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Margaret Brown
Born
Australia
NationalityAustralia Australian
EducationAustralian National University
Known forCeramics

Margaret Brown is an Australian ceramic artist.

Brown's studio is in the locality of Kanoona near Bega on the south coast of New South Wales.[1][2][3]

Education[edit]

Brown has a (two year) Diploma in Visual Arts (Ceramics) from the Australian National University School of Art (2000).[4][5] Her studies focussed on porcelain, and she received a Technical Award.[2]

Works[edit]

Porcelain is Brown's preferred medium. Brown uses southern ice clay for thrown works, and also the neriage method.[4]

  • Supported porcelain dish by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue, neriage method, top view
    Supported porcelain dish by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue, neriage method, top view
  • Supported porcelain dish by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue, neriage method, side/under view
    Supported porcelain dish by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue, neriage method, side/under view

Brown's thrown porcelain works demonstrate a deliberately constrained two tone colouring in the clay used, and while Brown has used various colours, her signature work is the use of black for the effect.[2]

  • Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with red second colouring
    Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with red second colouring
  • Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with black second colouring
    Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with black second colouring
  • Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with black second colouring
    Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with black second colouring
  • Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue second colouring
    Porcelain mug by Margaret Brown, Australian, white with blue second colouring

Brown also carves thrown works to produce different degrees of translucentcy in the porcelain which when backlit produce various scapes, typically in the form of lamps showing fauna in various settings.[4][2]

  • Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 1, wren waiting to feed chicks at nest
    Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 1, wren waiting to feed chicks at nest
  • Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 2, wren chicks in nest
    Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 2, wren chicks in nest
  • Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 3, wren beside nest
    Carved porcelain lamp by Margaret Brown (Australian), view 3, wren beside nest

Career[edit]

Brown's pottery work started in wholesale domestic pottery for twenty years.[2]

Brown was a selected artist[1] and an exhibitor at the 2015 Australian Ceramics Triennale[a], the event being partnered by the National Gallery of Australia.

Brown has a number of on going regular and episodic showings in a number of galleries, including a solo exhibition in Canberra in 2014.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Brown gives public lectures by invitation, for example at the New South Wales Bega Valley Regional Gallery[b].

Margaret Brown is an accredited professional member of Craft ACT.[8][9]

Exhibitions and Showings[edit]

  • Craft ACT Gallery, 11 September to 25 October 2014[10]
  • Craft ACT Gallery, 2 November 2012 to 15 December 2012[8]
  • ACT Legislative Assembly Gallery, July 2015. [11][12]
  • ANU School of Art Gallery, 7 to 11 July 2015[13]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Canberra, 9 to 11 July 2015[6]
  2. ^ State regional gallery status attained 1995[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Market Place". Stepping Up - The Australian Ceramics Triennale. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e Johnson, Wendy (5 July 2015). "Ceramicist Margaret Brown Steps Up!". Lost Four Words. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. ^ "AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS COMMUNITY". Australian Ceramics. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Margaret Brown". Craft ACT. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  5. ^ "2000 ANU Canberra School of Art Graduating Student Exhibition". Australian National University and Canberra School of Art. December 2000. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ^ "Exhibitions". Stepping Up - The Australian Ceramics Triennale. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  7. ^ "In the beginning .. there was the Bega Valley Art and Craft Society…". Glass Central Canberra. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Margaret Brown @ Craft ACT Gallery". Craft ACT. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  9. ^ Johnson, Wendy (9 July 2015). "Ceramicists that clay together, stay together". HER CANBERRA. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  10. ^ "The Canberra Potter - Awaken" (PDF). Newsletter of Canberra Potters’ Society. October 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  11. ^ Musa, Helen (7 July 2015). "Arts / Canberra welcomes the world of ceramics". Canberra City News. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  12. ^ Colley, Clare (2 July 2015). "Capital Life: Ceramicists step up for triennale". Canberra Times. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  13. ^ "Belonging: Embodied Commentaries Inspired By Place". Eventfinda Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2016.


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