ANDREW BROWNE

ANDREW BROWNE
The space between... 2009
Oil on linen

My works have been variously described as romantic, cool, eerie and spectral in quality, morally engaged, uncanny, iconic and emblematic, odd and engaging. They have been identified as essentially psychic landscapes of apprehension but also of giving the impression of realism while using, ostensibly, the language of abstraction.My interest is in creating an interpretive and introspective space via an engagement with a lived experience of the contemporary landscape.

While Melbourne based artist Andrew Browne works primarily in painting and photography, his paintings tread a fine line between the styles of both realism and abstraction. They also explore relationships that encompass photography, the historical parameters of landscape painting, issues dealing with technological and social change as well as and our ambiguous and contradictory place within our evolving environment.