Nigel Roderick Brown
1949 Born Invercargill, NZ
EDUCATION
1971 Elam School of Fine Arts, BFA
Selected Exhibitions
1974 Driveway series Mollers Gallery
1975 Table series and Postman series Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1976 ‘Bedroom series Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1977 Man and the Land’ and ‘Lemon Tree’ series Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1978 ‘From Suburbia’ series
1980 Ferns, Cars and Rockets Series Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1981 Trampers’ series. ‘Clothesline’ paintings
1985 ‘Living in the Bomb Age’ Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1987 Works in Print series Wellington City Art GalleryWorks in VIII Art Biennale Chile
1989 Guest Artist Nelson Suter Art Society
1991 ‘Sure to Rise’ Series
1996 ‘Pacifica VI’ Warwick Henderson Gallery Auckland
1998 Black Fern Rising Series Warwick Henderson Gallery
1999 ‘Antarctica’ Warwick Henderson Gallery Auckland
2001“I Am” Warwick Henderson Gallery, Auckland
2002 “This Human Place”, A Survey Exhibition 1970 – 2002 Warwick Henderson Gallery
2003 I AM III series Warwick Henderson Gallery
2004 Human Condition, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
2005 Yeah Human, Warwick Henderson Gallery
2006 Worded Image, Warwick Henderson Gallery
2007 Will to Meaning, Warwick Henderson Gallery
2007 Nine Artists in Fiordland, Caselberg Trust
2008 Lamp, Warwick Henderson Gallery
2009 The Haydn Lithos, Touring
2004 Awarded Order of NZ Merit for Servics to Painting and Printmaking
Selected Commissions
1995 Major stained-glass commission
Mary’s Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland
Selected Bibliography & Publications
Barr, Jim and Mary, Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Alistair Taylor, 1980
Bett, Elva, New Zealand Painting; a Modern Perspective, Reed Methuen, 1986
Brown, Warwick, ‘Gains and Losses’, Art New Zealand’ 28
Trussell, Denys, ‘Nigel Brown and the Iconography of Consequence’ Elva Bett Newsletter No. 10
O’Brien, Greg, Nigel Brown, Random, 1991
Helen Pearson, "Truth Beyond Appearances", Editor Pub Interactive Education Ltd, 2004