Trevor Brown (artist) explained
Trevor Brown (born 1959) is an English artist from London but based in Japan. His "occasionally shocking" work explores issues of paraphilia.[1]
Life and work
Brown has been living and working in Japan since 1994.
His work explores paraphilias, such as lolicon, ero guro, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence, misogyny, 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, Shade Rupe's Funeral Party 2, 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.
Publications
- Evil (1996)
- Forbidden Fruit (1997)
- My Alphabet pp (1999)
- Temple of Blasphemy (1999)
- Medical Fun (2001)
- Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss (2004)
- Rubber Doll (2007)
- Babies Book (2007)
- Trevor Brown's Alice (2010)
- Girls War (2013)
- Pandora (2015)
- Trecos (2017)
- La Nursery Noire (2019)
- Pastel Poison (2023)
Exhibitions
- 1995 "Evil", NG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 "Doll Hospital", Keibunsha Art Box, Kyoto, Japan
- 1996 "Evil Twin", NG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 "Japabon", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 "Forbidden Fruit", Azzlo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1998 "Trevor Brown and Toshio Saeki", Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1999 "My Alphabet", Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2001 "Sexy Nurse", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001 "Rope, Rapture and Bloodshed" (with Antoine Bernhart), Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna, Italy
- 2001 "Medical Fun", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002 "New World" (with Keiti Ota), Merry Karnowski Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2003 "Retrospective", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna, Italy
- 2004 "Valentine Fair", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 "Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss", Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan
- 2005 "Sakura", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 "Rubber Doll", Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 "Rubber Doll", Subterraneans, Osaka, Japan
- 2007 "Babies Exhibition", Taco-che, Tokyo, Japan
- 2010 "Time of Alice" (with Yuriko Yamayoshi), Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012 "Toy box span art gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (with hippie coco)
- 2013 "女の子戦争 (girls war) Bunkamura gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
- 2014 "ドローイング・ブック (drawing book) parabolica-bis, Asakusa, Tokyo
- 2015 "トレヴァー・ブラウン / 三浦悦子 / 記念展示 (mini-exhibition) Sanseido bookstore, Ikebukuro, Tokyo (with etsuko miura)
- 2015 "二つの聖餐 －闇から光へ－ (holy communion - from darkness to light) Bunkamura gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo (with etsuko miura)
- 2015 "Trajectory of Trevor Brown (mini-exhibition) span art gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (with etsuko miura)
- 2016 "Trevor Brown × 七菜乃 Span art gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (collaboration with nananano)
- 2017 "Editions Trevile 20th anniversary Merry art gallery, Yokohama (group show)
- 2018 "トレコス出版記念展 (Trecos publication commemoration) span art gallery, Ginza, Tokyo (with nananano & mari shimizu)
- 2019 "La Nursery Noire Gallery le deco, Shibuya, Tokyo
Album and single covers
- Crystal Castles - Alice Practice[2]
- 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
- Venetian Snares - "Filth"
- 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
- Whitehouse - Twice Is Not Enough
- Whitehouse - Halogen
- The Sadist - Last Live 1990
- Come Again II Compilation
- Coil - Hellraiser Themes
- Jarboe - Beast
- GG Allin - Watch Me Kill [3]
- Bushpig Scat Butcher - The Art of Gore [4]
- Babuchan - SHIGO-NIKKI [4]
External links
Notes and References
- News: C. B. Liddell . Trick or Treat? Is there more to the controversial art of Trevor Brown than meets the eye? . Metropolis Magazine . 2 . Tokyo . 15 October 2009 .
- Web site: 2006.
- Web site: Watch Me Kill, by GG Allin.
- Web site: 2018.
