Dr Gareth Brookes
I am a practice-based artist researcher using graphic narratives to produce insights into issues around embodiment and trace, the technological remediation of materiality, narratology and genre, archives and generative technology.
I gained a PhD from Central Saint Martins, UAL in 2024. My thesis was titled Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics, and was supported by a Techne AHRC scholarship. I will be undertaking a Visiting Artist Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, exploring the archives of Michael Field held in the Bodleian Library to produce graphic narratives responding to their radical intersubjective writing practice.
I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
My research interests include materiality and embodiment, small press and underground comics, conversations between fine art and comics, and the affect of technology on narrative drawing.
Between 2014 -2021 I was a Lecturer in Foundation Studies, City & Guilds School of Art London.
I have been an invited visiting lecturer at the following institutions: Girton College University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, Ghent University Belgium, Falmouth School of Art, University of Gloucestershire, Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, University of York St John, University of Viborg, Denmark, Lincoln University, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, University of Norwich, University of Plymouth, and the Royal Collage of Art, London.
Materiality and metalepsis in handmade small press alternative comics, Studies in Comics 14.2, pp. 239-262 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00109_1
Book Review: Drawing from the archives, comics memory and the contemporary graphic novel by Benoît Crucifix, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2024.2302444
Book Review: Ilan Manouach in Review – Critical Approaches To His Conceptual Comics International Journal of Comic Art (ISSN 1531-6793)
Stylistic co-existence and the chronotope in Stone Fruit and Onwards Towards our Noble Deaths, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 15.3, pp. 379-398, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2262001
Soaking as a method of representing memory across/between/through/against the illustrated page – Colouring In, Issue 3 - The Past, pp. 56-58 ISSN 2752-9533
Book Review: Szép, Eszter. Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020) ImageText Journal 14.1, n.pag. ISSN: 1549-6732
Book Review: Key Terms in Comics Studies, Erin La Cour, Simon Grennan and Rik Spanjers (eds) (2022) Studies in Comics Volume 13 Numbers 1 & 2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00087_5
Dwelling with Traumatic Memory through Embodied Drawing in the Structure of Graphic Novels - MHRA WORKING PAPERS IN THE HUMANITIES 17 On Forgetting - December 2022 pp.63 - 74
Published Graphic Novels
The Dancing Plague – SelfMadeHero (ISBN 9781910593981)
A Thousand Coloured Castles - Myriad Editions (ISBN 9780993563300)
The Black Project - Myriad Editions (ISBN 978190843420)
