United Kingdom,
Ian Brown RE
Elected Associate in 2021, Elected Fellow 2024
Studied at Canterbury College of Art and Camberwell College of Art (MA Printmaking)
1999-2010, Course Team Leader, FdA:Contemporary Practice at Hastings for the University of Brighton
Since 2010 Founder of Volcanic Editions a Fine Art Editioning workshop in Brighton specializing in screen printing and photopolymer etching. A member of the Printmakers Council, PRISM and LOOP
Exhibitions
2025 Presidents Choice, The Guardian Arts Centre, Beijing, China
PRISM, Four venue touring show, Rzeszow, Krakow (Centrum Gallery), Gdansk, Torun, Poland
2024 Krakow Triennial, Nova Huta, Krakow, Poland
3rd TKO International Miniprint, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Japan
2023 Thinking for Printing: Printmakers Council, Bankside, London (prize winner)
9th International Miniature Print Biennial, Ottawa School of Art, Canada
2022 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist)
The International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside, London (prize winner)
2021 PRISM, Krakow Triennial, Krakow, Poland
Ecologies of Change: Grief and Hope in a Changing World, ROSL, London
RA Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
2020 International Biennial Print Exhibition: 2020, R.O.C, Taiwan
PRISM 12, Moniska Rummet, The Swedish Printmakers Society, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 PRISM 11, INOC Ginza, Nankidori Gallery, Tokyo
2nd International Print Biennial, Yerevan, Armenia
2018 9th International Print Biennial Duoro, Portugal (invited artist)
Miniprint Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2017 PRISM 8, Connections, IX International Engraving Biennial, Cremona, Italy
3rd Global Print Biennial, Douro, Portugal, (invited artist)
2016 Air, Fire, Water, (Solo Show), Alberta Printmakers Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Masters of Contemporary Art: China & Britain, Yun C.A.C, Shanghai
PRISM 7, Gallery Spodki, Bialystok, Poland
Changsha Museum, Hunan, China
2015 Dust and Clouds: Dots and Pixels, (Two Man Show), KeriKeri, New Zealand
Impact 9, Hangzhou, China (invited artist)
2014 RA Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
PRISM 3, Spazio Ostrakon Gallery, Milan
Against Nature, Camberwell, Camberwell College of Art, London
2013 The First Twenty Years: A Collaboration in Print, St Barnabas Gallery, Cambridge
2012 Future Outlook and Global Vision of Print, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2011 The International Print Biennale 2011, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2010 Volcano: Turner to Warhol, Compton Verney
Work in Public Collections
V&A Prints and Drawings Collection, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Britain Artist Book Collection,
British Libraries Special Collection, Duoro Museum Printmaking Biennial Collection, Portugal
SMTG Krakov Poland, Kultur Dialog Yereven Armenia, Printmaking Museum Guanlan China,
Museo Ala Ponzone Cremona Italy, University of Guelph’s Chu-Bachinski print study collection Ontario
Artists Statement
Ian Brown has a long-standing interest in the natural world and a forensic fascination with the mediating processes of photography and print. The scale, power and beauty of elemental interactions have often provided the imagery for his prints. Increasingly, concerns reflected in the prints, are directed at the impact on human populations as we disrupt and corrupt the planet’s systems.

