Jim Brouwer

Industry expertise: 24 years of building an exceptional foundation of knowledge and relationships in the contemporary, live and audio-visual arts industry.

Relevant skills: well-versed in performing installation of complex Audiovisual artwork, Digital production, large-scale sound, light and installations, Live performances, sound, lighting, video streaming and video production.

A relationship builds 26 years of experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional colleagues on internal and external teams.

Jim Brouwer is an audio-visual producer and creative technician working with artists, dancers, curators, musicians and art galleries. He is an Artist and AV consultant based in Nottingham, with a workshop at Primary. He worked in digital, live, sound and interactive art, specialising in video, audio, Live Streaming, events, programming, interactive art and creative technology.

Jim is a versatile artist who has developed projects in collaboration with artists, musicians and producers, including Turner Prize Winner Mark Leckey and Turner Prize-nominated Artists Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Mika Rottenberg. He is also their Senior AV technician at the Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery.

Jim's installation work is a perfect example of how artists can use their creativity to make the world more aware. He collaborates with various artists, learning teams and other creatives for them all to share ideas about what they want out of this project; then, he brings those visions to fruition by implementing requirements during events like installations & performances, to which Jim also contributes technical elements too across exhibitions public programs music+performances

Jim was awarded the a-n Bursaries 2022: Time-Space Money Bursaries to support my professional artistic practice. He won the Nottingham Castle Open in 2014 in collaboration with artist Simon Raven for the video ‘Human Freak - Queue Here’, 2014

As a freelance technical producer and consultant, Jim has also worked with Liverpool Biennial, Backlit Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Dance4, Red Earth, The National Trust Yelena Popova, Rebecca Lee, William Hunt, Candice Jacobs, S1 Gallery Sheffield, Site Gallery Sheffield, Be Kinder with Jarvis Cocker in 2019, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, 2022 and Baltic Gateshead 2022.

COMMISSIONS

To and Fro Primary Collaborative commission with Sahjan Koona 2023 ongoing

Hull Time Based Art, ‘HTBA Prize’ for Fine Art Degree show, 2003 

Lovebytes Festival Carrot Chopping 2 (Video installation) Lovebytes, Sheffield, UK  2001