Young British artist Alice Browne (1986, Oxford, UK) takes the idea of camouflage as a starting point for considering identity shifts. With reference to the dichotomy of standing out and fitting in, both compositionally and socially, Browne dryly employs forms that reinforce models of duality and continuity in a series of new paintings and works on paper.
The painted works blend background and foreground, colour and pattern. These works use the time-fluid void of the canvas to reconsider some of the forms that embellished Browne’s childhood alongside some of the tropes of European art history.