Rachel Eleanor Brook is a neuroqueer textile and fibre disruptor whose work re-visions autism, gender non-binaries and disability within contemporary arts practice. Working across mixed media textile, fibre, found objects, sound and audiovisual elements, her practice is rooted in lived experience and shaped by the sensory realities of autism and ADHD.
Textile assemblage has become central to her work as a material that holds repetition, tactility and interruption. Through the politics of joy and the embodied act of stimming, Brook develops works that invite interaction and shift through audience presence. Participation is not an addition to the work but part of its structure. It reflects her commitment to repositioning disabled and neurodivergent people as authors of cultural dialogues..
Her practice challenges ableist narratives and questions how disability is framed within institutional contexts. Through texture, movement and sensory engagement, she creates spaces where neurodivergent embodiment is visible, relational and unapologetic. Joy operates as a deliberate strategy, interrupting assumptions of limitation and reframing disability as culturally vital.
Alongside studio production, performance and community engagement inform her approach to access and audience. Her work is grounded in dialogue and collective encounter, creating environments where disabled and autistic identities are not marginal but central. Brook’s practice seeks to make space. Space for visibility. Space for accountability. Space for joy.
Image credit: Andrea Southam
Rachel Eleanor Brook 