Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence and Japanese popular culture all collide in Brown's art.
Early features on Trevor Brown's art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine. Since then his interviews and art have been featured in numerous publications worldwide, most recently on the cover of Gothic & Lolita Bible in Japan. His work also appears on a variety of book and record covers. He has illustrated for Coup de Grace an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist. Brown has also had several books of his art published.
Brown was involved in a copyright controversy with the electronic band Crystal Castles, who had begun using Brown's work in 2006 on merchandise without the artist's permission. A financial settlement was reached in 2008.
He is often compared with Mark Ryden in that he is known for child-like characters in various states of distress. However, themes in his work extend to car crashes, (reminiscent of J.G. Ballard's novel Crash), abattoirs, and Japanese pornography. His art is close in spirit to the Young British Artists such as Damien Hirst or Jake and Dinos Chapman. Brown acknowledges artist Romain Slocombe as a primary influence.
- Artwork by Trevor Brown
Trivia
- Brown married in Japan on January 17, 1994.
Publications
- Trevor Brown's Alice (2010)
- Rubber Doll (2007)
- Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss (2004)
- Medical Fun (2001)
- Temple of Blasphemy (1999)
- My Alphabet (1999)
- Forbidden Fruit (1997)
- Evil (1996)
Exhibitions
- 2010 "Time of Alice" (with Yuriko Yamayoshi), Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 "Babies Exhibition", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 "Rubber Doll", Subterraneans, Osaka, Japan
- 2007 "Rubber Doll", Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan
- 2005 "Sakura", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 "Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss", Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 "Valentine Fair", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003 "Retrospective", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna, Italy
- 2002 "New World" (with Keiti Ota), Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2001 "Medical Fun", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001 "Rope, Rapture and Bloodshed" (with Antoine Bernhart), Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna, Italy
- 2001 "Sexy Nurse", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 1999 "My Alphabet", Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1998 "Trevor Brown and Toshio Saeki", Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1997 "Forbidden Fruit", Azzlo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 "Japabon", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 "Evil Twin", NG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 "Doll Hospital", Keibunsha Art Box, Kyoto, Japan
- 1995 "Evil", NG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Selection of Album and Single Covers
- Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
- Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
- Urbangarde - Syojo Ha Nido Shinu (Girls Only Live Twice)
- Venetian Snares - Horse And Goat
- Venetian Snares - Find Candace
- Venetian Snares - Winter In The Belly Of A Snake
- Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
- Eyelicker Compilation
- Noise/Girl - Darkroom
- Noise/Girl - Discopathology
- Despair - Beautiful Japanese Sight
- John Zorn - The Gift
- Hoppy Kamiyama - ESP
- Dead Pop Stars - DPS
- Extreme Music From Africa Compilation
- Whitehouse - Just Like A Cunt
- Whitehouse - Quality Time
- Whitehouse - Another Crack Of The White Whip
- The Sadist - Last Live 1990
- Come Again II Compilation
- Coil - Hellraiser Themes
- Jarboe - Beast
- GG Allin - Watch Me Kill
External links
- Baby Art - Official Trevor Brown Site ( X Site hijacked 03/23 R/ )
- Recent interview with C.B.Liddell
- Trevor Brown: Baby Art
- Trevor Brown on Facebook.com
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