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Mary-Louise BrowneMary-Louise Browne is a sculptor of words - she has been working at the forefront of text-based conceptual practice in New Zealand for over 30 years. Using text in lieu of imagery, her work speaks to the visual while refusing the prevalence of images and their authority over contemporary imagination. She explores the metaphoric, material and visual qualities of language in a range of media including neon, granite, glass, metal, canvas, leather and paper.
In her work, found texts - mottoes, maxims, instructions, movie or song lines - are represented and given new form and context. The works challenge conventional readings and demonstrate how apparently simple words can have multiple layers of meaning. There is a delight in the double entendre and the clash of media and meaning, high art and the signwriter’s craft. Much of her work investigates the nature of art itself and the role of the viewer in ‘reading’ and interpreting an artwork. The big questions that she explores are handled with a playful lightness, warmth, wit and irony. Mary-Louise Browne is an established artist with an impressive history of exhibitions and permanent public art works including 'Byword', 2006, a series of nine stone benches running the length of Lorne Street in Auckland and 'Body to Soul', 1996, a monumental stone staircase in Wellington's Botanical Garden. Browne graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours in sculpture from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1982. For more information, please contact the gallery. |
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Byword - Auckland City Council Collection
2007 Mary-Louise Browne  Byword - Auckland City Council Collection 2007 Mary-Louise Browne Seeing Is Believing
2019 Mary-Louise Browne neon 1500 mm diameter  Seeing Is Believing 2019 Mary-Louise Browne neon 1500 mm diameter Love drug
2003 Mary-Louise Browne Acrylic on Leather 280 x 350 mm  Love drug 2003 Mary-Louise Browne Acrylic on Leather 280 x 350 mm Rare bird
2011 Mary-Louise Browne Acrylic on Leather 280 x 350 mm  Rare bird 2011 Truly rural
2011 Mary-Louise Browne neon 136 x 1085 mm  Truly rural 2011 Mary-Louise Browne neon 136 x 1085 mm Closer
2012 Mary-Louise Browne white neon 100 x 350 x 10mm  Closer 2012 Evolution
2012 Mary-Louise Browne neon 450 diamter  Evolution 2012 Mary-Louise Browne neon 450 diamter Always
2012 Mary-Louise Browne white neon 100 x 350 x 10mm  Always 2012 I am a camera
2020 Mary-Louise Browne leadlight window 535 x 640 x 45mm  I am a camera 2020 Mary-Louise Browne leadlight window 535 x 640 x 45mm |