Don Brown
Don Brown, born in Norfolk in 1962, studied at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1988. The British sculptor is best known for his portraits of his wife Yoko, who has been at the centre of his work for many years. Brown’s figures are characterised by their contemplative presence, delicacy and almost naturalistic realism. In contrast to the idealised representations of classical sculpture, his work focuses on the human body, its individual proportions and postures. Brown works primarily with materials such as bronze, coloured acrylic and silver.
For Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg, Don Brown created Yoko XXXVI in 2014, his first work in porcelain. The figurine in white biscuit porcelain continues his longstanding series of portraits of his wife Yoko, translating Brown’s precise, naturalistic visual language into a new material. Created in close collaboration with Nymphenburg’s master workshops, the work is rendered in meticulous detail, with the delicacy of the biscuit porcelain particularly enhancing the refinement and precision characteristic of Brown’s sculptures. Brown modelled the first five figures himself by hand, followed by a limited edition produced in Nymphenburg’s master workshops.
