Iona Brown (b.1998) is an award-winning artist and graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Her practice is interdisciplinary with a focus on sculpture and her works have been selected by several artist bodies, including Visual Arts Scotland and the Society of Scottish Artists.
Brown’s installations portray spaces of beauty and brutality, uncertainty and vulnerability, in which one may feel uncomfortable or enticed to witness. Her work questions our human relationship of attractions and curiosities in nature, while maintaining reference to the human condition.
Inspired through her connection with the practicalities and aesthetic pleasures of nature, Brown’s practice involves high levels of collecting, organising, and embedding. Memento Mori and the continuum of materials pose an essential element to her practice.
Using bronze, taxidermy, flora, bird eggs, pearls, metal, concrete and found objects, Brown explores and evolves her practice through displaying objects of unworldly desire, controlling this desire with a level of uncertainty and curiosity.
Approaching various techniques of brutality with a conscious level of gentleness.
Encapsulating fragments of nature in a space between comfort and fragility.
Elucidating our internal balance in relation to desire and aesthetics, evoking both unease and awe.
In forms which become questioning, educating, distasteful and alluring all at once.
