Sculpture and Expanded Practice
Email: brownem@staff.ncad.ie
Michelle Browne
B.A in Fine Art
Assistant Lecturer
Michelle Browne is an artist and curator based in Dublin. Her work encompasses a diverse range of media, including live performance, public interventions, video, sound, sculpture, writing, and collaboration. Her work is informed by feminist theory and explores small acts of resistance that question how society is organised and how we exist within current structures. The work is frequently made with an existing ‘community’ or with a group temporarily formed around a particular issue or interest. Her work is often developed site specifically and context informs much of her practice. Recently the work has take the form of non-fictional or semi-fictional narratives performed as tours or lecture performances. Some of her most recent work has looked at the politicisation of women in Irish society and how women become active citizens both through existing political structures and at home. The unifying element in the different forms of Browne’s practice is an investigation of how we co-exist together as a public of diverse individuals. At its crux is the question of what it means to live together; how society organises itself - socially, politically and spatially - and how these relationships play out in the public arena.
Selected exhibitions
My Brilliant Friend, Group exhibition, curated by Rayne Booth, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 2016
Art Works, Carlow Annual Open Exhibition, Group exhibition selected by Annie Fletcher & Clare Feeley, St Patrick’s College, Carlow, 2016
Future Histories, Ireland 2016 Commission, curated by Áine Philips and Niamh Murphy, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin 2016
Insider, On the Outside, curated by Catherine Marshall, Ballinglen Centre, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo,2016
Excuse me, I’m not finished, with The Performance Collective, NCAD Gallery 2015
Motivational Deficit, group exhibition curated by Dawn Williams, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 2014
The Workers, group exhibition curated by Linda Shevlin, Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon 2014
Using the Museum -Temporary Interventions, group exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland 2014
Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, curated by Brian Connolly University of Ulster Belfast 2014
The Year of the Flood, group exhibition curated by Michele Horrigan, Flood Gallery, Dublin 2013
The Workers Café, group exhibition curated by Rayne Booth, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 2013
Risk Lab, group exhibition, The Science Gallery, Dublin 2013
Connection – Perfolink Europa to Latin America, International Performance Art Festival, Cordoba, Argentina & Santiago, Chile curated by Alexander Del Re 2012
I Miss Bas Jan Ader, group exhibition curated by Lennard Dost & Daniel Dennis de Wit , Reformed Church, Nieuw-Beerta, Groningen, Holland. 2012
Interchange: Contemporary Irish video, group exhibition curated by Angela Duignan, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, USA 2012
Labour, Exhibition of Irish Female Performance Artists curated by Amanda Coogan, Helen Walsh & Christine Cadman, Performance Space, London; The Void, Derry; The Lab, Dublin 2012
Quantified Self, group exhibition curated by Sheena Barrett , The Lab, Dublin 2011
out on the sea was a boat full of people singing’ and other stories, Solo Show, The Lab, Dublin 2011
Jeu Parti, Solo Show, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim 2011
Public Commissions:
Now Thus Now Thus as part of The Invisible City, commissioned by Heart of Glass, St. Helens, UK 2016
Point of View - Public art commission for Linn Dara Mental Health Facility for Children and Young People Cherry Orchard. Commissioned by the HSE and managed by Create. 2015
Clarendon Street Temporary Public Artwork, in collaboration with New Graphic, as part of role as Artist Advisor to Dublin City Council’s Grafton Street Design team, 2011-13
Mind The Gap, Public Art Project, Commissioned by Absolute Fringe Festival, Dublin 2009
http://www.michellebrowne.net
http://www.theperformancecollective.com
http://www.themothershipproject.wordpress.com
Conferences and Symposia:
Power, Politics and The Perfomative, Adelaide Biennial Vernissage Events, Samtag Museum Adelaide
The Creative Museum, Irish Museums Association with UCD and Queens University, Belfast, 2015
Visual Art Ecology Limerick Conference, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, 2015
Intergenerational Conversations (with Create and Bealtaine Arts Festival), Visual Artist Ireland Get Together, IMMA, Dublin 2015
The Workers Symposium, Roscommon Arts Centre, curated by Linda Shevlin 2014
‘Slow Visibility: A Fugitive Papers discussion’ Tulca, curated by Valerie Connor Nov 2013
Art and Geography Conference National University of Ireland Galway 2013
Art and Geography Conference, University of Lyon 2013
Curating Arts and Health, The LAB, Dublin 2012
Current Investigations into Irish Visual Culture: NIVAL resources in support of contemporary art and design research, NCAD, Dublin. 2011
Public Art and Architecture, The LAB, Dublin 2011
On Collecting, Presenting and Mediating, The LAB, Dublin 2011
Public Art Talk Series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin 2010
Genius loci – Place: Location/Public/Art, Galway Arts Centre, Galway 2010
TAAK Summer School, Marfa, Texas, 2015
Welcome to the Neighbourhood, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, 2013
This is Tomorrow Residency, Warwick Arts Centre and Warwick University, 2013
Oileanra, Inis Oirr, Galway County Council Public Art Programme, 2012
In Search of, Winschoten, Holland, 2012
Leitrim Sculpture Centre Residency, Manorhamilton 2011
Broadcast Gallery with The Performance Collective, DIT Portland Row, Dublin 2011
Urban Wassani, Mombasa, Kenya 2008
Art @Work with Roscommon Arts Office 2008
InContext3, South Dublin County Council 2008
Border Crossings, Group exhibition co-curater with Dr. Mary Knights, SASA Gallery Adelaide & Galway Arts Centre 2016
These Immovable Walls, Performance Exhibition, curator, Dublin Castle, 2014
Create Collaborative Practice Networking Day, Dublin December 2013 & 2014
Bealtaine Visual Art Programme, curator, Bealtaine Celebrating Creativity As We Age, 2014
Between you, me and the four walls, Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2013
Living on The Edge: People, Place & Possibility TULCA , Galway 2010
Vital Signs Exhibition Art and Health in Context, for Create/Arts Council, Dublin 2009
OUT OF SITE presents Promenade, part of DCC Open Spaces Programme, Clontarf, Dublin 2008
OUT OF SITE, Festival of Live Art in Public Space, Dublin City Locations 2007
OUT OF SITE - OUT OF CENTRE, Rathmines Arts Festival, Dublin 2007
OUT OF SITE, Series of Live Art in Public Space, Dublin Fringe Festival 2006
Articles Published -
'Performance Art in Ireland - The New Millennium' in History of Performance Art in Ireland, Edited by Aine Phillips, published Intellect Books 2015
'Memories are made of this' in Fugitive Papers 5 - SLOW VISIBILITY: Framing process-led practices 2013
'New Éire' in Connections: Artists in Communication, edited by Susanne Bosch and Andrea Theis, published by Interface University of Ulster 2012
Reviews of Brian Duggan at The Hugh Lane & NCAD Graduate Show Circa Art Magazine 2009
Review of Sandra Johnston Exhibition at Third Space, Belfast - Breathing Backwards, Circa Art Magazine 2009
Review of work by Aine Philips and Anthony Haughey 'The Art of Love’ War' & 'How to Be a Model Citizen' Circa Art Magazine 2009
Review of Group site specific project by Sarah Browne, Gareth Kennedy, Anne McLeod, Alice Lyons, Christine Mackey in Co. Leitrim - 'After' Circa Art Magazine – 2008
Review of work by Brian Connolly at The National Review of Live Art – Circa Art Magazine 2008
'Learning through Doing' – Create News 2008 -
'What are Museums For?' - Visual Artists' News Sheet 2008
‘18 Happenings in 6 Parts’ Review of the restaging of Alan Kaprow’s seminal performance work as part of Performa 2007-http://recirca.com2007
