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Hanging with wicked artist @jimlbrook at The Top 100!

You love art. You want to know what artists I think you should invest a little of your time, energy, heart and maybe cash in? Well here are a very fine bunch all on display in an actual real life exhibition in my neck of the woods, Brixton. I selected 10 artists and some other good artworld souls selected their faves and combined there are 100 great works all for sale. It’s an online auction and can be seen in person from today, more in my stories - support artists. It’s good for you!

My picks:
@sarahmapleart
@amybeager
@dawn_beckles
@tchiprout
@elizahopewell and @theodorevass
@jimlbrook
@gommie_poem
@sara.lavelle
@ginasodenartist
@miranda_forrester

#brightyoungthings #top100auctioncollective #artaddict #buyingart #contemporaryartstars #supportartists #howtobuyart

@dn_brixton @theauctioncollective

Also thanks to @workingclasscreativesdatabase for introducing me to Jim’s work!

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Past few months on film 🤎🤍

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Really chuffed to announce the chosen recipients for our upcoming residency with @yspsculpture

WCCD members @ratattaxx & @jimlbrook will be taking over our Instagram over the October month to say a bit about themselves, their work and their time at YSP.

Massive Thankyou to Yorkshire Sculpture Park for this amazing opportunity and their ongoing support.

Remember to have post notifications on to keep updated - sometimes the algorithm hates us 👻

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Genius work by @jimlbrook I acquired the last tea towel he made from this body of work and eagerly await what he does next. We need to support artists now more than ever, what they (YOU) do is vital.

Thanks @workingclasscreativesdatabase for introducing me to his work.

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Rich tea, 2021.

@jimlbrook

The 1977 firemen's strike in Dewsbury (Don’t cross the picket), orange, milk, orange. The same toilet since 1983, them Ladders have seen some graft. Sodden towel and budget cooking served on gingham once again. “The legs are about to go on that chair!” I shout to my gran. Three carpet grips, waterproof jacket and my gran's gardening shoes (can’t wear them for best) I’ve had an obsession with this vac since about 2013. A brick from the old wall, a brick from the new wall, a brick from the house and some broken one from the garden. Al av just a splash in mi tea! Leave tea bag in. Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms is on; Gran asks, “do you want a rich tea”.

Published by @tidepress
Currently on show at @village_leeds (link in my bio to the full install)

Last two images are words/an essay by @lechappy

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VEGAS OF THE NORTH 🤩

#RP @jimlbrook VEGAS OF THE NORTH (ode to James Corrigan)

Satin banner made with inspiration from original posters and signs.

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Gran and grandad first date was here (last photo) the Vegas for the pit and mill workers of Batley, Dewsbury and the surrounding areas.

#lasvegas #lasvegasparty #northyorkshire #vegasofthenorth #workingclassartists #woolmill #batley

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Obviously a bunch of fake red roses, 2020.
@jimlbrook

When Margaret Thatcher died mining communities within south and West Yorkshire came to the streets to burn effigies of her along with what people would class as “folk art” being paraded around the villages. To the people who faced the struggle of thatchers rule this was really the nail in the coffin for them, a time to let the resent first the person who ripped apart so many communities and demonised the lives and culture of working class people.

Now, today we face such strain on the working class with labour not even wanting to acknowledge class politics, socialism or its trade union roots, as the Labour Party leader constantly turns there back on strikes, workers rights and the working class. In the post thatcher generation her work continues within new labour, new labour are now the scabs.

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Jim Brook (b. 1995, Dewsbury, UK) lives and works in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. In 2020 he graduated with an MA from Leeds Arts University, having previously completed his undergraduate study at the institution in 2018.Brook uses the power of the ready-made, sculpture, and photography to probe the complex realities of lived experience and class restraints. In his work, he strives to explore the tensions and contradictions that arise from social mobility, the struggles of the proletariat in a capitalist society, and the significance of class identity and solidarity. Through his art, he hopes to provide a voice and a platform for those who are often disregarded and silenced as well as gaining a better understanding of his own experience and life. Recent exhibitions include: ‘To Have and To Have Not’ at Village Books (Solo Exhibition, Leeds, 2022); ‘2:A’ at WDT Gallery (Solo Exhibition, Middlesbrough, 2022); ‘Rich Tea’ at Village Books (Solo Exhibition, Leeds, 2021); ‘This Way For Fun!’ at Village Books (Solo Exhibition, Leeds, 2020); ‘Shot Pint Riot’ a Studio 1.1 (Group Exhibition, London, 2023); ‘Raum, Zeit -> Irgendwas’ at Neue Archaik (Group Exhibition, Hanover, 2021). Recent publication include: ‘Grass Fed Cows’ (Published by Salt n Pepper, 2021); ‘Rich Tea’ Published by Tide Press, 2021); ‘This Way For Fun!’ (Published by Ceremony Press, 2020).

Photo by @_wesfoster_

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Fish & Chips (mosaic) 2020.
Kitchen tiles, grout, concrete.
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Ey up, am @jimlbrook from a lovely place in West Yorkshire called Thornhill (just outside Dewsbury) Where a lot of my work is made, especially within and around the house I’ve lived in with my gran since I was a bairn.

Another artist on the dole 2020-2021

I live in an old pit village that at one time had 4 pits on go that at one point employed many of the men and children of the village and surrounding areas. By 1971 we were just left with one, this then closed for good leaving the employed unemployed. This made the workers move to pits around the area and the younger people hope for new trades within the local areas. 1984 came with the abolishment of the working class under thatcher rule, bringing more and more struggle to the working class of Yorkshire (and the north). By the late 80s/early 90s there was no industry where I live, coal mining had gone and been outsourced with cheaper labour, our famous textile industry had just the same done to it and our steel works closed with lack of local power. Leaving my generation told at school to get a trade or go to uni, I tried to get a trade as I went to building school but dropped out for art school a year later. Now here I am 25 with a arts degree and masters, unemployed and on the dole after playing the Tory/new labour game of try hard and you will succeed within a capitalist society. What we once depended on, what built our culture and shaped the lives of generations has gone and we are left in a worse position than ever.

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Vegas of the north (ode to James corrigan) 2020.

Hand made satin banner.

@jimlbrook

Known as the Vegas of the north, Batley variety club hosted some of the best performers of the 60s/70s in the middle of the industrial north. A club for the working class, for the mill workers, steel workers and miners of Batley, dewsbury and near by places.

The second photo is of my gran and grandad on there first date. She told me it’s lucky they stayed together because at the time there was a postal strike (1971) and it took them 6 month to get the photo.

(It’s now a JD gym)

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