Don Brown

Don Brown presents new works from his on-going series of sculptures of his wife, Yoko. The pure white figures, recreate Yoko at half or three quarter scale in natural poses. One has her sitting slumped on a chair, while elsewhere she perches on the edge of a table. In Double Yoko it is as if two identical twins stand together, one has her hand round the other’s waist, while the other returns the gentle embrace by resting her hand on her companion’s shoulder.

The natural way in which Brown allows the body to seek and offer support, from furniture, from another person, from itself, contrasts with the conventions of classical sculpture, where celebration of physical prowess called for the figures to stand strong. Into gestures and movements that were once theatrical and posed, Brown has injected a sense of fluidity, creating figures that appear ephemeral, human. While Brown pares down towards the essence of beauty, Yoko retains vestiges of her humanity, including her vulnerability, sexuality and dignity.

1962 Born Norfolk
1983-85 Central School of Art, London
1985-88 Royal College of Art, London

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Yoko, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2006 Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
2005 Vacio9, Madrid
2004 Sadie Coles HQ, London
2001 Commission for Spiritualised CD cover
2000Yoko, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Yoko 1 and Yoko 2, installation at The Admiralty restaurant, Somerset House, London
1999Don, installation at Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes, England
1998 Don, permanent installation at Mash restaurant, London
Don, Inaugural Sculpture Court Installation, Jerwood Space, London
1997 Don, Sadie Coles HQ, London
1996 Bavaria (with Stephen Murphy), Hayward Gallery, London
Missiles (with Stephen Murphy), Lisson Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions
2007 The Naked Portrait, 1900-2007, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Women of Europe, The Citadelle of Saint Tropez, France
2004 Body Language, Pangolin Gallery, Chalford
2003 London Institute Gallery, London (curated by Peter Blake)
2002 Words, Counter, London
Summer Exhibition 2002, Royal Academy of Arts, London (room curated by Gary Hume)
Second Skin, Henry Moore Gallery, Leeds, England (cat.)
2001 Home, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (cat.)
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (room curated by Peter Blake)
2000 Tragic Data, Lux Gallery, London
Anyone Could Be Anyone in Most Ways, Galerie Brigitte Trotha-Rippentrop, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London
L’invitation a la ville/Invitation to the City, Brussels 2000, (cat.)
1999 Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles HQ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Group show, Patrick Callery, New York
In vitro, Galerie Zurcher, Paris
1998 From Within, Juliet, Trieste, Italy
British Figurative Art, Part Two: Sculpture, Flowers East, London
Feeringbury VIII, Cultivated (curated by Stephen Hepworth) (cat.)
Interactive, Amerada Hess, London (cat.)
1997 Package Holiday, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
A Sense of Scale, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (touring) (cat.)
Public Relations: Neue Britische Fotografie, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany (cat.)
Mot + Van Den Boogaard Gallery, Brussels
1996 A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, ICA, London
Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton & Todd Gallery, London (cat.)
Other Men’s Flowers, Aurel Schiebler, Cologne, Germany
Eyes of the City, Photographers’ Gallery, London
Artisti Britannici a Roma, Galleria dell’Oca, Rome (cat.)
1995 Hardcore (Part II), Factual Nonsense, London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali, New York
B-Movie, Nicole Klagsburn at San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco (CA)
1994 Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam
Beyond Belief, Lisson Gallery, London
Young Artists of Britain, Eigen+Art at IAS, London
1993 Four Artists, 20 Dering Street, London
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
Lucky Kunst, Silver Place, London
Close Up, West 42nd Street, New York
1989 Artsite Gallery, Bath, England
1988 London Group Show, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

Collections
Celebrity Cruises Art Collection
Tate Collection
Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, NL