Pauline Brooke 1960s found metal sculpture
Found metal sculpture attributed to Pauline Brooke, England, 1960s.
Brooke made sculptures from found pieces of metal from scrapyards and her husband’s metal furniture factory. In 1965 she staged an exhibition called ‘Random Sculpture’ in an empty shop on Berwick Street, Soho in London.
Reviewing the show G.S. Whittet in Studio International described, ‘the objects […] recognised by her as having some intrinsic merit in their design and cleaned, arranged and mounted so that in effect they competed with the deliberately fashioned sculptures by artists who used scrap metal for their own ends.’ In The Times, Edward Lucie-Smith summarises, ‘By selecting this object, and, moreover, by mounting it in such a way that its qualities are emphasized, the artist […] has imposed order where none existed’.
Kettle’s Yard’s in Cambridge in 1966 has a Brooke sculpture in their collection.
Approx 120cm high.
Found metal sculpture attributed to Pauline Brooke, England, 1960s.
Brooke made sculptures from found pieces of metal from scrapyards and her husband’s metal furniture factory. In 1965 she staged an exhibition called ‘Random Sculpture’ in an empty shop on Berwick Street, Soho in London.
Reviewing the show G.S. Whittet in Studio International described, ‘the objects […] recognised by her as having some intrinsic merit in their design and cleaned, arranged and mounted so that in effect they competed with the deliberately fashioned sculptures by artists who used scrap metal for their own ends.’ In The Times, Edward Lucie-Smith summarises, ‘By selecting this object, and, moreover, by mounting it in such a way that its qualities are emphasized, the artist […] has imposed order where none existed’.
Kettle’s Yard’s in Cambridge in 1966 has a Brooke sculpture in their collection.
Approx 120cm high.
Found metal sculpture attributed to Pauline Brooke, England, 1960s.
Brooke made sculptures from found pieces of metal from scrapyards and her husband’s metal furniture factory. In 1965 she staged an exhibition called ‘Random Sculpture’ in an empty shop on Berwick Street, Soho in London.
Reviewing the show G.S. Whittet in Studio International described, ‘the objects […] recognised by her as having some intrinsic merit in their design and cleaned, arranged and mounted so that in effect they competed with the deliberately fashioned sculptures by artists who used scrap metal for their own ends.’ In The Times, Edward Lucie-Smith summarises, ‘By selecting this object, and, moreover, by mounting it in such a way that its qualities are emphasized, the artist […] has imposed order where none existed’.
Kettle’s Yard’s in Cambridge in 1966 has a Brooke sculpture in their collection.
Approx 120cm high.