About Marcus Brownlow

Marcus Brownlow (b. 1965, UK) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Working principally with photography, code and text, Brownlow's practice occupies the interstitial space between art and science. A former biologist and data scientist, he combines scientific and artistic research methodologies to explore the nature of the photographic image in a post-photographic world.

Brownlow holds a Ph.D. from The University of Adelaide (1997) and an M. Litt. in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art (2022).

His current practice rejects photographic realism in favour of rules-based visual abstraction. The resulting photographic images, made without human intervention, are a painterly meditation on colour, landscape and place.

Recent exhibitions include RGB GLW (Glasgow 2024); Colour (Glasgow, 2023); It's easier to breathe underground (Skopje, 2022); Strewn Taboos (Glasgow, 2022); 20x20 (Sheffield, 2020); IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (Berlin, 2019). He completed the PICTURE BERLIN artist residency programme in 2012.

Brownlow is a Fellow of the Governor's Leadership Foundation (South Australia), a member of the Australian Network for Art and Technology and the National Association for the Visual Arts. He has also served as a guest assessor at The Centre for Creative Photography.

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