Mary-Louise Browne has a Master of Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours in sculpture from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, She has exhibited widely and is represented in major public and private collections. She is best known for her major public commissions - the most recent of which is the award winning granite bench transmutation work stretching the length of Lorne Street in Auckland. 'Body to Soul' in the Wellington Botanical Gardens is another well-known wor.

Mary-Louise's exploration of neon in this exhibition has been made possible by a grant from Creative New Zealand.

Mark Amery, art critic, The Dominion Post, 4 February 2009

"Browne opens out the rich potential readings within the public ornamental and decorative presentation of language from a move poster to a memorial.

She provides challenging often rewarding plays between the prosaic and poetic, weighing the imaginative value of words as objects and emblems.

Her work is at its most interesting for me when it is at its most poetically playful in talking to the material being used.

There are also several new works in neon here. It's a material whose use for text in art is well worn, and it's at its most effective here for me when the words speak strongly to its gaseous stillness and its design, such as in a movie-poster-style rendering of the words 'Dead Calm'."