Brooke van Ruiswyk

Brooke van Ruiswyk
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Biography:

Brooke van Ruiswyk is an emerging artist based in Launceston, Tasmania. Van Ruiswyk’s practice depicts her close connection to the Tasmanian landscape, where her family has lived and worked as farmers for many generations. 

Her paintings are delicately executed using oil paint on canvas through layers and detail. A variety of brushes and palette knives are used to create rich textures and subtle gradients that seamlessly work together to capture a moody ambience. 

The cooler seasons can feel prolonged and evoke feelings of isolation and loneliness. Van Ruiswyk embraces this experience as a way to truly see and appreciate her surroundings, believing that there is beauty and spiritual growth to be found in moments of solitude.

‘There is a deep connection to place, but also a sense of misplacement and humbling awareness of merely passing through. I am constantly trying to absorb and document my experience, taking photographs and capturing memories that I can then collage together in the studio. The resulting artworks are mostly fiction in nature; the psychological weight of the loneliness and isolation manifests itself as vast farmland under grey ominous skies.’ 

 

 

Résumé:

Solo Exhibitions

2025 ‘Memories from the Land’, Manyung Gallery Malvern

2024 'The Places We Know', Manyung Gallery Malvern

 

Recent Group Exhibitions

2025 ‘Summer Salon’, Poimena Gallery

2025 ‘Summer Art Soiree’, Manyung Gallery Sorrento

2024 ‘Peninsula Panoramas’, Manyung Gallery Flinders

2024 ‘The Collector’s Showcase’, Manyung Gallery Malvern

2024 TATA Exhibition, Devonport Regional Gallery

2024 ‘Spring Fever’, Manyung Gallery Art & Design

2024 Summer Salon, Poimena Gallery

2023 Northern Exposure, Poimena Art Gallery

2023 TATA Exhibition, QVMAG, Salamanca Art Centre

2023 ‘Peninsula Panoramas’, Manyung Gallery Flinders

2022 The Butterfly Effect Art Auction, Poimena Art Gallery

2017 Body of Work, Poimena Art Gallery

2013 Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Sawtooth Gallery

2013 Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre

2010 Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Salamanca Arts Centre, 

2010 The Atrium Gallery

Education

2010 Current Art Teacher, various Tasmanian High Schools

2010 Bachelor of Teaching, University of Tasmania,

2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, School of Art,

University of Tasmania, Hobart

2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art, University of

Tasmania, Hobart

 

Commendations & Awards:

2025 Painting featured on ‘Selling the OC’ on Netflix

2024 Winner of People’s Choice Award, Henry Jones Art Prize

2024 Finalist in the Glover Prize

2024 Finalist in the Tidal.24 Art Award

2024 Finalist in the Bay of Fires Art Prize

2023 Finalist in the Glover Prize

2023 Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award Salon Des Refuses

2022 Finalist in the Henry Jones Art Prize

2022 Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award

2022 Finalist in The Doyles Art Award 

2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery

2009 Zonta International Award for Young Emerging Artist

2007 Deans Roll of Excellence, University of Tasmania