Mary-Louise Browne

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Mary-Louise Browne (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist, best known for her public word ladders, and other works using text. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Browne graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1982 with an MFA. [3] [4]

Career

Browne has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, and is known for her public commissions including the award-winning Byword, a series of nine stone benches running the length of Lorne Street in Auckland. [5] Browne has had a text-based conceptual practice and uses text in lieu of imagery to convey social and political commentaries. [6]

Browne was the first director of Auckland artist-run gallery space Artspace, opened in reaction to the direction Auckland Art Gallery was taking with its move towards high-end imported historical shows of artists like Claude Monet. Browne was succeeded as a director by Priscilla Pitts, an art historian. [7]

Notable works

Body to Soul in the Wellington Botanic Garden Wellington Body to Soul.jpg
Body to Soul in the Wellington Botanic Garden

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