The grease mark left by a passengers hair on a bus window (sparkler spikes )
Medium: limited edition digital print on paper. Archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310gsm (four prints and an artist's proof)
Travelling on the buses around Stockport, Jack uses a kit comprising of a fingerprint brush, powdered charcoal and sheets of sticky-back plastic to take direct transfer prints of the grease marks left by passengers' hair on the buses windows. The resulting images, digital prints on etching paper, are part of an on-going series.
Jack Brown works with (and in the spaces between) sculpture, painting, response to site, print, public action, drawing, photography and video.
New works begin with the overlooked, things from our collective reference pool. 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.
Interventions in the wider world, collaborations and manipulations, moments of poetry and flashes of meaning; Brown’s practice can be seen as an investigation into ways of making and how those made objects or moments interact with the world around them.
Biography
Born Stockport 1979
Studio at Paradise Works Salford
Recent shows include ‘Bushcrafting’ Second Act Gallery/Prism Gallery Blackburn, ‘A borrowing of bones’ Slug Town/Paradise Works Salford, ‘Knip’ Pink Gallery/ Juxtapose Art Fair Denmark, ‘Gertrude presents’ Gertrude London, ‘Psychogeology’ Signal Film and Media Barrow-in-Furness, ‘A Modest Show’ The Hamptons Air Fair. New York. USA, ‘Soaps’ Suihkulähde Galerie Helsinki.
Collections include the Salford University Art collection, Soho House and a number of private collections.