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Details
- Date
- 2006
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on linen, black wood box frame
- Dimensions
- 153.0 x 381.0 cm
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Adrienne Gaha 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 219.2023
- Copyright
- © Andrew Browne
- Artist information
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Andrew Browne
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About
Since the 1980s, Andrew Browne’s paintings, photographs, drawings and prints have given form to nuanced relationships between natural and human-made environments. His interest in the poetics of illumination, the nocturnal and the everyday imbues his works with a psychic magnetism and sense of intrigue.
Untitled #2 is part of an extended series of paintings Browne describes as ‘nocturnes’ or ‘night pictures’, where luminous tree branches and orbs emerge from velvet-black voids. A meticulous process of painting, rubbing back and repainting gradually builds up the chiaroscuro of ghostly, tangled limbs against their eerie backdrop – a contrast reminiscent of night-time flash photography. This technique also abstracts the surface of the works with a gentle haze that is revealed up-close. Browne creates a push-pull effect within each work, striking a careful balance between a scene of terror, and one of mystery and seductive allure.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Night Pictures, Kaliman Gallery, Paddington, 03 Nov 2006–25 Nov 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Alan Dodge, Art Monthly Australia, 'A blackness beyond the branches: the paintings of Andrew Browne', pg.35-37, Canberra, Jun 2009, 35-36.
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