"please please me new neon work by Mary-Louise Browne"
2009-01-27 until 2009-02-21
Bartley and Company Art
Auckland, , NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa)

Bartley and Company Art is very pleased to be able to present this new body of work by Mary-Louise Browne as its opening exhibition in Ghuznee Street. The exhibition represents her first foray into neon. Words are the constant feature of Browne's work and with this new work she continues her exploration of the metaphoric, material and visual power of language. The use of neon for the first time brings a new dimension with the direct and playful conflation of fine and commercial art practice. The messages here, however, are not those of commercial signs but openended found texts drawn from popular culture. Please please me, for example, references The Beatles hit single and title track of their first album and Dead Calm is drawn from the movie of the same name.

Mary-Louise Browne has a Master of Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours in sculpture from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. She has exhibited widely and is represented in major public and private collections. She is best known for her major public commissions – the most recent of which is the award winning granite bench transmutation work stretching the length of Lorne Street in Auckland. Another wellknown work is Body to Soul in the Wellington Botanical Gardens. Mary-Louise’s exploration of neon for this exhibition has been made possible by a grant from Creative New Zealand.

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