About us 
Mark Brown
Mark Brown is a Sydney based sound installation artist exploring notions relating to site, architecture and sonic atmospheres. His work has evolved into a poetic response to site; critiquing history; function; the viewer and unseen and unheard phenomena within space.
Statement by back in 5, 2006
"I have attempted to evolve my methodology of making place specific installation works beyond a formal architectural response to sites and an archaeology of their past and present function. Using digital media, recent works incorporate technological mediatory devices to further critique notions of site, sonic navigation, military technology and spatial trajectories."
The works I have produced for Match Box Projects relate to two specific coastal sites in Sydney Australia. Both sites share characteristics in their coastal positioning, their past and present industrial and military function.
At Voodoo Point on the Kurnell peninsula a group of chimney stacks stand tall overlooking a landscape of erosion, bush fire scarification, sedimentation and toxicity in the shadow of the nearby sprawling Kurnell oil refinery. Over the years strong off shore winds have battered the chimney stacks, dislodging and chipping fragments of industrial green paint from their surface. Having collected many of these paint fragments I have engraved onto their surface both their Longitudinal and Latitudinal location and the name of the place where they were found.
The abandoned coastal military defensive fortifications at Cape Banks
is also explored in this project. Specifically what was once the
engine room that once housed several large petrol generators. Some
twenty meters underground this room and connecting tunnels is a unique
subterranean space which is periodically semi submerged by water and
thus is difficult to navigate and reside within. Symbols and images in
the form of graffiti found on the walls of the hidden chamber have
been recorded and like hieroglyphs stand as inscriptions in a dark
tranquil place of possible violence and dark ritual expressions.
The works I have produced incorporate found artifacts, photographs and text-based engravings".
Mark Brown, 2006
Details of works pictured in Mark Brown Solo Gallery (L-R)
Voodoo Point fragments 1, photographs, found industrial fragments & engravings
Voodoo Point fragments 2, photographs, found industrial fragments & engravings
Voodoo Point fragments 3, photographs, found industrial fragments & engravings
Link
http://untitledbrown.zina.org/
Images © Mark Brown and Match Box Projects
