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Mariann
HUGHES BROWNE

Mariann Hughes Browne is a native of Co. Galway and is a visual artist working primarily in the medium of paint. She holds a B.A.A.D and B.A.F.A. ‘Painting’.

Mariann’s paintings explore the tension between abstraction and realism using water as a filter to visually distort and disintegrate the body suspended within it.

In the shallow painted space of her canvases, the subject pushes against our real space, is in itself recognizable as ‘real’ yet becomes abstract through the fractured vibrations of colour and the push and pull of opposites which create a narrative in the painted surface.

www.mariannhughesbrowne.com

EXHIBITIONS:

2011

Catalyst Arts Belfast

2010

Vent Collective, Belfast

Artquake, The Joinery, Dublin

2009

Nua Ealaoin na Samhain, Rosa Parks Gallery, Galway

National Culture Night, Lorg Printmakers Galway

Clifden Arts Festival

Nouveau Vadge, Back Loft, Dublin

GMIT Thesis Exhibition

2008

National Culture Night, Lorg Printmakers Galway

Points of View, Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival

GMIT, Thesis Exhibition, June 2008

‘Proximity’ Society of Art & Cultural Development GMIT (selected)

Lorg Printmakers Galway, Members Exhibition

2007

Clifden Arts Festival, Lorg Group Show






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I have always been drawn to painting the human figure, and for quite a while I concentrated on that. However I found that I wanted more than just anatomical accuracy in my paintings; I wanted to push reality into abstraction and what better way than painting the figure viewed through a filter. As a keen swimmer and scuba diver the obvious choice for me was water. I have been captivated by it all my life, preoccupied with both being in it, and in observing it. As an artist I am enthralled with its optical effects, it is unpredictable, and complicated in how it refracts light and reflects colours; it is basically a constantly changing lens, melting and disfiguring everything you can see through it. It is a visually infinite fascinating world.

Additional Information

Visual Arts Director 2009 - Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival

Memberships

VAI, Visual Artists Ireland

Lorg Printmakers, Galway

G126

Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Artspace Studios Galway

Publications

Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival: Events Programme 2009

Back Loft, Dublin: Show Catalogue 'Noveau Vadge' 2009

GMIT: Exhibition Catalogue 2009

Work included in the Arts Council funded short film ‘Earwig This?’ on the highlights of the 2008 Tuam Arts Festival.

Earwig! Tuam Arts Festival: Events Programme 2008

GMIT: Exhibition Catalogue 2008

'Proximity' GMIT: Society of Cultural Development Show Catalogue 2008

Collections

Private: Ireland, U.K., Spain and U.S.A