Images courtesy of the artist

As a starting point, Ian Brown’s practice attempts to investigate the advancements in technology and tests the progression and optimism associated with these developments against the problems of our everyday usage of them. Recent work has expanded to consider the relationship between the invented world and the natural world. For this exhibition Brown will use the gallery space and the street outside. A car is parked outside with a sunstrip window sticker declaring the first part of a statement “ Eventually I will rust and die” where a logo, a romantic name-check or a declaration of an affinity for ‘motorsport’ should be. Inside the gallery a replica model of the real car continues the text, on its own miniature sunstrip. The work raises issues surrounding the car as a tool to access the wilderness but also one which is capable of destroying parts of it.

For the book Ian produced the tale of an ill prepared Heavy Metal bands self-imposed relocation  to the wilderness, Wolfgang and the Birds. Their dependency on everyday household tools leaves them feeling isolated and vulnerable.

IAN BROWN

I live in the city (a song for enafors) 2. making my way to the front of the stage (top)

2008, Video (From the Wolfgang and the birds project)

Lifting The Three Colts

2006, Video 5 min 18