GINA BROWN
GINA BROWN
ABOUT
My paintings translate an archive of old photographic material where I seek the 'unknown' through ambiguous narratives. I am currently interested in the unreliability of memory and the compulsion to collect old photographs and postcards in a mental process of building a shrine to the forgotten past.
I aim to create covetable paintings that are of the present but haunted by the past. My paintings deconstruct time and place to transcend the photograph and fixate upon the 'melancholy' and the fleeting transcience of memory. Faces devoid of facial features have stories of their own; mysterious and hidden. I give them new life and new narratives, embedded within my paintings.
Gina Brown graduated from Newcastle University in 2012 with a BA degree with Honours in Fine Art. In her final year she focused on her exploration of portraiture. Her work has since broadened and her interest in the narrative has developed into biographical themes.
Her practice is oil based and she works on fine cotton canvas and linen. Drawing provides an essential link between her source imagery and her finished paintings and is key to expressing the depth and character of her work.Her practice is oil based and she works on fine cotton canvas and linen. Drawing provides an essential link between her source imagery and her finished paintings and is key to expressing the depth and character of her work.
Her small painting How We Live was shortlisted for the Lynn Stainer-Painter’s Prize 2017 and was displayed seen at Guildford House Gallery in Surrey until 22nd April 2017. Little Pink Dress won the Peaches Miniature Award at the National Open Art Exhibition in 2016. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Neo art prize and in September the same year, won the Curzon Ripon Exhibition Prize at the New Lights Art Prize.
See currently lives in Northumberland
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