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Australian-born, London-based artist, produces paintings that primarily deal with the built environment, especially urban spaces.
Drawing on the history of painting in the Western tradition, to explore ideas around memory and perception as they relate to the architecture and topography of modern cities. Through the layering of different painterly styles and techniques, Brown produces work that reveal the traces of the past in the present moment, forming visual ‘timelines’ in a single picture.
Martin Brown has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Diploma of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney, Australia. After exhibiting extensively in Australia, he relocated to London in 2003. since then, he has held solo shows in London, Basel, Paris, and most recently an independent solo show in Venice, that opened concurrently with the opening of 58th Venice Biennale.
In 2016 was awarded ING Discerning Eye Founders Purchase Prize
Recent solo exhibition:
Martin Brown, Venezia/Veduta/Contemporanea
SG Gallery Venice, Italy, May 2019
recent exhibitions Venezia/Veduta/Contemporanea
Martin Brown
CV
Canberra, Australia. b 1971
Sydney, Australia 1990-2003
London, UK. 2003-present
Solo Exhibitions
2019 'Venezia/Veduta/Contemporanea' Martin Brown, SG gallery, Venice IT
2016 'Martin Brown & Anthony White' Displacement (Two person show) Le Pave' d'Orsay, Paris FR
2010 'VOLTA' 6 Art fair, Solo presentation, Fred-London, Basel CH
2009 'Recent Paintings' Fred-London, London UK
2003 'Recent Paintings' Australian Galleries, Sydney AU
2001 ‘Paintings of Sydney and Europe’, Australian Galleries, Sydney AU
2000 ‘Recent Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney AU
1998 ‘Newtown Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney AU
Group Exhibitions
2022 Hampstead Art Society, Fitzrovia gallery, London
2020 "ING Discerning Eye" Special online virtual edition
2018 "The Harry Pye Award for Art, 2018" A-side B-side gallery, London
2017 "By the Sea" curated Harry Pye, Gallery 64a, Whitstable
2016 "ING Discerning Eye" Mall Galleries, London
2016 "In Residence II" Oliver Sears gallery, London
2010-2011 Now and Then" Oliver Sears gallery, Dublin
2010 Group show, Residence gallery, London
2009 "Newtown Diaries" Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2009 "Bushwhacked" Hardware Gallery, Sydney
2008 "The Scary Things" Gallery Ost, Moscow, Russia
2008 "Restart, Thanks, We are together" 733 Art Factory, Chengdu, China
2008 "Mothers Exhibition", Satorial Contemporary Art, London
2007 "Spectre vs Rector", The residence Gallery, London
2005 Cable street studios, open studio exhibition, arts unwrapped, creative London, London
2004 Cable street studios, open studio exhibition, London
2002 ‘Salon des Refuses’, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney
University and Schools Club Art Prize Exhibition, Sydney
2001 Australian Painting and Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Ill Met by Moonlight’, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University
Helen Lempriere NSW Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition
‘Salon des Refuses’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2000 the Second City – Urban Works from the Collection’, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
‘Fine Paintings & Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2000
1999 ‘Five Painters – Christmas Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
‘Fine Paintings & Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
1998 ‘Leading the Way – 1997-98 Acquisitions’, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne.
‘Fine Paintings & Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
‘The Fleurieu Biennale’ McLaren Vale, SA
1997 ‘A Taste in Art’, Community Aid Abroad Exhibition, Sotheby’s,Melbourne.
‘Dugong Exhibition’, Palm House, Botanical Gardens, Sydney.
‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper’, Australian Galleries,Sydney
‘Salon des Refuses’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1996 ‘Fine Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Friends of Brian Dunlop’, Exhibition of 12 Figurative Painters, Charles
Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
1995 ‘Figure it Out: Ten Artists’, Figurative Drawing Exhibition, James Harvey
1993 ‘And an Image of Myself’, 25 Young Artists Present an Event, Cyberspace
Gallery, Sydney.
1992-94 Student Exhibitions, Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Sydney Institute of Technology Gallery
1992-94 National Art School, Sydney Institute of Technology
Bibliography
Forbes, Joanne Shurvell (online) Twelve essential offsite exhibitions, Venice Biennale May 2019
Artlyst, Sara Faith, P C Robinson (online) Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality May 2019
Venezia Today, (online) listing and article Venezia/Veduta/Contemporanea May 2019
Exibart, (online) listing Venezia/Veduta/Contemporanea May 2019
Il Giornale dell ' Arte, Listing, International exhibitions, May 2019
Kentishtowner, Front Cover and feature article, Christmas Issue, Novemeber-December 2016
Glauner, Max (review: 'Volta' Basel) Kleine Ausreißer - Kultur - Tagesspiegel, 18 June 2010
Timeout, recommended exhibition listings. November-December 2009
Fortescue, Elizabeth; Weekend Confidential, The Telegraph, 5 April 2003
Benzie, Tim; Sunday Metro, The Sun Herald, 6 April 2003
Fernandes, Michelle; Domain, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 2003
Art & Australia, Vol39. No4 "View from the Tate Modern" image reproduced galleries section 2002
Smee, Sebastian; Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 - 27 April 2000
Kidd, Courtney; The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 2000
Faces of Sydney, Weekend Australian, 30 – 31 October 1999
Auty, Giles; Review, Weekend Australian, 22 - 23 April 2000
Auty, Giles; Review, Weekend Australian, 25 - 26 April 1998
Auty, Giles; Abstracts: The Debate Goes On, Review, The Australian, March 1996
Publications
Exhibition catalogue: "In Residence II" Oliver Sears gallery, London - October 2016
Exhibition catalogue: Martin Brown, Paintings of Sydney and Europe, Sydney - November 2001
text: Christine France. Published: Australian Galleries
Collections
Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle N.S.W
New England Regional Art Museum, NERAM, Armidale N.S.W
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast QLD
N.S.W Industrial Relations Commission (loan: Private collection)
Important private collections; Australia, China, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, U.S.A
Grants/Awards
2016 ING Discerning Eye Founders Purchase Prize
2014 Semi finalist Doug Moran Portrait prize
1996 Drummoyne Art Prize, Portrait category, 1st Prize,
Arts related Employment
2017-2018 contributor Artlyst, reviews: Venice 57th Venice Biennale , Sydney 21st Sydney Biennale,
2014-2018 Short Course, Urban landscape painting. The Art Academy, London U.K
2002-2003 Part time Lecturer, painting, National Art School, Sydney, N.S.W
2001-2002 Part time teaching, painting, Mosman day and Evening college N.SW
1994-2002 Art Restorer (also picture framing) Charles Hewitt Galley, Sydney, N.S:W
1992. Clean Hands, Editioning etchings for Arthur Boyd, Master printmaker Diana Davidson, Whaling road press
Education
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School
1994 Dip. Fine Arts, National Art School, (Sydney Institute of Technology)