GRACE BROWN . BIO & CV

Since 2014, Melbourne based ceramicist Grace Brown has been creating both sculptural and functional ceramics. Geometry and architecture form the basis of her inspiration, and her work is often modular and movable, offering a dreamlike and utopian quality.

Brown’s first solo exhibition at Stockroom, Lost Worlds is a collection of Utopian cityscapes, dwellings, and miniature communities created as a response to the often dystopian reality outside. Whether this is from drought, natural disasters, displacement, or as of 2020, a global pandemic. A driving question in Brown’s work has been how can these experiences be used to reimagine and redefine the significance of home, place, community, and shared history through sculpture?

Through building dreamlike landscapes, a key element explored in Brown’s work is further investigating the sense of connection we have to the ever-changing environment around us. Lost Worlds seeks to encourage dialogue on the significance of place, community, and what it means to be ‘home’ through art and sculpture.

In 2016 Brown created an exclusive range for the National Gallery of Victoria Design Store, Melbourne. Her work has featured in numerous magazines including Vogue Living (2020), Belle Magazine (2019), and The Design Files Open House Magazine (2018). This is her first exhibition with Stockroom, Kyneton.

EDUCATION

2017/18 Masters of Teaching (Primary) Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
2007/10 Bachelor of Design (Fashion) RMIT, Melbourne, Australia 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Lost Worlds, Stockroom, Kyneton, VIC (August - upcoming) 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Every Artist Ever, Stockroom, Kyneton, VIC (November - upcoming)

2020 Untitled, Modern Times, VIC, (October - upcoming) 

2020 Untitled, Gallery of Small Things, ACT, (upcoming - date TBC due to Covid 19) 

2019  Mixed Tape, Stockroom, Kyneton, VIC 

2019  Symbology, Nikau, Byron Bay, NSW  

2019 Modern Rituals, Modern Times, VIC

2019 Slow Clay X Collective 2019, Slow Clay Centre, VIC

2019 The Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, NSW

2019 Form and Assemble, Bisque Studios and Craft Cubed, VIC

2018 New Heirlooms, Modern Times, VIC

2018 Pepite Window Series, Pepite Store, VIC

2018 Slow Clay x Collective, Slow Clay Centre, VIC 

2017 The Design Files Open House, VIC

2017 Cooked, Lamington Drive, VIC

2016 NGV exclusive range for their Design Store, NGV, VIC 

AWARDS

2019 First Place, Ceramics Category, The Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, NSW

PUBLICATIONS

2020 Vogue Living, Sculpture Fiction, May/June Issue, p.38

2019 Frankie Magazine, Going Potty, Issue 89, p.112 and p.118

2019 Belle Magazine, May, p.92 

2019 Est Living, April, Issue 33

2018 Inside Out Magazine – Artist Profile, p.28 and p.29 

2018 Inside Out Magazine, Things We Love, p.43

2018 Design Files Open House Magazine, p.14

2017 Hello Lunch Lady, Issue Two, p.88 and p.91 

2016 Home Style Magazine, The Sunday Age, p.4

2016 Green Magazine, Issue 59