lauren brown recent work
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recent work by Melbourne-based installation artist Lauren BrownTRANSCRIPT
In-the-BoxEnamel, tin jack-in-the-boxes, zip-lock bags, brass-esque plaques, dirt/hair/ash15 x 15 x 15 cm (x 10)
Early investigations in the city-scape form, light, red and projection, these works were produced at the National Art School, final year of a BFA.
ResidenceVictorian ash, Fluorescent exit light, electronic dimmer, satin, DVD stereo sound, brass-esque plaque.http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheseesred/2607794528/ Both exhibited as part of a joint show, abracadaver: death and magic with Linda McRae at Allan’s Walk.
projects: 2008: abracadaver
2008projects
Interesting South
Interesting is a series of non-conferences, based around the idea that “in order to be interesting, you need to be interested”. Having attended the first Interesting, originally organised in London Lauren has done the set design for the Sydney conferences, based around place to have a chat. IS I: 2007Bondi Pavillion TheatreThe loungeroom: chairs, lamps, couches, bookshelf, beanbag, rugs and a tea-making performance throughout the presentations.
IS II: 2008Belvoir St TheatreThe backyard: fake grass, plants, tiki lamps, garden gnomes, deckchairs and daisies.
projects: 2007-8: interesting south
2007-8projects
OccupiedPerformanceStickers
As part of a project on public space, and a continuation of the toilet project, a small performance/occupation was staged in a public toilet at Knox Shopping Centre - a large private mall in the outer suburbs of Melbourne (and part of the new public spaces of consumption).
projects: 2008 : occupied
2008 projects
OccupiedPerformanceStickers
The only documentation was a short section of video, writing and stickers left on the site:
An artist sat here for an hour and a halfShe did not buy a thingShe did not worry about what to buyShe read, wrote, thought and daydreamed
210The real values of culture can be maintained only by negating culture.But this negation can no longer be a cultural negation. It may in a sense
projects: 2008 : occupied
2008 projects
Not Now, I’m TalkingProject curated by David KemmeryProject Contemporary ArtspaceWollongong NSW, AustraliaAugust 2008
projects: 2008: not now, i’m talking
2008projects
1300 x 740 x 470Wallpaper and projection installation: paper, tape, pins, stop-motion animation
74 x 74 x 470 cm (approx).Craft Victoria, Melbourne, AustraliaSite-specific installation for Making Sense, curated by Nella Themelios.
projects: 2008 : making sense
2008 projects
projects: 2008 : my world is 15 x 15
When I realised my world was no bigger....Felt, stop-motion animation, ipod touch, pins, thread
Gallery 374, Northcote, Melbourne, Australia15 x 15 x 15cmObject/animation for My Work is 15 x 15, curated by Kim Jaeger.
when i realised my world was no bigger...documents the process of "measuring" 15 x 15 cm as a way of knowing space and the realisations that happen when you truly experience the dimensions of your 'world' through empirical and mathematical means.
2008projects
double-click to play
Red stickersRed and black ink, adhesive stickers3.3 x 9.9 cm.Cardiff, Dubai, Hamburg, London, Melbourne, Paris
projects: 2007 (ongoing): red stickers
2007-projects
Spitalfields, Claridges, Dubai WindtowerPaper/adhesive paperBetween 1m to 2m (height)
Distorting the public space by reconfiguring the solid, monumental and permanent 3-dimensional medium of architecture into ephemeral, 2-dimensional and flimsy media. Pasted up in various places around Melbourne.
projects: 2008 (ongoing): paper architecture
2008 -projects
Thread reconfiguredKnitted runner, video, paste-ups, performance, yarnSizes variable
An installation, originally designed for The Frontroom, in Cambridge, responding to an earlier work which used wool/thread as a means to investiagate throught. This work reconfigures the thread into form and space, whereby thoughts are ‘knitted’ into a tangible object, a designed outcome.
projects: 2009 (ongoing): thread reconfigured
2009projects
The Toilet ProjectPaper, ink, pins, felt, stop-motion animationSize variable
Site-specific actions and occupation of public toilets. Measuring and patterning spaces, in order to create private places, by lining them with felt.
Current project: RMIT, Bldg 50
projects: 2009 (ongoing): the toilet project
2009projects
The CandystripersCollaboration with pop-artist Gemma Jones, ‘candystriping’ places and spaces in red and white.
2008Shortlisted for 2009 City of Melbourne Laneways CommissionStudio 569
2009Bus Gallery Foyer
projects: 2009 (ongoing): candystriper project
2009projects