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Mary-Louise Browne (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist.

Education

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Browne graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1982 with an MFA.[1][2]

Career

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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.[3] Browne has had a text-based conceptual practice and uses text in lieu of imagery to convey social and political commentaries.[4]

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.[5]

Notable works

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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.[6][7][1]

 
Body to Soul in the Wellington Botanic Garden
  • Font, a shallow fountain surrounded by text, installed in St Patrick's Square, Auckland CBD in 2009.[9]
  • Golden, a non-text-based work for Te Tuhi Billboards in 2010.[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mary-Louise Browne". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  2. ^ "Art Collection > "It's like ."". artcollection.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. ^ "Bartley and Company Art". www.bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. ^ "Mary-Louise Browne Bio". Brick Bay Sculpture Trail. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  5. ^ Gifford, Adam (2008-08-23). "Art survivor comes of age". The New Zealand Herald.
  6. ^ "Works by Mary-Louise Browne | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  7. ^ "Loading... | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  8. ^ "Wellington Sculpture Trust | The Sculptures". www.sculpture.org.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  9. ^ "Reality Bites: Bite 28: Mary-Louise Browne - Font, 2009". Reality Bites. 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  10. ^ "Mary-Louise Browne: Golden". Bruce E. Phillips. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  11. ^ "Exhibition Archive | Te Tuhi". www.tetuhi.org.nz. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
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