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.

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