
Peace Rules the Day where Reason Rules the Mind 1986
Colin Brown (b.1962)
University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College Collection
Painter, artist in construction and collage, born in Dundee, Angus, raised in Kingussie, Inverness-shire, who attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, 1982–7. After periods in Glasgow and Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1995 settled in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. Brown gained a RSA John Kinross Scholarship, 1987, and a Pollock-Krasner Award, 1996. He took part in numerous group exhibitions, including Diadem Centenary, Perth (second prize), 1984; RSA and Compass Gallery, Glasgow, from 1986; Fine Art Society, Glasgow, from 1991; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, 1995; and Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, 1997. Had a solo show at Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, 1989, later ones including Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen, 1997, with frequent solo exhibitions in Germany.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)