Wiradjuri people
Born 1970, Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Brook Andrew's project for APT8 represents the intervention of art practice into the conventions of museum display. Several of Andrew's recent major installations and graphic works are inspired by patterns found on dendroglyphs (carved trees) and shields specific to his mother's Wiradjuri nation (in New South Wales). In Intervening Time 2015, Andrew has applied his contemporary hypnotic pattern in black over the existing wall colours of three Australian Collection galleries, and installed among the Collection his six-part 2012 installation Time.

Presented as a ground against which the Collection has been rehung, Andrew's wall design asserts its presence in the historical and contemporary narratives that shape our understanding of Australian landscape, people and culture. Brook Andrew collaborated with QAGOMA curatorial staff in the realisation of this project. The historical narrative and display he encountered in the three galleries has been changed only slightly, through the inclusion of international works of historical Nepalese and Indian art, in addition to images representing states of conflict by Goya, Warhol and Hirschfeld Mack. Intervening Time proposes a more layered, complex consideration of the encounters between indigenous and other cultures.