Mary-Louise Browne

Mary-Louise Browne (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.[1][2][3]

Education

Browne graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1982 with an MFA.[3]

Career

Browne has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, and is known for her public commissions including the award-winning Byword, a series of nine stone benches running the length of Lorne Street in Auckland.[4] Browne has had a text-based conceptual practice and uses text in lieu of imagery to convey social and political commentaries.[5]

Browne was the first director of Auckland artist-run gallery space Artspace, opened in reaction to the direction Auckland Art Gallery was taking with its move towards high-end imported historical shows of artists like Claude Monet. Browne was succeeded as director by Priscilla Pitts, an art historian.[6]

Notable works
  • Body to Soul, a granite staircase inscribed with a series of words moving from 'body' to 'soul'. This public commission was installed in 1996 on Norwood Path in Wellington Botanic Garden, with funding from Creative New Zealand and Wellington City Council.[7]
  • Font, a shallow fountain surrounded by text, installed in St Patrick's Square, Auckland CBD in 2009.[8]
  • Golden, a non-text-based work for Te Tuhi Billboards in 2010.[9][10]

References
  1. "Works by Mary-Louise Browne | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  2. "Loading... | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  3. "Mary-Louise Browne". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. "Bartley and Company Art". www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  5. "Mary-Louise Browne Bio". Brick Bay Sculpture Trail. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  6. Gifford, Adam (2008-08-23). "Art survivor comes of age". The New Zealand Herald.
  7. "Wellington Sculpture Trust | The Sculptures". www.sculpture.org.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  8. "Reality Bites: Bite 28: Mary-Louise Browne - Font, 2009". Reality Bites. 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  9. "Mary-Louise Browne: Golden". Bruce E. Phillips. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  10. "Exhibition Archive | Te Tuhi". www.tetuhi.org.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
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