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Smithson Gallery presents a curated selection of works by UK-based painter Julian Brown. Brown's paintings travel across paper and canvas, inscribed in watercolour and acrylic. The compositions strive to break away from the predetermined grids that underlie them, a constant negotiation between discipline and disarray.

Brown describes his motifs expanding into his paintings 'like a fraction of experience'. Abstract childhood memories, familial cultural objects, and family celebrations coalesce to form works fizzing with feeling. This imbued emotion presents a challenge to the …