Edmond Brooks-Beckman (b. 1987) is a painter based in London. He received his BA in Fine Art Painting from Brighton University in 2009. Having completed a PGCE at the IOE in 2016 and worked within secondary education as an Art and Design teacher, he progressed to foundation course leader at the Hampstead School of Art where he currently teaches. He obtained his MA in Fine Art Painting at The Royal College of Art (2021-2023) and won the Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize in 2023.
Through his process of addition and removal, Brooks-Beckman creates heavily worked surfaces featuring pictographic, textual and abstract elements. Through his work, the artist delves into the potential of formal components–line, colour, composition, while also generating references which are personal, cultural and historical and often in response to his Jewish identity.
Brooks-Beckman his debut solo exhibition, 'Spoken in ochre' at Frestonian Gallery in London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include; 'I Don’t Paint What I See' at Berntson Bhattacharjee in London (2023); 'Echoes across surfaces' at Duarte Sequiera in Braga (2023); 'Part 2' at Alma Pearl in London (2023); 'Gallery Opening' at Des Baines in London (2022); 'Take the day out in baskets' at St Chads Project in London (2022); 'Breaking News' at VO Curations in London (2022).