Rhys Brown b. 1993, London
Representation: Ting Ting Art Space (Asia)
Born in South London and raised in Stockwell, Rhys began his artistic practice as a teenager doing graffiti, tagging the streets in and around the council estate where he grew up. His street work drew upon overheard conversations and his own stream of consciousness, incredibly creating a SAMO-style of poetry before Rhys had formally learned of Basquiat and the 1970s New York street scene.
Upon graduating from Croydon School of Art in 2014, Rhys took his practice from the streets to a purpose built studio, opening his work up to unexpected techniques and concepts. During college and university, Rhys turned his focus from illustration and screen printing to Gyotaku printing, a traditional Japanese process made extremely difficult by the unpredictable surfaces found on the nostalgic plush toys which Rhys, a life long fan of toy culture, uses as subjects.
Education
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Croydon School of Art, 2011 – 2014
Artist-in-Residence, Screen Printing, Croydon School of Art 2014 – 2015
Exhibitions and Auctions
March 2024, Art Central. Hong Kong Art Week. Group exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Hong Kong.
December 2023, Showcase. Solo exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Taipei.
November 2023, ART021. Group exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Shanghai.
September 2023, ‘the cool kids are always late’. Seoul Art Week. Solo exhibition, Aile Gallery, Seoul.
May 2023, ART SOLO. Solo exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Taipei.
March 2023, ART TAINAN. Group exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Tainan.
February 2023, ‘Daydreaming Palette.’ Group exhibition, Aile Gallery, Seoul.
October 2022, ART TAIPEI. Group exhibition, Ting Ting Art Space, Taipei.
October 2022, ‘Individuality’. Group exhibition, Aile Gallery, Seoul.
March 2022, ‘Humanity’. Group charity NFT exhibition to benefit Ukraine. RedKite.
March 2021, ‘2021’. Group exhibition, 十方藝術空間 Galerie OVO, Taipei.
December 2020, Goldfinger Design, Studio Peover, London.
June 2020, ‘Tell my friends I love them’. Solo exhibition, Waluso Gallery, London.
March 2020, ‘VR Scraps’. Group charity exhibition to benefit the NHS, Waluso Gallery, London.
February 2020, ‘Slumber’. Solo exhibition, Waluso Gallery, London.
June 2020, Digard Auction, Post-War Contemporary, Paris.
November 2019, ‘Good things come in small packages’. Group exhibition, Semi Skimmed Gallery, London.
July 2019, Digard Auction, Urban Contemporary, Paris.
June 2019 - CREAM Gallery, Paris.
February 2018 – October 2019, Pure Evil Gallery, London.
October 2016, Moniker Art Fair, London.
May 2012, ‘BBC One Paints… The Diamond Jubilee’. Group exhibition (‘The Seventies’) and documentary television special, BBC One, London.
Additional Experience
8 sold-out solo and duo collaboration print releases, Waluso Gallery, London.
2 sold-out solo print releases, Art Republic, Brighton.
Founder and Creator at Joyride Editions. Founded in June 2020, Joyride Editions has produced and designed silk screen prints and handmade sculptures for numerous international artists including Lotta (Japan), Euan Roberts (UK) and Bell Nakai (Japan).
Artist and Gallery Assistant at Pure Evil Gallery. Gallery assistant to Pure Evil (Charley Edwards) from 2014 to 2019.