I'm Amelia Brook,

a painter based between the UK and Riyadh, working mainly in large-scale acrylic alongside collage and oil pastel. My work interrogates the imagery surrounding women in social media and mass media, the visual language of a turbo-consumer culture that simultaneously empowers and consumes its subjects.

My work begins with the aesthetics of social media: women in moments of leisure and self-presentation, curating their own visibility, and the objects and backdrops that populate that world. I dissect and reframe these through collage and paint, approaching each piece as an act of aesthetic investigation. The women in my work exist in tension, confident and consumed, controlling their image while being controlled by the platforms that distribute it.

Having grown up alongside social media, it shaped how I understood visibility, desirability, and what it meant to be looked at as a young woman. This is something I still think about: what I post, how it will land, whether I look the right amount of effortless. It is exhausting. And I am not separate from it.

My practice is my attempt to disentangle myself from something I am still inside. To take these images apart and ask: who does this serve? What does it cost?

I work on large-scale canvases finished in high-gloss varnish, with saturated colour: electric blues against vibrant oranges, deep pinks colliding with rich greens. The gloss is deliberate. It mirrors the polished perfection of social media imagery, so the surface itself becomes part of the question.

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Education

2021  BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University

2018  Diploma in Art & Design, Foundation Studies, UCA Farnham

Group Exhibitions

2026  Into The Blue, New House Art Space, Guildford

2025  Nothing Ever Happens Here, New House Art Space, Guildford

2024  In The Midnight Hour, New House Art Space, Guildford

2022  Flux Exhibition, Design District, London

2021  01/BLUE, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston

2021  Oh No! Where's our show?, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham

2021  Let Me Just Enjoy This, Twitchel, Nottingham

2021  IDENTITY, The Holy Art, Online

2020  Off The Wall, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

2020  Sensorium, Double Vision 2020, Online

2018  Foundation Exhibition, UCA Studios, Farnham

2017  Pop-up Cut-up, Oxfam, Farnham

Curated Exhibitions

2020  Double Vision 2020, Online

2017  Pop-up Cut-up, Oxfam, Farnham

Publications

2021  Volume 01: Blue, The X-Collab (digital publication)

Collections

Private collections in New York, London and across the UK