Cathie Brooker
Profile
For me Art is A esthetics R eflection T herapy.
I appreciate constructive criticism.
When I was 17 years old I won a scholarship to go to Art School and I started photography at Newcastle University. It was my first real social and creative experience and it felt like heaven-on-earth.
After Uni I was an Art and Photography Teacher. I took a year off in 1987, and backpacked around Europe and Egypt, living a dream. Since then I have been an Art and Photography teacher and a professional photographer in Sydney. I am currently doing an Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
My ART photography allowed me to express my emotions and document my life style. Some of the photographs I’ve put here come from my era around 1990, the “Raging 90s”.
during a time in Sydney when touching, kissing, hugs, animals and flowers could happily exist for me. A world far beyond my cattle property childhood. Some come from other facets of experiencing life.
As part of my professional photographic life I have sold my cards and photographs from Melbourne to Cairns.
Highlights of Career
7 solo & over 60 Group shows over 25 years
Official Photographer for Dalai Lama
Marcia Hine’s wedding
Opera House Exhibition- “Rage to See”
Sydney Olympic Games 2000
TV- Dr Feel Good
– Sex Lifes
Most of original Art Work sold.
Look up my poem to my father’s memory on youtube, John Brooker.
None of the images or writing I
display here belong to the Public Domain. All images and writing are
copyright © Cathie Brooker. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering,
displaying or redistribution of any of these images, in any format or using
any medium, without written permission from the artist, is strictly
prohibited.
Purity Erotic Photography By Cathie Brooker Book Preview
Groups
Cathie Brooker is a member of ! Inspired Art !, 1 In The Beginning - Ancient Practices, A Spiritual Walk, All About Your Best Work, All things Egyptian, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Alternative Christmas Images, Alternative Process and Experimental Photography, Art Inspired by Dreams, Art of Erotic Visions, Astronomy, Black and White Photography, Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, Blue Room, Body Painting Photography, Bodyscapes, Buddha, Cards: Best of Your Best, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Creative Inspirations - [2pw], Current Issues, DaDa Land, Dawn and Dusk Light, Dearly Departed, Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Drawing Day, Equine Art and Photography, Fantasy Art, Farms and Countryside, Fine Art approaches to Figure and Face, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , Gay Men, Glamour, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, Gods and Goddesses, Green!, Hard Science Rocks, Horse and Rider , In the Pink 50% pink, Infrared Photography, Inspiring Blend (Words IN Your Image), Light and Reflection 1/24, Live, Love, Dream: , Love & Romance , Mandala, Mans Best Friend's (Dogs only), Mature Woman, Mermaids and mystic creatures, Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Newcastle NSW, Lake Macquarie & Surrounding Region, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day (Dogs only), Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Photography Critique and Advice, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Religious Art & Photography, Rural NSW, Selective Coloring, Self Portrait, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings, Something To Say, Spiritual Art, Surrealism *MAX 4 PER DAY*, Sydney, Symbolism in Art, The Artistic Nude, The Fine Art of Photography, The Healing Journey, The L Word, The Male Nude, The Scavenger Hunt, THE SISTERHOOD, Theatrical and Staged Photography, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, War , Waterfall Photography, We Rock: Musical Instrument Art, WMG, Woman Appreciation and Writing Workshop.
Journal Entries
New cat calendar for 2010
Posted about 1 month ago.
Purity- New Erotic book by Cathie Brooker
Posted 2 months ago.
Victorian Bush Fire Appeal
Posted 7 months ago.
Making money with Art
Posted 8 months ago, 5 comments so far.
Sculpture Commission
Posted about 1 year ago.
I stopped Smoking with Dignity- It didn't work
Posted about 1 year ago, 9 comments so far.
Annie Sprinkle Lost.
Posted about 1 year ago, 10 comments so far.
Censorship Laws- take a stand.
Posted about 1 year ago, 23 comments so far.
New Beginnings
Posted about 1 year ago, 2 comments so far.
Art
Writing
Rook Hill Spell 2008 (from painting)
Dear Gaia / I, Cathie daughter of Dawn call upon you Goddess
They shoot Gnostics don’t they! 2007
She arrived on our Australian shores before we did. Crawled out of the sea to dominate a scene, a landscape. She carried her secret within. She wasn’t the spotted native kind, that would take time.
Penis Prayer Sestina
Walk toward the light and discard the cross. / Take up the triangle with your hands / and make a prayer so the Goddess is amused with the penis.
In the Future - The Year 3NB (NB Stands for New Beginning)
“Wow Jena, did that last history lecture blow your mind?” Penna said as she sipped her cappuccino in the university court yard. / “It certainly did, Sister Girl I had to turn down my anger dial…
Where is the magic?
Sensitivity hides in the asylum. / Normality drives the bus. / Where have all the fairies gone?
I Must Stop Loving You
Throw the heart / like a cricket ball / against the wall / Splat, / leaving red kisses on the white.
