Donald Brook

In his ambition to understand the relationship between art and works of art Donald Brook moved from sculptural practice to art theory. He was active in establishing the Tin Sheds workshop, vainly hoping at that time to sneak an art school into the Power Institute of Fine Arts. Later, as Professor of Visual Arts in the Flinders University in Adelaide, he established the Experimental Art Foundation with a similar impulse to reconcile current art world practices with the conceptual analysis of Anglo-American philosophy. Tim Burns was one of those artists who convinced him that, against the incoming tide of 'French' theory, it couldn't be done. Yet.