Bodies, art history, a little chaos… And a lot to say.
Sally Brown doesn’t seem particularly interested in keeping things in neat little boxes. Her practice moves between drawing, painting, collage, body prints and textiles, bringing together women’s bodies, art history, personal experience and a healthy dose of feminist troublemaking.
Her recent works are filled with naked bodies, handwritten notes, bright colours and references to the women artists and movements that came before her. A drawing might sit alongside a tribute to Yoko Ono, a quote from the Guerrilla Girls, or a colourful take on another artist’s work. It feels a little like stepping inside Sally’s sketchbook. Messy, curious and full of ideas.
At the centre of it all is the female body. Naked, looked at, controlled, celebrated, questioned. Sally explores the tension between vulnerability and agency, intimacy and spectacle, and the ways women’s bodies have been represented, remembered and reclaimed.
There’s something particularly fun about the way she plays with art history. She doesn’t treat it like a museum where you’re supposed to behave quietly. She pulls references apart, puts them back together and makes them her own, sometimes with a pencil, sometimes with paint, sometimes with yarn.
And maybe that’s what brings all these different pieces together. A refusal to separate the personal from the political, the serious from the playful, or the body from the conversation around it.
We’re into it. ♡
Discover more of Sally Brown’s work:
sallyjanebrown.com
Instagram:
@sallery_art
