Born: Kuwait. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
2022 There’s a certain Slant of light with Jane Brown,
Castlemaine Art Museum
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: it’s 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 CCP’s 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. “Das Treibhaus”, Sichtbar Art, 10 November (link)
2019 Rope, Brian.
“Now You See Me: Visualising the Surveillance State at PhotoAccess”,
The Canberra Times, 28 November (link)
2019 Pateman, Daniel. “Now You See Me: Visualising the
Surveillance State”. 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. “Review: 2018 National Works on Paper,
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery”, 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. Australia’s 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.
‘Bob Dylan, high fashion and “human folly”: 30 years of Melbourne Photography,’
The Guardian, 21 July (link)
2015 Murray, Phip. ‘Jane Brown: Light and Darkness,’ Art Collector, Issue 72, April–June (link)
2015 Frost, Andrew. ‘Black Ships/Small
Worlds’, The Art Life, 30 March (link)
2014 Rainforth,
Dylan. ‘Lens on Sievers’, The Age, 15
July
2014 Coote,
Gavin. ‘Open-air museum: images capture industrial decline of Broken Hill,’ ABC,
19 June
2014 Stieven-Taylor,
Alison. ‘Australia: The Sievers
Project,’ L’Oeil de la Photographie,
June
2014 Stephens, Andrew. ‘Witness to a lost
time’, The Age, 7 June (link)
2014 Cass, Naomi and
McFarlane, Kyla. ‘The Sievers Project / exhibition catalogue’, Centre for Contemporary Photograpy
(link)
2014 Edgar, Ray. ‘Past Master: The Sievers
Project.’ Art Guide, May /June
2014 Wolifson,
Chloe. Art and Australia Vol 50 No 3
Summer (link)
2014 Allen,
Christopher. ‘National Gallery of Victoria becomes a crowded house with
Melbourne Now,’ The Australian Newspaper,
18 January
2013 Duke, Hannah. ‘Melbourne Now Brings
Contemporary Art to the City’s Streets’ Untapped
Cities
2013 Champtaloup,
Julia. “Keeping it local Melbourne’ A
Magazine, November
2013 National Gallery Victoria. Melbourne Now, Exhibition Catalogue, NGV
2013 Fitzgerald, Michael. ‘From light,
forms’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12-13
October
2013 Britton, Kate. ‘Jane Brown and Sarah
Smuts-Kennedy From Light Forms’ Raven, 26 September
2013 Preston, Sam. ‘Stillness and Calm at Breenspace’, Broadsheet,
22 September (link)
2013 Susan van Wyk.
‘Melbourne Now countdown - Day 33', National
Gallery of Victoria blog, 20 October
2013 Fitzgerald,
Michael. ‘Editor’s Choice: Through the looking glass: From the 1970s to now’ Photofile: vol. 93
2013 Nichols, Hugh. ‘Much that is different
from other lands’, Timemachine Magazine, No. 8, Sydney
2012 Wark, Scott.
‘Thing-ness and Photography’, REALTIME,
vol. 111, Oct-Nov
2012 Rule, Dan. CCP Declares on the Nature
of Things, The Age, 18 August
2012 Nowak, Jolanta.
‘Documents, Encounters and Histories,’ 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. ‘Redefining the
Australian Landscape’, Ozphoto Review Blog, April
2011 Caterson,
Simon. ‘Paint 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
Brown’s 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 Brown’s contemporary scenes are
filtered through an analogue lens. – Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2017
‘Brown 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.’
- Kyla McFarlane – Curator, Australian
Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane – Art Collector Magazine, 2015) S
‘Small and gloriously
hand-printed, Jane Brown’s 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 photography’. -Naomi Cass, Director, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne - The Guardian Newspaper, July 2016
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