Jack Brown
Jack Brown is a visual artist working in (and in the spaces between) sculpture, painting, response to site, print, public action, drawing, photography and video.
New works begin with source material pulled from the edges of our collective reference pools. These starting points are altered, remade or relocated before being cast back into the world as artworks. Meaning emerges in this ‘remaking’, in the collision of source, extraction processes, material, making processes, media, situation, site and public interaction.
A covered fruit-machine, paintings of people who’s been drawn on when they’ve passed out drunk, scans of keyed cars, found objects pressed into floral foam, the smell of burnt toast, paintings of crossword grids, a karaoke song about empty galleries, soap sculptures for public toilets, rope-swing stereographs, trinkets left dangling in street grids.
Interventions in the wider world, collaborations and manipulations, moments of poetry and flashes of meaning; my practice can be seen as an investigation into ways of making and how those made objects or moments interact with the world around them.
Born in Stockport in 1979, lives and works in Greater Manchester.
Represented by Gertrude works available here.