Jemima_Brown
Jemima Brown uses sculpture, drawing and time based media to create humanoid avatars occupying a zone between the animate and the inanimate. The work explores formal sculptural decision making, suggested narrative and social critique. Graduating from an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 1995 she has established her practice as an artist working and exhibiting internationally. As recipient of the 2010/11 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award she showed new work at Standpoint Gallery in London in September 2011. Other recent exhibitions include ‘Multiverse’ at Akershus Kunstsenter in Norway and ‘Apopcalypse Now – Works from the Collection of Hugo & Carla Brown’, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, both 2011, ‘Now You See It’, Café Gallery Projects, London, 2009 and ‘Everybody Counts’ at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorim, Norway, 2008. Her other exhibition credits include ‘The Square Root of Drawing’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; ‘Boost in the Shell’, De Bond Contemporary Art Centre, Bruges; ‘New Faces’, Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam; ‘The Galleries Show’, Royal Academy, London; ‘Polyphonix Video Show’, Pompidou Centre, Paris; ‘Jemima and Dolly Brown’, Vilma Gold, London; ‘Heironymous Slept Here’, Irvine Fine Arts Centre, Irvine; ‘The Global City’, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond; ‘Pop Art’ Fries Museum, Leeuwarden and ‘New Contemoraries 97’, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Camden Arts Centre, London, and CCA, Glasgow. Past awards include a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of California Los Angeles, in 1998, and a Cocheme Fellowship at the University of the Arts, Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 2006.
- London, UK
