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Train home 1962

Artwork Train home this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint and paper on board, created in 1962-01-01
Accession No.
2022.129
Date Created
1962
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
77 x 84.5cm
Media Category
Painting
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint and paper on board
Place Created
Sydney, NSW
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Mike Brown believed firmly in the democratisation of art. He transformed the everyday clutter and chaos of graffiti and the sign-laden vistas of urban life into an art for everyone. Train home 1962 is a classic early work, comprised of 12 numbered portraits on paper, adhered in a grid pattern on board. The faces are colourful and rudimentary, perhaps referencing individuals travelling on suburban Sydney trains. The subjects’ improvised forms reflect Brown’s mining of the subconscious as a source of creativity.

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© Estate of Mike Brown

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

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