Collection: Roo Abrook

Roo Abrook is a local artist producing contemporary mixed media collage using her own original drawings and paintings depicting mainly portraits of women and children. Within her work, she investigates and poses self-reflecting questions about the subject matter of beauty, youth, and time.

Original graphite studies often of Edwardian photographic postcards with lens-generated imagery of flora and fauna are developed using a combination of traditional and more experimental printing and mark-making techniques. Use of pattern, decoration, and adornment are introduced into works looking at beautification in its many forms. Roo combines found collaged papers and screen prints with acrylic paints, spray paints, pencils, pens, spray guns, varnishes, and finishes.