Vanessa Brown is an artist who works in sculpture and installation. Her primary medium is steel and she is interested in challenging its historical associations with industry, war, and monument, by focusing its subtler qualities such as pliability, versatility, and slightness. The imagery in her work draws from various sources including landscapes, historical crafts, recurring symbols from her own dreams, feminized labour, gestures of comfort, and ideas of escape.

Vanessa Brown is based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Brown graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University, Vancouver and was the recipient of the John C. Kerr Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Visual Arts. She has exhibited in Canada, Germany, the USA, and Mexico, notably with solo and group exhibitions at The Esker Foundation, Calgary; at the Nanaimo Art Gallery; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and King Street Station, Seattle. Her works can be found in numerous corporate and private collections.

EDUCATION

Emily Carr University, CST, Vancouver, Canada: BFA 2013
Universtät der Künste, Berlin, Germany: Exchange / Erasmus Program 2011

COLLECTIONS

Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Private collections