Artist: Jack Brown

Size: Length 100cm, width 30 to 45cms, depth 5cm.

Owners of the artworks will be able to deploy them when leaving their cars in large or busy car parks, helping them find their cars on their return.

Each artwork has a different collection of elements; different shapes, symbols and colours.

These artworks sit somewhere on the edge of art and life, of composition and real world usefulness. Each set of simple abstract forms becoming a visual aid, a useful artwork.

They are public artworks, sculptures covertly placed in the public realm.

The construction of the artworks, particularly the use of rivets and hoops allows elements of the artwork to move in the wind, further improving their visibility from distance.

Each artwork is weatherproof and hard wearing and can be fixed in in place by winding the car window up.

Jack hopes to develop this series further, as a real world product, aimed particularly at helping the elderly.

Artist Biography

Jack Brown is a visual artist working in (and in the spaces between) sculpture, painting, response to site, print, public action, drawing, photography and video.

New works begin with source material pulled from the edges of our collective reference pools. These starting points are altered, remade or relocated before being cast back into the world as artworks. Meaning emerges in this ‘remaking’, in the collision of source, extraction processes, material, making processes, media, situation, site and public interaction.

A covered fruit-machine, paintings of people who’s been drawn on when they’ve passed out drunk, scans of keyed cars, found objects pressed into floral foam, the smell of burnt toast, paintings of crossword grids, a karaoke song about empty galleries, soap sculptures for public toilets, rope-swing stereographs, trinkets left dangling in street grids.

Interventions in the wider world, collaborations and manipulations, moments of poetry and flashes of meaning; 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.

Born in Stockport in 1979, lives and works in Greater Manchester.

Postage: £5

*Order by the 16th of December to receive in time for Christmas

Photography by studio member Bridget Coderc