The Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to announce the seven emerging artists who will show new work as part of the 2013 Invites programme. Launched in 2012, Invites is a unique opportunity for artists without commercial gallery representation to produce a solo show in a dedicated project space at Zabludowicz Collection, London. Artists have been selected as a result of extensive studio visits and all shows will run for six weeks.

Ellen Mara De Wachter, Curator, Zabludowicz Collection says: ‘The Invites artists a unique and highly visible presence at an important stage in their career, just as they are beginning to gain recognition for their work. The artists we invite have strong practices, which we hope will grow from the opportunity to make new work and to gain exposure to public and critical attention. Invites is an important part of the Zabludowicz Collection’s activities and commitment to supporting artists.’

The Zabludowicz Collection believes the time during which an artist is not represented by a commercial gallery is significant for his or her practice, as it is a period when the artist can create without market pressures. Each exhibition of the Invites series results from an open-ended invitation to exhibit at the Zabludowicz Collection and is accompanied by curatorial support and access to material resources provided by the Collection.

Zabludowicz Collection Invites continues the Collection’s ethos of supporting emerging artists at key moments in their careers, beyond collecting. It aims to actively encourage development of artists’ practice by acquiring, commissioning and exhibiting in each of its three locations in London, New York and Sarvisalo, Finland.

Each instalment of Zabludowicz Collection Invites will be launched on the first Thursday of its run, with a special evening viewing from 7 to 9pm. Each show will feature a downloadable interview on zabludowiczcollection.com and a public Artist Presentation, in the form of a performance, talk or other event.

Nicholas Brooks (born 1975, London, UK). Brooks works in mediums including drawing, sculpture, video and installation. His enigmatic and highly refined moving image works often explore mysterious happenings or surroundings and grow out of the artist’s interest in subjects as diverse as prehistoric tool-making techniques, science fiction and the vestiges of urban planning. They resist categorisation and have an ineffable quality, but display a strong concern for form and the ways in which humans create and use form. Brooks’s work is infused with a poetic appreciation for scientific discoveries and theories and each of his projects probes a new field of enquiry. In 2012, Brooks had a solo exhibition at Carte Blanche Gallery, London and was included in screenings or group exhibitions at Centrum, Berlin; various cities in Japan as part of the Image Forum Festival 2012; the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and at the Rotterdam Film Festival.