Andrew Browne

Since the 1980’s, Andrew Browne has consistently explored a visual language drawn from both the natural and the man-made environment – often through formalist collisions of style and subject – with a specific interest in both the phenomena of illumination and poetics of the nocturne. Drawn as much from the happenchance of the everyday his field encompasses, to quote the artist ‘…a landscape alienated from the picturesque’. Often teasing an uncanny, strange or surreal mood, his work highlights both artificiality and subjectivity, often evoking the pervasive mortality at the root of all experience.

His works have variously been described as romantic, cool, eerie and spectral, uncanny, iconic, emblematic, odd and engaging. Identified as ‘…essentially psychic landscapes of apprehension’ they often give an impression of realism whilst co-opting the multifarious languages of abstraction.

His works, paintings and graphics, are represented in significant Australia-wide university and corporate collections as well as many public, institutional collections and private collections.