About this archive

What the archive covers

jamiejulienbrown.com documents the work of Jamie Julien Brown, an artist based in London. The material falls into three broad strands, all visible in the surviving images: site-specific painting on walls, floors, shutters and boards; hand-painted lettering and signage; and free-standing lights made of stacked glass on concrete bases.

What links them is a way of working rather than a single style. The descriptions on the original site keep coming back to the same idea: the piece is worked out for the place. In the Fetch office the colour gradients were planned around the existing architecture; in S.O.S an abandoned house was read as a ship in distress and given the flags to match; in Exterior Experiments pattern is fitted to whatever outdoor surface is available.

Where the material comes from

The text and photographs come from public records of the artist’s former website, which presented a portfolio of projects with short notes and a library of images. Project notes have been rewritten in the third person and kept to what the original notes and photographs actually show. Nothing has been added about clients, dates or places beyond what those notes say.

Many project pages originally carried a long sequence of photographs. Only the lead image of most projects was preserved, so most project pages here have one photograph. The White Totem Lights are the exception, with almost the full set.