Andrew Browne (1960)

Biography
1960 Born Melbourne, Australia
1978-82 Bachelor of Education Art and Craft,
Melbourne College of Advanced Education
1981-83 Co-Director - Gotham City Art Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2000 Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
1999 Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
1995 Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1994 Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1992 Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1991 Michael Wardell, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1988 Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1984 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Gotham City Gallery, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000-01 Darkness and Light, McClelland Regional Art Gallery and touring to Benalla
Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery
2000 Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery2000 Swan Hill National Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery - Acquired
1999-00 Recent Acquisitions, White Horse Art Collection, White Horse Art Space.1999 Soft Geometry, 72 Napier Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne1999 The Savage Club Art Award1999 Nillumbik Art Award - Acquired1999 Fabric of Labour, Bulle Galleries and Trades Hall1998-99 Look Again - Contemporary Prints and Works on Paper, from the collection, National Gallery of Victoria
1998 Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery - Acquired1997 Kedumba Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales - Acquired
1997 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Drawing Festival - Acquired1997 Director’s Choice’ Art of the 1980’s, Michael Wardell Gallery, Richmond1997 Nature, curated by Ross Waterman, R.M.I.T. Project Space, Victoria1997 Visy Board Art Prize, Barossa Valley Food and Wine Festival, S.A.Constructed City, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Waverley City Gallery, Sale Regional Gallery, Mildura Regional Gallery, University of South Australia Art Museum, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery
1996 Sun Come Here, Rain Over There - Artists for Kids Culture Trust Benefit Exhibition and Auction, George Gallery
1996 Black Attack, Curated by John McPhee, The National Gallery of Victoria
1995 Decadence: A Fundraising Exhibition, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1995-96 Constructed City, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania (and touring)
1995 The MCA Collection, The Loti and Victor Smorgen Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney
1995 The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, University Art Museum, La Trobe University, Melbourne
1995-96 The Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (touring exhibition)
1995 Australian Art, Colonial to Contemporary, May/June 1995, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1994 The House, Art Show and Auction for the Lighthouse Foundation, Sotheby’s Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Australian Painting/Works from the Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection, Melbourne International Festival, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne
1993 A Selection of Australian Art, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1992 The CD Show, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1992 The Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria
1991 Recently Seen/Works from the Margaret Stewart Endowment, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria
1990 Art Vending Machine Project, Rhumbarella’s, Melbourne
1989 Heidelberg and Heritage, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
1989 Physical Culture, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1988 New Art Three, 13 Verity Street, Melbourne
1988 Studio Artists, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1987 Works on Paper, Reconnaissance Gallery, St Kilda

Selected Bibliography
Isobel Crombie, Simeon Kronenberg and Ngahiraka Mason, Darkness and Light - Looking at the Landscape, Exhibition Catalogue, 2000
Laura Murray Cree and Nevill Drury (ed), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000
Peter Timms, catalogue essay Andrew Browne - Painting Light, Bendigo Art Gallery 1998
The MCA Collection, The Loti and Victor Smorgon Gift of Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art 1997
Nevill Drury, Images 3, Contemporary Australian Painting, 1997
Jennifer Spinks, Review, Cast Magazine No. 8, Summer 1996
Natalie King and Simeon Kronenberg, Constructed City, Exhibition Catalogue, 1996
Robin McKenzie, Art Review, The Age 16/8/95
Peter Timms, Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition Catalogue, 1995
Nevill Drury, Images 2: Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Sydney 1994
Robert Rooney, Art Review, The Australian 2/4/94

Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art
Bendigo Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsular Regional Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Artbank
Western Mining Collection Sydney
Allen Allen & Hemsley
National Bank Collection
Kedumba Drawing Collection
Australian Equity Corporation
Whitehorse Collection
Nillumbik Collection
The John McBride Collection
Tokyo Private collections

Commissions
Howard Florey Institute, 1992
M.P.R.G. The Embellished Egg, 1997
Westin Hotel, Melbourne, 1999