Jack Brown
I am a contemporary artist, working across a range of mediums, based in Manchester. My work looks at the overlooked, things that should be given more than a passing glance, moments that would benefit from magnification. The works I make are often found, realised, made or placed in the public realm.I also work with other people; collaborate, teach, coordinate, lead public realm projects and facilitate artist networks. As a counterbalance to direct interactions that punctuate my public projects, my work plays with ideas of placement, slightness, observation and distant collaborations. Palm sized constellations made of plasticine and chicken wire, brass rings attached to cylindrical objects in the public realm, found notes becoming silk hankies, holding up a sculpture in a carpark, artworks made out of the grease marks left on bus windows by passenger’s hair, sprawling schools projects about the power of collective construction, looped videos of people’s movements and gestures, hanging trinkets in street grids, posting artworks to people without telling them who it’s from, working with 20 investment bankers to make a room filling painting about mistakes.
Interventions in the wider world, collaborations and manipulations; my practice can be seen as an investigation into ways of making and how those made objects or moments interact with the world around them.