About
FICTIONALISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH A TRAGIC SENSE OF HUMOUR
About
Born in London in 1968, he was brought up between the UK, where his mother is from, and Morocco, where his Jewish father is from, as well as India. His childhood was spent amongst artists from different disciplines and spiritual traditions of different cultures. Settling in the UK at 14, he left school at 15, producing zines, T-shirts and music events.
Sculpture
At 20, he studied sculpture at Norwich School of Art under Brazilian artist Anna Maria Pacheco. After art school, he trained as a traditional stone carver with renowned master John Roberts.
Animation
In his 30s, switching from stone to animation, he completed an MA at the Royal College of Art (2001), leading to a career making award-winning films, teaching, running animation departments (LCC and Plymouth College of Art) and producing community media projects.
Community
A visionary community mapping project, Reimagine Your Town (2015), used game engines and VR to enable residents of a town to create a psychogeography that could be applied to town planning. The project led to an AHRC-funded PhD.
PhD
Becalelis Brodskis received his doctorate in 2024 for his thesis, Mapping a lived experience in landscape: An artist’s analysis of GPS and GIS data, applying a reading of the philosopher Henri Bergson’s theories of perception to a method mapping that identifies portals in space and time.
Recognised by esteemed professors as an original contribution to knowledge, the research was placed in a digital library to gather pixelated dust.
A nervous breakdown followed, then a diagnosis of bipolar disorder — in retrospect, both were the liberating daemon.
For the sake of sanity, he re-vowed to return without compromise to being a full-time artist.
Exodus
The Mulberry Tree is the result of Brodskis’s exodus from academia and the label of bipolar — facing the monster and liberating his research from limitations of academia
In July 2026, returning to the mulberry tree, the silkworm dragon revealed its head, its golden thread wrapped around the branches. From the dragon’s breath came the instruction to release his research from academia’s confines.
Sales of work provides independence and time to create the work
Existential Sitcom
Becalelis adopts an alter ego in an # existential sitcom.
His way of engaging with the Society of the Spectacle
Contact
To get in touch
- brodskis@gmail.com
- At the crossroads