Brooke Thompson's drawings and prints are an emotional and existential response to water encountered at its origin: the pond and swamp, gleaming, enclosed worlds, the river and ocean, majestic expressions of life in flux. The matrices of her work develop through a process of automatism, catalysed by the rhythms of her surroundings. Brooke Thompson has a Bachelor Fine Arts (Hons) from the National Art School and is a current candidate for a Masters of Fine Arts (major printmaking) from the College of Fine Arts (University of New South Wales). Over the last ten years she has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. In 2013 she has been shortlisted for the Waverley Art Prize and Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and worked at the National Art School Studio at Hill End.