Mike Brown b. 1938

Also known as Michael Brown, Michael Challis Brown, Pancho Brown
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Significant late 20th century contemporary artist. One of the founders of the Annandale Imitation Realists of the early 1960s.
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exhibited at
Power to the people : the art of Mike Brown
Date
1995
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Power to the people: the art of Mike Brown
Date
1995
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Funded by Ericsson. This is the second occasion that the National Gallery of Victoria has honoured Mike Brown with an exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; Power to the people: the art of Mike Brown. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1995

Exhibition Catalogue:
Power to the people: the art of Mike Brown. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1995
ISBN0 7241 0176 4

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Mike Brown: what now?
Date
1982
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive;

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
In the labyrinth: drawings by Peter Booth and Mike Brown
Date
1981
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description

Regional Development Program, Visual Arts Board. 40 drawings by two artists.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Warnambool Art Gallery exhibition archive

Exhibition Catalogue:
Exhibition 7: In the Labyrinth: Drawings by Peter Booth and Mike Brown. Sydney: The Visual Arts Board, 1980
ISBN 0908024347

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Drawing
exhibited at
Drawings at Watters Gallery
Date
30 August 1978 - 16 September 1978
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Embracing chaos: Mike Brown, a survey of work
Date
1977
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; Power to the people: the art of Mike Brown. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1995; State Library of Victoria catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Embracing chaos: Mike Brown, a survey of work 1961 to 1977. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1977. [17]p: 34 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Mike Brown exhibition and students from the Ballarat College of Advanced Education
Date
1977
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description

The second artist-in-residence, the Ballarat College of Advanced Education, exhibited Browns works in front gallery. The opposite gallery was a constructed and painted environment by the art students working with Mike Brown.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting, Mixed media
exhibited at
Recent Australian Art
Date
19 October 1973 - 18 November 1973
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[print exhibition]
Date
1970
Place
Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond, Vic
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition
Date
19 February 1967
Place
Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery
exhibited at
Young Contemporaries Exhibition 1966
Date
20 April 1966 - 3 May 1966
Place
Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Young contemporaries, Contemporary Art Society
exhibited at
Mike Brown: paintin' a-go-go
Date
12 November 1965 - 24 November 1965
Place
Gallery A, Sydney, NSW
Description

Rated 'A.O.’ [Adults Only], on invitation. Raided by police, with obscenity charges brought against Brown

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Gallery A Sydney
exhibited at
A unique exhibition of avant-garde art
Date
22 May 1965 - 30 May 1965
Place
Latchford Showroom, Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Annandale Imitation Realists
Date
1962
Place
Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Subterranean Imitation Realists
Date
1962
Place
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition

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