BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Geoffrey
Drake-Brockman has been exhibiting since
1986 with shows in New York,
Perth,
Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Denmark, and
London. He has held major exhibitions
at the Morris Museum in metropolitan New
York (2018), Singapore Art Museum (2010), the
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
(2007), the National
Gallery of Australia in 2005 and in 2001,
the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
(2004), the Biennale of Electronic Arts
Perth (2002), Collaborative
Concepts in New York (2002), and Sculpture
by the Sea (Bondi, Cottesloe, and
Aarhus/Denmark; 2001 - 2014). His
large-scale installation "SKY" featured at
Brisbane Curiocity 2019 and at the Perth
Winter Arts Festival of 2017. Solo
exhibitions include Moana
Chambers (2022), Moores Building
Contemporary Art (2021), Linton and Kay
(2016),
Goddard de Fiddes (1997),
Fremantle Arts Centre
(1993)
and The Hooper Gallery in London (1991).
Geoffrey has undertaken numerous large-scale
public art commissions including the eleven
metre tall interactive robotic artwork
“Totem” (2012) at the Perth Arena, an interactive
LED matrix "Surface" (2016) at Perth Childrens Hospital, the
external Sculpture "One" (2019) for the
University of Canberra, and a kinetic work
titled “Readwrite" (2014) for the NEXTDC
Data Centre in Malaga. Geoffrey won the
Guinness Collection contemporary automata
Best in Show and Peoples Choice awards in
2018, the National Gallery of Australia
Sculpture Prize Highly Commended Award in
2001 and the Peoples’ Choice Award in
2005, the Princess Margaret Search for
Genius Art Award in 2003, and the Sir Charles Gardiner
Art Award in 1993.
Geoffrey
Drake-Brockman 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 trained as a
painter at Art School and his early work was
figurative, colourist, painting. Since 2000
his 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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Floribots,
Moana Chambers, Perth
2021
Simulacra Lounge,
Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery,
Fremantle
2016 Looking
Glass, Linton and Kay Galleries,
Perth
2010 Floribots,
Art Garden,
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2007 Floribots,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2002 Clownhead,
(collab. R. Kuhaupt) The Breadbox, Perth
2001 Geoffrey,
(collab. R. Kuhaupt) The Verge, Perth
1997 The Identity
Appliance, Goddard de Fiddes
Gallery, Perth
1993 Augmentations,
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
1991 The Hooper
Gallery, London, UK
1987 Greenhill Galleries,
Perth
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2020
Twist,
Riverena
Building,
Rivervale,
Perth, Exterior
Sculpture
2020
Orbs
& Nets,
Brabham School,
Kinetic
Sculptures
2019
Optic Alley
&
Essentialiser,
Blazing Swan,
Interactive
Laser
Installations
2020 Kites,
Sheoak Grove School, Kinetic
Sculptures
2019 Passage
Through a Portal, Shenton
College, Exterior Sculpture
2019 One,
University of Canberra, Exterior
Sculpture
2019 SKY,
Curiocity - World Science Festival
Brisbane, Opening Event,
Interactive Installation
2017
SKY, Perth Winter Arts
Festival Main Activation,
Interactive Installation
2016
Surface, Perth Children's Hospital,
Interactive Light Sculpture
2016 Colour Collider,
Cecil Andrews School Interactive Light
Sculpture
2015 Interlace,
City of Joondalup, Interactive Water
Sculpture
2015 Curl,
Carter Lane Park, Subiaco - Exterior
Sculpture
2015 Luminous,
Chinatown, Perth, Exterior Interactive
Light Sculpture
2014 Rain on Water,
Butler Train Station – Interior Sculpture
2014 Readwrite,
NEXTDC Malaga Data Centre – Exterior
Robotic Interactive Sculpture
2012 Spiral,
Northbridge Police Complex – Exterior
Sculpture
2012 Totem, The
Perth Arena – Interactive Sculpture and
Laser Installation
2010 Headspace –
Interactive Sculpture for Christ Church
Grammar School
2009 Counter,
Transart – Interactive Sculpture in
Central Perth
2008 Autobot,
Automotive TAFE – Interactive
Robotic/Optical
Sculptures
2008 Optic Alley
– Interactive Laser Installation in
Central Perth
2007 Anemone,
3X3 Forrest Place – Interactive Sculpture
for Central Perth
2005 Transfiction –
Laser Sculpture on Parliamentary Triangle
Axis, Canberra
2004 LaserWrap –
Permanent Laser Sculpture on the ACT Heath
Building, Canberra
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Black and White,
Metamorphosis Gallery, Perth
2021 We are Nature,
Kamile Gallery, Perth
2019 Weather the Weather,
SciArt Initiative, New York Hall of
Science, NY, USA
2018
Instrumental,
Mundaring Arts Centre, Perth
2018
Curious
Characters, The Morris
Museum, NJ, USA
2017 Note to
Self, Mundaring Arts Centre,
WA
2016
Machines and Makers, Mundaring Arts
Centre, WA
2014 Sculpture by the
Sea, Bondi, Sydney, NSW
2014 Sculpture by the
Sea, Cottesloe, WA
2012 City of Joondalup
Invitation Art Exhibition
2011 Sculpture by the
Sea, Aahus, Denmak (Europe)
2011 Sculpture by the
Sea, Cottesloe, WA
2010 Sculpture by the Sea,
Cottesloe, WA
2009 Out of the Box,
Holmes a Count Gallery
2006 Sculpture by the
Sea, Cottesloe, WA
2005 National Sculpture
Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra
2005 Sculpture by the
Sea, Cottesloe, WA
2004 Helen Lempriere
National Sculpture Prize exhibition,
Melbourne
2003 Luminous Image,
Collaborative Concepts Art Gallery, New
York, USA
2002 Sculpture from Sea,
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art
Gallery, Sydney
2002 Sculpture by the
Sea, Bondi, Sydney
2002 Mnemotech,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Perth
2002 Biennale of
Electronic Arts, Perth
2001 National Sculpture
Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra
2001 Sculpture by the
Sea, Bondi, Sydney
2000 Suburb,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
(PICA)
2000 A Multi-Story City,
City of Perth Invitation Art Award
1999 Shaky Ground,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
(PICA)
1992 Pulit8, Pulit Artspace,
London, UK
1989 New Works, Greenhill
Galleries, Perth
1987 Triyptych,
Praxis, Fremantle
1986 Sixpack, Praxis,
Fremantle
QUALIFICATIONS
2007 Orlan
Post-Graduate Masterclass, Institute of
Advanced Studies, UWA
1994 Master
of Arts (Visual Arts), Curtin University
School of Art
1991 Life Drawing, Camden
Arts Centre, London, UK
1985 Bachelor of Science
(Computer Science), University of Western
Australia
AWARDS
2018 Best in Show, Guinness
Collection automata exhibition, the Morris
Museum, USA
2018 Peoples Choice,
Guinness Collection automata exhibition, the
Morris Museum, USA
2015 Best Paper, Art and
Design at Cyberworlds Conference, Uppsala
University, Sweden
2005 People’s Choice Award,
National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of
Australia
2004 National
Exemplar, Year of the Built Environment
2003 Princess Margaret
Search for Genius Art Award
2001 Highly Commended,
National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of
Australia
1993 Sir Charles Gairdner Annual
Art Award
PUBLICATIONS
2021
DARROCH, Jay, Flowers,
robots, time, and perspective,
Magazine6000
2021 FERGUSON, Holly,
Robotic Flower Bloom,
Magazine6000
2019
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Geoffrey, Popping
Houses, Aesthetica Magazine
2019 SABEERAH,
External
Cybernetics, Art and
Electronic Media
2018 REED, Megan, The
Power of Simulation, Art of the
Times, Fall Issue
2017 ZINDERMAN, Carly, Man,
Machine, Viewer, Object, Just Luxe,
28 June
2018 SHIRK, Laura, The
Creator vs. The Created, Bellus Magazine,
25 April
2017 DUSTMAN, Emily A,
Drake-Brockman - Cybernetics Artist,
E-Squared, Issue #3
2017 DRAKE-BROCKMAN,
Geoffrey, Mirror
Beings, Digimag 76
2015 DRAKE-BROCKMAN,
Geoffrey, Created
Beings, Cyberworlds
2015 SASAKI, Kasuo, Floribots
Robotics & Origami, Tokyo
University of Technology
2015
UEHARA, Kenneth, 30
Hypnotic Kinetic Sculptures You Can’t
Ignore, Hongkiat
2015 CAUSA, Emiliano, Invasión
Generativa, La Plata National
University of Argentina
2015 Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Drake-Brockman
2015 Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gdrakebrockman/videos
2013 BEVIS, Stephen,
Mechanical dancer a life work, The West
Australian. 19 April
2012 KLICH, Rosemary
& SCHEER, Edward , Multimedia
Performance, Palgrave Macmillan
2012 BEVIS, Stephen,
Totem Tribute to Robotics, The West
Australian. 5 November
2007 SPENCER, Ric, The
West Australian - Visual Arts. 10 Feb
2005 RICHARDSON, Elvis,
National
Gallery of Australia, 15 July 2005,
Artlink. Vol 25 no 4
2005 WARDEN, Ian, The
Canberra Times. 15 July, p3
2004 FIRTH, Dianne &
BARNEY, Jane, Landscape – Institute of
Landscape Architecture
2003 GENNOCIO, Ben, Using
Illumination to Truly See, New York
Times Arts Review. 28 Dec
2002 ERICKSON, Dorothy,
Mnemotech
: sense + scape + time + memory,
Artlink. Vol 22 no 4
2002 GRALTON, Beatrice,
Craft Arts International. Vol54, p70
2001 BROMFEILD, David,
The West Australian. 24 March
ACADEMIC
2017
Guest Lecturer, Architecture and Design,
Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
2016 External Supervisor Honours
Project, Machine
Vision, Mechatronic Engineering, UWA
2015 External
Supervisor
Honours Project,
Realtime Control, Mechatronic
Engineering, UWA
2014 Guest
Lecturer in Futuremaking,
School of Architecture, University
of Western Australia
2013
External Assessor, Spatial
Robotics, Mechanical Engineering Honours
Project, UWA
2010
Professional
Practicum Mentor, Visual Arts,
Curtin University of Technology
1996 Adjunct Research
Fellow, Visual Arts, Curtin
University of Technology
PRESENTATIONS
2018
Cybernetics Art
& Created Beings,
Automatacon, The Morris Museum, USA
2015
Created Beings,
Cyberworlds, Uppsala
University,
Sweden
2015 Keynote, Art+Science,
Technology, Engineering &
Mathematics, ArtsEdge Lectures,
WA
2015 Keynote, Hack
The Festival, Perth International Arts
Festival
2013
Created Beings TEDx Talk: http://www.tedxperth.org/created-beings
2011
The Coppelia
Project, Symbiotica, University of
Western Australia
2005 Physical,
Logical, Vurtual,
Mybridge to Matrix Lectures,
National Gallery of Australia
PROFESSIONAL
Member - Artsource (Max)
Member - The National Association for the
Visual Arts |