Vicky Browne

Bio:

Vicky Browne is an interdisciplinary mixed media artist based in the Blue Mountains, NSW.She completed a Master of Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts in 2010 and her work has been exhibited at Artspace, Sydney; Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand; and DunedinPublic Art Gallery, New Zealand. Institutional group exhibitions include Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, Sydney; Sound Full: Sound in contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand; WONDER,Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea; and Material Sound at the Murray Art MuseumAlbury in 2018 (To travel around Australia in 2020). Browne was the winner of the 2013 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists’ Travel Scholarship Prize and in 2014. Her most recent solo exhibitions include was Work/Play at the Blue Mountains City Gallery in 2022. Images below. Catalogue link here. Video link here. Additional Research Information  Here.  Into the interconnectedness that spans the vastness of space and the infinitesimal scale of microcosms  at Verge Gallery. Browne also curated the exhibition Topographies  at the SCA Gallery more information here a review of the exhibition can be found here

Topographies considers studio practice posited within experimental processes, technological inquiry, ecological criticality and collaborative actions. The works in the exhibition are born from art practices that consider political structures, environmental forces, and societal challenges. Through experimental studio techniques and alternative modes of practice participants posit and critique wide topographical terrains whether factual, contested or imagined.

The exhibition layout guides visitors through a looped thematic topographical tour inviting navigation of intricate relationships between possible/present topographies framed within studio practice.

Read the exhibition essay by Naomi Riddle

Artists: Ben Denham, Vicky Browne, Rachel Peachey & Paul Mosig, Magnetic Topographies & Friends, Brendan Van Hek and Amanda Williams.

Read a review:  Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change? By Alexandra Crosby in The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/ecological-art-can-bring-us-closer-to-understanding-nature-how-does-this-look-in-the-era-of-climate-change-236881