Roo Abrook Artist Biography
Roo Abrook is a figurative artist heavily inspired by Pre-Raphaelite portraits, the Dadaism and Surrealist art movements, whilst also combining old literature and femineity into her artworks.
Roo Abrook beautifully depicts mainly women and children by using disregarded vintage Victorian photographs. The composition of Roo’s modern portraits portray an overall feeling of natural strength and beauty mixed with the fragility of the brief and every changing life that we all share.
Within her work, she investigates and poses self-reflecting questions about the subject matter of beauty, youth, and time. Roo aims to challenge the ideology of beauty. As femininity from the past has been consciously re-contextualised to provoke thoughts about today's media culture that is obsessed with superficial youth. And with the increasing pressures to look beautiful in society, and for women to meet society’s current beauty demands, it is hard to keep one’s individuality intact. Roo is trying to remind us, that individuality is beautiful.
Roo has produced artwork for record releases, gallery shows and original commissions for well-known musicians’ homes, such as, Liam Gallagher, Nicole Appleton (All Saints) and Andy Bell (formerly Oasis, presently Ride).
There is an individual and creative use of many mediums which all come together to create Roo's lovely pieces. Her work and concepts showcase her rare creative depth, which makes her work so unique and collectable. Her style and vison appeal to a very interesting audience, attracting buyers from all over the world to generate a global demand for Roo’s art pieces.
“I use Antique book pages within my work, unwanted with little value that I feel have a beauty and combine these with contemporary materials such as screen prints, digital prints, photocopies (that’s retro now) and neon spray paints to play with timelines. I am continually developing these timelines by investigating beauty, time, youth and ageing.”