Women operating stock tickers and stock exchange boards, New York, 1918. Research image for Second Burial at Le Blanc, 2011.
Sarah Browne is an artist based in Ireland. Her practice includes exhibitions, public projects, publishing and critical writing, and she also works collaboratively with Gareth Kennedy as Kennedy Browne. Browne has participated in residencies and artist exchanges in Finland, Thailand, Japan and the UK and is currently resident at Firestation Artist Studios, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include 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.
Sarah Browne’s research-based practice implicitly addresses ‘the economy’ as the dominant metaphor for contemporary social and political relations. She is concerned with the creation or documentation of intentional economies and temporary communities, typically small-scale systems influenced by emotional affects. 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. This work is typically domestic in character, using technologies such as knitting, flower-pressing, letter-writing, carpet-knotting and film-making, and is often carried out with the participation of a ‘community’ where it is based, or creates a fictional or temporary ‘community’ for itself.
