Born: Kuwait. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
2017 Black Ships, Riddoch Gallery, Mt Gambier, South Australia
2017 Sporting Country, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2017 Black Ships, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
2016 Black Ships, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2016 The Paper Mill, Neospace, Melbourne
2015 Black Ships, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2012 Australian Gothic, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Afterlife, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria
2009 A Hopeless Taste of Eternity, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2020 From All Points of the Southern Sky: Photography from Australia and Oceania. Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Florida USA
2018 Unconscious Places: Photography and History, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, New South Wales
2018 National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
2018 The Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2018 Nostalgia: itÕs not what it used to be, Hawksbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2017 Melbourne Festival - An Unorthodox Flow of Images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2017 Icons of Yarra, City of Yarra Council, Melbourne
2017 Festival of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Curtain Call, Stills Gallery, Sydney,
2016 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2016 CCPÕs 30th Anniversary Fundraiser, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2015 Feast, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2014 The Sievers Project, Melbourne Art Fair
2014 The Sievers Project, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne,
2014 Khem, Strange Neighbour Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria
2013 Not Before Time, BREENSPACE, Sydney
2012 CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2011 The Rest is Silence, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne 2011 The Small Art Show, Carbon Black, Melbourne
2011 New Photo, Subject Matter Art Space, Melbourne
2010 Monumental Effect, Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Abebe, Miryam. ÒDas TreibhausÓ, Sichtbar Art, 10 November (link)
2019 Rope, Brian. ÒNow You See Me: Visualising the Surveillance State at PhotoAccessÓ, The Canberra Times, 28 November (link)
2019 Pateman, Daniel. ÒNow You See Me: Visualising the Surveillance StateÓ. This is tomorrow contemporary art magazine, 7 November (link)
2018 Inglis, Alison; Mendelssohn, Joanna; De Lorenzo, Catherine; Speck, Catherine. Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Isbel, Paul. ÒReview: 2018 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional GalleryÓ, Arts Hub (link)
2018 West Brett, Donna. Unconscious Places: Photography and History, Exhibition Catalogue, GCS Gallery, Sydney (link)
2017 Coslovich, Gabriella. A Celebration in Photography, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 March (link)
2017 Zwartz, Henry. AustraliaÕs love of sport on display, The Canberra Times, 10 March
2016 Haslem, Wendy. Black Ships catalogue essay, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Research Library 2016 Doughty, Jacqueline, Basil Sellers Art Prize 5, Ian Potter Museum of Art
2016 Harmon, Steph. ÔBob Dylan, high fashion and Òhuman follyÓ: 30 years of Melbourne Photography,Õ The Guardian, 21 July (link)
2015 Murray, Phip. ÔJane Brown: Light and Darkness,Õ Art Collector, Issue 72, April–June (link)
2015 Frost, Andrew. ÔBlack Ships/Small WorldsÕ, The Art Life, 30 March (link)
2014 Rainforth, Dylan. ÔLens on SieversÕ, The Age, 15 July
2014 Coote, Gavin. ÔOpen-air museum: images capture industrial decline of Broken Hill,Õ ABC, 19 June
2014 Stieven-Taylor, Alison. ÔAustralia: The Sievers Project,Õ LÕOeil de la Photographie, June
2014 Stephens, Andrew. ÔWitness to a lost timeÕ, The Age, 7 June (link)
2014 Cass, Naomi and McFarlane, Kyla. ÔThe Sievers Project / exhibition catalogueÕ, Centre for Contemporary Photograpy (link)
2014 Edgar, Ray. ÔPast Master: The Sievers Project.Õ Art Guide, May /June
2014 Wolifson, Chloe. Art and Australia Vol 50 No 3 Summer (link)
2014 Allen, Christopher. ÔNational Gallery of Victoria becomes a crowded house with Melbourne Now,Õ The Australian Newspaper, 18 January
2013 Duke, Hannah. ÔMelbourne Now Brings Contemporary Art to the CityÕs StreetsÕ Untapped Cities
2013 Champtaloup, Julia. ÒKeeping it local MelbourneÕ A Magazine, November
2013 National Gallery Victoria. Melbourne Now, Exhibition Catalogue, NGV
2013 Fitzgerald, Michael. ÔFrom light, formsÕ, Sydney Morning Herald, 12-13 October
2013 Britton, Kate. ÔJane Brown and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy From Light FormsÕ Raven, 26 September
2013 Preston, Sam. ÔStillness and Calm at BreenspaceÕ, Broadsheet, 22 September (link)
2013 Susan van Wyk. ÔMelbourne Now countdown - Day 33', National Gallery of Victoria blog, 20 October
2013 Fitzgerald, Michael. ÔEditorÕs Choice: Through the looking glass: From the 1970s to nowÕ Photofile: vol. 93
2013 Nichols, Hugh. ÔMuch that is different from other landsÕ, Timemachine Magazine, No. 8, Sydney
2012 Wark, Scott. ÔThing-ness and PhotographyÕ, REALTIME, vol. 111, Oct-Nov
2012 Rule, Dan. CCP Declares on the Nature of Things, The Age, 18 August
2012 Nowak, Jolanta. ÔDocuments, Encounters and Histories,Õ catalogue essay, CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things, Centre for Contemporary Photography (link)
2012 Helen McDonald. Christine Schmidt, Elvis Richardson, et al. The Rest is Silence, Arts Victoria
2012 McFarlane, Robert. ÔRedefining the Australian LandscapeÕ, Ozphoto Review Blog, April
2011 Caterson, Simon. ÔPaint it Black', The Weekend Australian Review, August 6-7 (link)
2009 Gaston, Sean. Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the chance of meeting, Continuum
2020 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2018 National Works on Paper. Finalist, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2016 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Finalist. Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2016 City of Yarra Small Projects
2015 Toyota Factory Commission
2015 Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
2014 The Sievers Project, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2014 Art and Australia / Credit Suisse Contemporary Art Award,
2013 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2012 Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art
2017 Artist interview: Art Thursday 30th March 2017 – 89.7 Eastside FM, Sydney (link)
2016 Guest Lecturer – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Photography Studies College (also 2015 and 2014)
2016 Art and Industry Festival, panel discussion – (link)
2015 Alchemists Masterclass for artists, School of Art, Australian National University and the National Gallery of Art, Canberra (link)
2015 Public lecture, Inspiration by Design: Word and Image from the Victoria and Albert Museum - Focus on Photography, State Library of Victoria.
2015 Slow Canoe Live Journal – Performance, Fitzroy, Victoria
2013 Interview on Canvas, FBi Radio, 22 September (link to MP3)
2013 Melbourne Now Floor Talk, National Gallery of Victoria
2013 Bowness Prize Exhibition Floor Talk, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Education
Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
Jane BrownÕs exquisitely composed landscapes and interiors are characterised by atmospheres of seduction and melancholy. Carefully observed scenes from around the world hold a distinct anthropological charge, exploring absence, chance and the materiality of time. Every photograph has been meticulously hand printed and deliberately composed. The era is indeterminable, as BrownÕs contemporary scenes are filtered through an analogue lens. – Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2017
ÔBrown was one of eight artists I curated into the group exhibition CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things, held at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. This was a declarative exhibition highlighting bodies of work by artists I considered to be key practitioners in contemporary photography and video practice in Australia today. Hand printed with exceptional skill in her own darkroom, her generally small-scaled, gelatin silver photographs include diverse subjects taken in Australia and abroad. Whilst Brown is technically adept, she is also conceptually rigorous and brings an eccentric and elegiac eye to her subjects. Her work engages with the history of photography, the melancholy of experience, the emotional resonance of place, photographic narrative as well as literary influences, particularly the work of W.G. Sebald. Brown has been consistently building these interests over the past few years and will, I believe, go from strength to strength. She is also adventurous – The Sievers Project saw her accessing sensitive mining sites at Broken Hill and a former paper mill in Melbourne, experimenting with scale and toning.Õ - Kyla McFarlane – Curator, Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane – Art Collector Magazine, 2015) S
ÔSmall and gloriously hand-printed, Jane BrownÕs work champions the craft values of analogue photography coupled with her incisive and enquiring eye. She finds the poetic within contemporary, retro and historic sites rendering light, architecture and time with beauty and miraculous attention to the qualities of black and white photographyÕ. -Naomi Cass, Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - The Guardian Newspaper, July 2016
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https://www.neospace.com.au/papermill
http://documentor.com.au/portfolio/jane-brown-black-ships/
http://www.photography-now.com/artist/jane-brown
http://www.janebrownphotography.com