Name: Sarah Browne
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Year of Birth: 1981
Areas of Work: Sculpture, Video, Research, Publishing
Website: www.sarahbrowne.info

Sarah Browne is an artist based in Ireland. Her research-based practice implicitly addresses ‘the economy’ as the dominant metaphor for contemporary social and political relations. An interest in forms of non-market exchange such as gifting, subsistence, subsidies and poaching leads to the creation of particular bespoke objects for circulation and use, to map existing but sometimes hidden social relations and affects. This concern with distribution also extends to writing and publishing.

Her work is often carried out with the participation of a ‘community’ where it is based, or creates a fictional or temporary ‘community’ for itself.

Scarcity Radio is a recent project developed with the Ikon Youth Programme in Birmingham, investigating links between metaphors of mining and telecommunications to challenge our understanding of scarcity, and how it might inform our reading of the 2011 riots in the city (all within the frame of a contemporary art gallery’s education programme).  The results of the project included a film made for free online viewing and an internet radio station.

Recent exhibitions and projects include Diabolic Loop, Galway Arts Centre, How to Use Fool’s Gold, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (all 2012); Second Burial at Le Blanc, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2011); Minimalism and Applied II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, and Unto This Last, Raven Row, London (both 2010). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and their collaborative practice, Kennedy Browne. She is currently developing a commission for the National Women’s Council of Ireland addressing the contemporary representation of women and work.

Forthcoming exhibitions include Invisible Violence at Artium, Vitoria, The Model, Sligo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; and The Hidden Surplus, a solo exhibition at CCA Derry-Londonderry in 2014. She is currently resident at Firestation Artist Studios, and lectures at IADT Dun Laoghaire and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.