Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown’s landscape paintings and drawings do not depict actual places, but construct imaginary ones through the arrangement of elements both real and imagined. Like empty stage sets they suggest something has just happened or is about to happen.
Nicholas Brown is Toni Heath’s most widely collected artist. As soon as he completed his MA at Slade School of Fine Art in 2004, Brown quickly found an appreciative audience for his work, with its’ timeless qualities and recurring themes, seemingly relating to the environment, but deliberately, ambiguously open, inviting the viewer to create narratives of their own, no matter how unsettling they may be.
In autumn 2004, TATE Britain commissioned a piece from Brown to accompany the JMW Turner exhibition. This work now forms part of their permanent collection.
Nicholas Brown was born in Teddington in 1980. He currently lives and works in London. In addition to TATE Britain, Brown has work in major private collections throughout Europe, the USA & the Middle East.
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Perhaps Nowhere, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2004 Exploring Landscape, Toni Heath Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2007 Young Masters, Toni Heath Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
2006 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2006 Now We Are Two, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2006 Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London
2006 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2005 Freehand, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2005 Manchester Art Show, G-Mex Centre, Manchester
2005 The Travel Show, Park Mews Studios, London
2004 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2004 Installation accompanying JMW Turner exhibition, Tate Britain, London
2003 The Salon Show, Columbia Rd, London
2002 Jamboree Beside the Sea, University Way, London
2001 Emu, The East London Gallery, Greengate Road, London
Education
MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of East London
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art
Collections
TATE Britain, London
Private collections throughout Europe, USA & Middle East