MARY-LOUISE BROWNE: The Conversation

In this exhibition Mary-Louise Browne continues to reference movies and music in her ongoing investigation of the interaction of language, visual imagery and the creation of meaning.

The title of the exhibition references Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film The Conversation. As the main character, a surveillance expert, is proccupied with intepreting fragments of a conversation recorded in a noisy crowded street, so too Browne presents viewers with words which on the surface are straightforward but in their connotations are ambigous, multi-layered and mobile.

Media as always in Browne’s work is subservient to conceptual purpose and the exhibition includes works in neon, bronze and on mirror. 

Browne has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and developed several major public art commissions including the staircase Body to Soul in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens and the granite bench work Byword which runs the length of Lorne Street in Auckland.