EXHIBITION · PROCESS SERIES
SHOWCASE WITH TIM BROOKES
EXHIBITION
June 2026
Get to Know Us
Tim Brookes
Tim Brookes is the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. His carvings, mostly of endangered minority writing, have been exhibited at, among other places, the Barbican Centre, the Bodleian Library, West Den Haag in the Netherlands, Mundolingua in Paris, and at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.
About the exhibition
Tim Brookes has spent seventeen years carving letters in wood mostly letters from writing systems the world is at risk of losing.
He is the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, a long-running body of work that documents and preserves minority scripts from around the globe.
In this talk, he'll speak about his practice, how it began, how it has evolved, and what seventeen years of working with wood and language has taught him about craft, patience, and why certain forms of knowledge are worth preserving.
This exhibition is for anyone interested in making, lettering, language, or the quieter end of what art can do.
