Brooke Stewart
Brooke Stewart’s work explores the intersection of art and sport as a way to understand vulnerability, trust, and shared human experience. Both demand presence, repetition, and commitment—while also inviting introspection, community, and transformation.
She sees the court as a sacred site—an earth painting—layered with memory, movement, and spiritual culture. These spaces carry homage: to home courts, to community, to the quiet rituals of play. Stewart is drawn to how time settles into them, and how they become stages for radical empathy and real-time negotiation.
"In particular, I see courts as battlefields where women in sport fight for visibility and equal space. Sport, in my practice, is both metaphor and material—embodying strength, resistance, and tenderness. Through it, I explore the politics of space and the ways we shape one another through every pass, pivot, and pause. Ultimately, I aim to create not just art, but temporary fields—environments where difference is honored, collectivity is sacred, and the pursuit of something greater than the self becomes possible."
Brooke Stewart is a Boston-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice is informed by a background as a two-sport, Division I athlete. She has exhibited work internationally and nationally at venues including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Los Angeles Printmaking Society; LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA); Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai); Edinburgh College of Art; and Artist Proof Press (Johannesburg, South Africa). In 2022, she received a Mass Cultural Council Grant for her work in printmaking. Her work has been reviewed and featured in The Boston Globe, New American Paintings, and Boston Art Review.
