The Brocket Residency
Brocket Gallery gives artists the opportunity to spend time exploring, seeking inspiration and gaining valuable research time, at the gallery’s new rural outpost in the AONB North Pennines.
Working with local institutions to bring new audiences to their work, the Residency hosts an Open Studio and Artist Talk, and is followed by a solo exhibition of work in London and in partnering locations across the UK and abroad.
Spring 2024 |Cat Roissetter
EVENT Artist Talk & Brunch | Saturday 16 March 11am RSVP
London born Cat Roissetter works across painting, drawing and printmaking and is celebrated for her colourful, distinct works on paper.
Delicate reimaginings of intimate, dreamlike, and often nightmarish mis-en-scénes, draw from a diverse range of source material, including 18th century English portraiture, pornography, found photographs and children’s literature among other things. Colourful cherub-like forms, uneasy eroticism, and an abstraction developed through a unique use of materials, beautifully manifest in an ambiguous world of nostalgia, nuance and suggestion.
Brocket has presented two solo exhibitions by Cat Roissenter - painting exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus (2016), and a solo presentation of drawings based on three storybook narratives, JW Dunne & Other Stories (2018). She has also shown work in a number of group exhibitions.
Cat Roissetter is based in Sheffield, UK.
Spring 2023 | Jake Garfield
EVENT Artist Talk & Brunch | Saturday 22 April 10.30am RSVP
Gallery Director’s Lizzie & Jack presented Jake’s work with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair as a solo exhibition in summer 2022 during Mayfair Art Weekend, and subsequently previewed his monumental woodcut, Man Wrestling An Angel (2022) at the Fair in November.
Jake is a London-based artist, working primarily with printmaking. He is a tutor at the Royal Drawing School and leads workshops with the Royal Academy. His work lives in public and private collections including The Royal Collection, Pallant House, The Victoria & Albert Museum and The British Museum.
Summer 2022 | Liorah Tchiprout
London based Liorah Tchiprout joined us on our first summer residency at our North Pennines studio where she very much connected with the silence and landscape around her, in stark contrast to the white noise of Kings Cross.
Both her open studio afternoon and Artist talk drew a wonderful crowd and a number of new Tchiprout collectors. Together with the gallery Directors, Liorah worked on developing her painting technique as a progression from her recent, celebrated, large-scale monotypes.
By transferring her painterly style and application from ink on metal, to oils on to gesso, the material could work in the same way, with the smooth surface hosting the layers of paint.
The subsequent body of work evolved in to Liorah’s first London solo exhibition, All Things Are Kneeling, at a beautiful space off Pimlico Road, Belgravia, where alcoves and initmite spaces leant themselves to reading her poetic paintings. Within the basement of the space, Liorah presented a large scale installation, introducing audiences to her puppets.
Spring 2022 | Eleanor May Watson
Eleanor May Watson joined us in March 2022 in Residence at our North Pennine outpost where we were able to enjoy site visits to Belsay Hall and Bowes Museum.
We also hosted an Open Studio and Artist Brunch & Talk where we welcomed many new admirers and collectors of her work. You can watch our Artist talk here. Eleanor is in conversation with gallery Director, Lizzie Glendinning, in front of a large scale mural created by the artist in 2020 for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Eleanor’s subsequent exhibition, Untold Openings, was held at Fitzrovia Chapel, London 28 June - 01 July 2022. Further projects from partnerships established during her time in the North East are also underway.