Nell Brookfield

Nell Brookfield is a London-based artist who was born in 1994 in London, England. She received her BSc in Anthropology from UCL in 2017 and later graduated from the Royal Drawing School's Drawing Year Programme in 2018. Brookfield spent a year living and studying at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

Her artwork is concerned with the emotional and physical spaces between people, particularly in moments of tension or intimacy, and the resulting feelings of alienation. Drawing on sight, imagination, and memory, Brookfield's work responds to the human and natural world around her. Her figures are depicted with a sense of tenderness and touch, but also with the potential for struggle and strife. She uses patterning as a tool to either mask or reveal human instincts of desire, frustration, and rejection, emphasizing the charged moments between her figures.

Brookfield's interest in observing and studying people and their cultures is reflected in her artistic practice, which allows her to playfully and honestly explore her surroundings. Her work fuses together memories and everyday experiences, and drawing serves as a way for her to make sense of both the world and herself.