'Romancing the Streetscape' showcases evocative images of inner-city scenes in Melbourne, encouraging us to appreciate the metropolis around us and the overlooked in the everyday....
The Geelong contemporary art prize, a biennial acquisitive award for contemporary painting worth $30,000, has been awarded to Melbourne artist Andrew Browne....
This exhibition of new paintings by Andrew Browne brings together a series that collides deep landscape space, refulgent light and complex organic form....
They sometimes 'riff' on each other, in other instances they stand alone. In sum these instances of the artist's vision are a richly chaotic oscillation between the focused and the sprawling, the profound and the banal, the built and the natural....
Working with intaglio techniques such as traditional etching in hard-ground, aquatint, spit-bite, dry point and lift-ground, Browne explores subject matter on the periphery of urban environments – an extension of his broader artistic practice of recent years....