Artist Biography

Kayleigh Brooks is an emerging artist from Wisbech. Her work explores the instability of human contact and loneliness through large scale text works and figurative paintings. Her current work draws on sex, substance abuse and human touch. Brooks explores how we romanticise what we cannot quite reach and how fleeting moments become fragmented memories. Her oil paintings show how human contact can be tender as-well as compulsive, transactional, destructive or performative. Contact can offer closeness while simultaneously creating distance. This instability is how the work manifests itself into reconstructed encounters whether they are romanticised or distorted. 

Kayleigh Brooks is an award winning artist, earning the “Best student of the year award 2025” for Fine Art from the University of Suffolk. In the past she has been a part of many exhibitions. She has also worked with Ipswich Hospital to create commissioned artworks for the mental health wards.

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She has previously been part of 5 exhibitions, two in the Room 1 Gallery at the University of Suffolk titled: “Fragments” (May 2023) and “V”. (November 2023). She was also part of an exhibition in Peterborough Cathedral, “Made in 2022” (February-March 2023). She was part of a national trust site residency (Orford Ness) which resulted in a group exhibition in the waterfront Foyer at the University where she studies, “Make it Count”, 2024. She has also just finished her most recent show, her group interim show “Transience” at the University of Suffolk Waterfront Foyer, 2025.

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She has also been involved in exhibition's at Wisbech Gallery, "DRAW 2025", "The Open Exhibition 2025", "The Open Exhibition 2024". Her most recent group show "Flare" opens the 31st of October 2026 at Wisbech Gallery.