Brock. Q. PIPER takes an anthropological approach to his compositions. His work reflects the mythology and the mythos of travel and of the people that are intertwined within the artist’s journey.
Brock’s works are as much about the viewer as they are the historical and cultural narratives woven into the work; an outsider’s observations of cultural ambiguity and the mythological landscapes that invite you into the world the artist travels through. Surreal abstractions of memory and the role that travel has on the multidisciplinary artist practice.
Brock uses very thin layers of oil paint to create an image that alludes to a sense of both creation and destruction. An aesthetic that plays with illuminating and obscuring elements hidden within; layers are eroding as they are being replaced.
His work employs a deep understanding of colour theory and oil glazing techniques to have the work evolve and to reveal hidden elements, only visible through the changing light of the day.
COLLECTIONS
Private and corporate collections Australia and The United States of America
RESIDENCIES
Mexico City - January, February 2020
Linden House St Kilda November 2019 - November 2020
Los Angeles - Eastside International - January 2019
AWARDS and PRIZES
Winner - 2021 George Hicks Victorian Artist Society Contempoary Art Award AUS
Finalist - Contemporary Art Awards 2019 - Queensland Government - AUS
Finalist - EGAG WRAP 2018 - AUS
Finalist - Agendo Art Prize 2017 – AUS
Judge - George Hicks Victorian Artist Society Contemporary Art Award 2019 - AUS
Judge - Victorian Young Artist of the Year 2019 - AUS
COLLABORATIONS
Bress Wines x Brock Q. PIPER 2020 Pinot Noir
Avis - The Art of Discovery 2019
2017 Yours and Owls Festival Main Stage design
Slowerdawn Textiles
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
Artist Interview - Cornah Willis January 2021
QANTAS Magazine June 2019
Avis - The Art of Discovery 2019
TASMANIAN EXAMINER May 12 2019
Tumut and Adelong Times May 2019
The road less travelled: The tough choices behind the art of Brock Q. Piper 27 Feb 2019 Andrew McIlroy
LIBERAL ECLECTIC July 2018 : The Valley – Below: Acts of defiance
WISH MAGAZINE JUNE 2018
1340Art International Art Magazine Q1 2018
LIBERAL ECLECTIC Jan 2018 : BROCK Q PIPER: Caught in another realm…
VOUGE LIVING JAN-FEB 2018
EDUCATION
Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts VCA Melbourne University (2020-)
Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts with a Major in painting 2006 - 2008
TEACHING
Melbourne Art Republic
EST 2020
Box Hill Institute
2020 - present
Victorian Artist Society
2019 - present
Chisholm Institute
2019 - 2020
Melbourne Polytechnic
2018 – 2020
Melbourne Studio of ART
2017- 2020
ART Encounters
2017- 2020
