Nigel Brown
Nigel Brown(ONZM) has established a reputation as one the most important figurative artists working in New Zealand and is acknowledged as New Zealand’s leading narrative artist. His distinctive works are a blend of symbolic and expressionistic approaches with a deep social concern.
An account of Nigel Brown's painting is often about what the
works say rather than the stylistic issues they raise. Though his
love of the medium is evident in the works and in his outstanding
powers of building a painting, his ends are more significant to him
than his means. He is driven to speak to us. Painting is for him a
language in which he shows us allegories of the world. Its not his
aim to tell us about the medium, or to make art that simply
reflects on itself. It is his aim to reflect on 'reality'-the
limitless social and natural drama in which we live and die.
excerpt Denys Trussell "Will to meaning" Art New Zealand #124
2007
Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Art in 1971, Nigel
Brown has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, He
has received numerous awards, commissions and residencies and is
represented in most New Zealand public collections and many private
collections. Brown was awarded the Order of NZ Merit for Services
to painting and printmaking in 2004 and in 2005 Brown was awarded a
three week residency in Russia hosted by NZ's ambassador in Moscow,
Stuart Prior.
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