Irene Brown is a site specific artist specialising in temporary installations and permanently sited public art. All her artworks are unique pieces made in response to each individual site. Many previous public art projects have been concerned with providing iconic imagery for developing, or new community spaces. These range from brand new business parks to areas of regeneration within established communities in cities and rural locations. Her work is also concerned with ideas of the specialness or inviolability of a site - how a regular space can be transformed into one of pilgrimage and power. It is important that the nature of her work and the imagery, symbols and associations used to develop as a unique response to research conducted on each individual site. Recent installation work has used optical illusions to engage the viewer and encourage a sense of magic, visions or special phenomena. Anaglyph (three dimensional illusions viewed through red and green lenses) and lenticular (the image looks 3d or 'flis' from one image to another depending on the angle it is viewed from) systems have been adapted and developed for large scale digital photo collage installations. These works promote a direct physical interaction from the viewer and physically choreographs the space.
'The South East Northumberland Public Art and Design Initiative, or Inspire, was set up in 2003 to improve the built and natural environment in South East Northumberland through the involvement of artists and better design. By bringing good design to the public realm the aim is to change negative perceptions, contribute to a contemporary environment and raise aspirations for the future. Through these actions, it is hoped that people will be encouraged to stay in the area and take pride in it, and that others will tempted to move to South East Northumberland.
Inspire is a partnership of three local authorities - Wansbeck District Council, Blyth Valley Borough Council and Northumberland County Council - the South East Northumberland North Tyneside Regeneration Initiative (SENNTRi) and Northumberland Groundwork Trust. It has the support of Commissions North and Northern Architecture. Funding for the project comes from the local authorities and the Northumberland Strategic Partnership via the Single Programme.'
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