# Sarah Browne

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**Sarah Browne** is a [contemporary](/source/Contemporary_art) [Irish](/source/Irish_people) artist who works in public art, performance, sculpture, and collaboration.[1][2][3] She represented Ireland with a collaborator at the 2009 [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale).

## Work

The [Arts Council of Ireland](/source/Arts_Council_(Ireland)) describes her as "an artist whose practice is concerned with non-verbal, bodily experiences of knowledge and justice."[4] Browne's "research-based practice investigates the materiality of knowledge, attending to the intersection of invisible structures of power with bodily experience".[2]

## Career

Browne has worked for many years collaboratively with Gareth Kennedy under the name **Kennedy Browne**.[5][6] The duo exhibited together, and separately, at the Irish Pavilion at the 53rd [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale) in 2009.[7][8] Browne "commissioned a hand-knotted carpet from [Donegal Carpets](/source/Donegal_Carpets)" and "as Kennedy Browne they’ve made a video work in which volunteers, situated in the iconic setting of [Liberty Hall](/source/Liberty_Hall), narrate a text taken from [Milton Friedman](/source/Milton_Friedman)’s commentary on the virtues of the [free market](/source/Free_market)."[9] They also exhibited 3 films as the *Redaction Trilogy* at the [Hugh Lane](/source/Hugh_Lane_Gallery), 2019–20.[10] Kennedy Brown has work in the collection of the Irish Arts Council.[11]

She also collaborated with Irish artist Jesse Jones for a project responding to the [Repeal the 8th](/source/Thirty-sixth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland) campaign, titled *In the Shadow of the State.*[12][13]

In 2019 Browne created the public art commission, *Public Feeling,* for [South Dublin County](/source/South_Dublin). "Sarah Browne’s *Public Feeling* explores the health impacts of austerity on the individual and collective body, the politics of “resilience”, and considers the gym or leisure centre as a space where the bodies of citizens are trained, transformed and cared for."[14][1] Browne was included in the [Limerick City Gallery of Art](/source/Limerick_City_Gallery_of_Art) exhibition *Irish Women Artists since 1984*[15] and curated the [TULCA Festival of Visual Arts](/source/TULCA_Festival_of_Visual_Arts), [Galway](/source/Galway) in 2020.[16]

Browne currently teaches sculpture at [NCAD](/source/National_College_of_Art_and_Design), Dublin.[12]

## Bibliography

- Kennedy Browne and Michael Dempsey (Eds). *The Redaction Trilogy*, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2019.
- Luigi Fassi, Katerina Gregos, Steirischer Herbst (Ed.) *Liquid Assets: In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital,* Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2013.
- *The Myth of the Many in the One,* artist publication, cottagelab, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9554976-7-4
- Katarzyna Kosmala, 'Imagining Masculinities: Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture' in *Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality,* Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0415807043
- Glenn Harper & Twylene Moyer (Ed.) *Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works / New Territories / New Publics (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture)*, ISC Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0295993393
- Kennedy Browne: IrelandVenice, monograph produced as part of the 53rd Venice Biennale, The Dock, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9553950-3-1
- *How Capital Moves*, artist publication, cottagelab, 2011.
- Browne, Sarah, et al. *How to use fool's gold*. Dublin: Project Press, 2011. ISBN 1904864759
- Daniel Birnbaum (Ed.), ‘Making Worlds/Fare Mondi’, official catalogue for the 53rd Biennale Di Venezia, Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 978-8831796965
- *SPACE SHUTTLE. Six Projects of Urban Creativity and Social Interaction,* PS², Belfast, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9555358-0-2
- *[EV+A](/source/EVA_International) give(a)way*, Gandon Editions, Cork, 2004.

## References

1. Ruane, Lynn. ["Behind every gym selfie and perfect dead lift is a sleepless night and an unpaid bill"](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/fitness/behind-every-gym-selfie-and-perfect-dead-lift-is-a-sleepless-night-and-an-unpaid-bill-1.4079172). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Sarah Browne"](http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/7990/sarah-browne). *Dutch Art Institute*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. Holland, Kitty. ["Exhibition gives value to the work women do"](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/exhibition-gives-value-to-the-work-women-do-1.1564819). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Visual Arts Interview: Sarah Browne"](http://www.artscouncil.ie/visual-arts/interviews/sarah-browne/). *www.artscouncil.ie*. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. Cullinan, Emma. ["Fire Station: a space that helps artists think big"](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/fire-station-a-space-that-helps-artists-think-big-1.1595058). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Kennedy Browne"](https://artpil.com/kennedy-browne/). *ARTPIL*. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Sarah Browne, Gareth Kennedy, Kennedy Browne (2009)"](https://www.cultureireland.ie/venice/event/sarah-browne-gareth-kennedy-kennedy-browne-2009). *www.cultureireland.ie*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. Ilaria, Gianni (Autumn 2009). ["Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy: The Republic of Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale"](http://www.circaartmagazine.website/wp/wp-content/from%20VAC/PDFFiles/44244_129/c129.pdf). *Circa*. **129**: 103–4.

1. Falvey, Deirdre. ["Artists to bring carpet and buskers to biennale"](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/artists-to-bring-carpet-and-buskers-to-biennale-1.757150). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-08-29.

1. Aidan, Dunne. ["Playful experiments on the serious business of data"](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/playful-experiments-on-the-serious-business-of-data-1.4076730). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Arts Council Collection | Gareth Kennedy & Sarah Browne"](http://artscouncil.emuseum.com/view/people/asitem/73264/Gareth%20Kennedy%20&%20Sarah%20Browne?pos=11&searchKey=K&t:state:flow=4c4b6a12-5f6d-47b0-878b-6b8bbc156845). *artscouncil.emuseum.com*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["'In the home and in the 8th. That's where women belong in the Constitution'"](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/in-the-home-and-in-the-8th-that-s-where-women-belong-in-the-constitution-1.2784516). *The Irish Times*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. Steenson, Chris (2016-11-04). ["Towards a Post-Patriarchal State | The Visual Artists' News Sheet Online"](https://visualartistsireland.com/towards-a-post-patriarchal-state). Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["PUBLIC FEELING"](https://www.incontext4.ie/projects/sarah-browne). *In Context 4*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women Artists and the Politics of the Body, 1984 to the Present"](https://www.artforum.com/artguide/limerick-city-gallery-of-art-7652/elliptical-affinities-irish-women-artists-and-the-politics-of-the-body-1984-to-the-present-182389). *www.artforum.com*. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

1. ["The Law Is A White Dog - TULCA 2020"](https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/117371/the-law-is-a-white-dog-tulca-2020). *Galway Advertiser*. October 8, 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

## External links

- [Artists' website](https://www.sarahbrowne.info/)
- [Kennedy Browne site](https://www.kennedybrowne.com/publications)

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