Description
John Brown
John Brown is an Edinburgh-based artist and teacher who uses a wide range of sources, methods and formats to make large, complex installations that place small multiple scenarios and objects against a backdrop of the epic to create new narratives. At the core of all his work, there is an obsession with drawing, painting, model-making and an interest in the heart-breaking amount of imagery and stuff that the world contains at this point in history. Recent work has explored the idea of the ‘unrealised project’ as a way of investigating large-scale or potentially impossible undertakings through small-scale proposal drawings, paintings and models.
John was born in Dumfries in the southwest of Scotland and received an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991. He returned there to teach and now works with students from all year groups. He has taught and lectured in art colleges around the world including Kansas State University (USA), Kyoto Seika (Japan) and SMFA Boston (USA). He has won various awards for his work including the William Littlejohn Award, Lyon and Turnbull Award for painting, Royal Scottish Academy Award, John Gray award and the Ucross Foundation residency award.
