Vicky Browne

Micro/Macro 1, 2023

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Perspex graphite powder gold lustre powder enamel62 x 62 cm
Drum Drawing, 2023. Metal bowl electronics gold leaf gold lustre powder81 cm diameter

Vicky Browne is an installation artist who utilises everyday objects such as walkmans, iPods, clothing and furniture to comment on Western systems of consumption and networked relationships to ecologies. Browne often manipulates the familiar using traditional craft methods (such as knitting or weaving), and regularly employs found or produced sound. Browne 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. 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 and Material Sound at the Black Mountain College Museum and Art Centre Asheville NC in 2018. Browne has collaborated with musician Darren Seltmann and Ceramist Simon Reece. Their projects include MONA FOMA festival, Hobart, a residency at Artspace Sydney and an exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery 2020. Vicky Browne was announced the winner of the 2013 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists’ Travel Scholarship Prize and completed a residency at the 18th street Art Centre in Santa Monica in 2014. From 2018 - 2022 Browne’s work was travailing Australia in the Material Sound group exhibition hosted by Museums and Galleries NSW, This exhibition was also exhibited at the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Centre in Asheville NC US in 2018. Browne is currently coordinating the First Year Foundation program at Sydney College of the Arts (The University of Sydney). A major survey of her practice was exhibited at the Blue Mountains City Gallery (NSW) in 2022. Currently, the ongoing work Cosmic Noise is included in the group exhibition West of Central at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery until September 2023.