Jemima Brown graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1995. Her work in sculpture, installation and drawing has been widely exhibited in the UK and internationally. Past awards include a Fulbright Scholarship as a guest of the Graduate Program at University of California Los Angeles, as well as the Cocheme Fellowship at University of the Arts, London. She received the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award at Standpoint in London in 2011. Using assemblage sculpture and installation her practice investigates social structures and personal and political histories. Through a variety of media she employs suggested narrative, humour, social critique and formal sculptural decision making, to orchestrate the complex visual narratives involved in self- creation and the gender politics of domesticity. Habitually using manipulations of scale, surface and materials she both disrupts and highlight readings of primarily female cultural personae, from trapped housewives to Hollywood starlets and Greenham Common women.
After 25 years based in London, relocating in 2014 from London to Broadstairs brought fresh influences and perspectives to her practice. New ideas permeated the work played out against the backdrop of heightened contemporary anxiety over the divisiveness of political and cultural debate. The Great Indoors’ was a major solo exhibition in 2019 at Canterbury Christ Church University’s Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, whilst ‘Peace Camp’ in Newbury, Berkshire, in 2021/22 saw the culmination of her 10-year body of work celebrating the women of Greenham Common Peace Camp on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the establishment of the protest.
