ANDREW BROWNE

Andrew Browne is a Melbourne based Australian artist, born 1960. He works primarily in painting, but also across photography and graphic mediums including drawing, photogravure, intaglio and lithography. As well he has recently re-engaged with sculpture.

Since the 1980’s he has developed a unique visual language drawn from both the natural and the man-made environment - often through formalist collisions of style and subject - with a specific interest in the phenomena of illumination, the poetics of the nocturne and happenchance of the everyday, and to quote the artist '...a landscape alienated from the picturesque'. Often teasing an uncanny, strange or surreal mood, his work highlights both artificiality and subjectivity. As such his practise emerges from a series of relationships that encompass direct observation, imaginative play and free association, a debt to the photographic, and the historical and contemporary parameters of painting and art history more generally - variously suggesting our at times ambiguous, bewildering and contradictory place within an evolving environment.

Browne has exhibited Australia-wide for well over three decades at numerous dealer galleries and public, state and regional museums, with his work included in significant surveys of contemporary Australian art including “Wilderness: Balnaves Contemporary Painting” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2010), “Negotiating this world: Contemporary Australian Art” (2012/13) and “Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990’s” (2017) National Gallery of Victoria, and the recent collection presentation “EARTH/SKY” at the National Gallery of Australia (2018/19). Surveys of his work, across a variety of mediums including painting and photography, have been held at Bendigo Art Gallery (1999), Gippsland Art Gallery (2012) and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016).

His work is represented Australia-wide in numerous university and public collections including Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Geelong Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery and Macquarie, Curtin, Edith Cowan and Murdoch Universities, as well as in the British Museum in London. His work is also held in significant corporate collections including ANZ, Credit Suisse (HK), and Wesfarmers.

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Holdings 2023 | Group Exhibition

TIMES TIDE | Andrew Browne

News

Andrew Browne & Karla Marchesi Finalists in Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2023 | 12.10.23

Congratulations to Andrew Browne and Karla Marchesi whose works are finalists in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2023. Held every two years, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize attracts some of Australia’s most accomplished artists, awarding a generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000.

In Conversation with Andrew Browne | 19.04.23

Exhibiting artist Andrew Browne joined Alain Guillemain in the space to explore the theme of ‘the glimpse and self–divergence' in TIMES TIDE (11 - 29 April).

Andrew Browne: Newly Represented Artist | 30.08.22

We are delighted to announce that we are now representing the brilliant Andrew Browne. Melbourne-based Australian artist Andrew Browne works primarily in painting, but also across photography and graphic mediums..