Geoffrey Drake-Brockman has been exhibiting since 1986 with shows in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Denmark, New York and London.  He has had major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001 and in 2005, Singapore Art Museum (2010) The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (2002), The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, (2007) the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (2004), Sculpture by the Sea (Bondi, Cottesloe, and Aarhus/Denmark; (2001 - 2014), and Collaborative Concepts in New York (2002). Other solo exhibitions include Linton and Kay (2016), Goddard de Fiddes (1997) and The Hooper Gallery in London (1991). Geoffrey won the National Sculpture Prize Highly Commended Award in 2001 and the Peoples’ Choice Award in 2005.

Geoffrey was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1964 and is based in Perth, Western Australia. Geoffrey completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Western Australia in 1985 and a Master of Visual Arts at Curtin University in 1994. Geoffrey has undertaken a number of large-scale Public Art Commissions including the 11m tall robotic artwork “Totem” for the Perth Arena (2012), and an external kinetic work called “Readwrite (2014) for the NEXTDC Data Centre in Malaga. Geoffrey has received the Sir Charles Gardiner Art Award in 1993, the Princess Margaret Art Award in 2003 and the 1997 AIIA National Award for Excellence in Information Technology.

Geoffrey Drake-Brockman trained as a painter at Curtin University Art School and his early work was figurative, colourist, painting. Since 2000 Geoffrey’s work has been primarily sculptural and technology-enabled. The artist notes; “I am interested in the social impact of technology, a theme which I approach formally with geometric and colour based composition, as well as implementing electronic, interactive systems in my work. I seek to create autonomous works that are able to support unique, emergent, ongoing dialogues between viewer and art object”. Geoffrey sets out more detail on his conceptual basis in the talk he gave at TEDx 2013 in Perth, WA.