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 production. Browne often manipulates the familiar using traditional craft methods (such as knitting or weaving), and she regularly employs found or produced sound. Vicky has built a practice around materialising sound through objects. At times sound is manifest through its concept rather than its actuality, and is imagined but not actually present. Other times sound is present but it is not what we expect.
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; and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand. Recent 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 It is what it is, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor. Browne also maintains a collaborative practice with musician Darren Seltmann. Together they have exhibited at MONA FOMA, Hobart, completed a residency at Artspace Sydney (2014), and exhibited the work 'Black Mountain' at the Blue Mountain Cultural Centre. 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 (2014).
Browne currently teaches at Sydney College of the Arts (The University of Sydney) and UNSW School of Art and Design (formerly COFA) and is represented by Galerie Pompom, Sydney.
Image credits:
Man Machine, 2012, customised turntable wood vinyl record copper plastic. Photo: Ian Hobbs
Graphite Sound Drawings 1-4, 2015, light boxes tracing paper adhesive graphite. Photo: Ian Hobbs
Permanent/Impermanent 2015
Mixed media
Installation view
Photo: Brett East
The Graphite Drawing Machine 2015
Wood, electronics, graphite power
150 x 45 x 45cm
Photo: Brett East
Bells on Bells 2015
Leather, metal, polycarbonate record, wood, string
Dimensions variable,
Photo: Brett East
All images courtesy the artist and Galerie Pompom