Trevor Brown (born 1959) is an English artist from London but based in Japan. His "occasionally shocking" work explores issues of

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Life and work

Brown has been living and working in Japan since 1994. His work explores

s, such as

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, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence, misogyny, and

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all collide in Brown's art. Early features on Trevor Brown's art appeared in

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's '' Apocalypse Culture II'',

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's ''Funeral Party 2'', and in Jim Goad's ''

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'' 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

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''. 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)

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'' *

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- ''

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'' *

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- ''Syojo Ha Nido Shinu (Girls Only Live Twice)'' *

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'' * Venetian Snares - ''

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'' * Venetian Snares - ''

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'' * Venetian Snares - '' Doll Doll Doll'' * Venetian Snares - "

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" * ''Eyelicker'' Compilation * Noise/Girl - ''Darkroom'' * Noise/Girl - ''Discopathology'' * Despair - ''Beautiful Japanese Sight'' *

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- ''The Gift'' * Hoppy Kamiyama - ''ESP'' * Dead Pop Stars - ''DPS'' * ''Extreme Music From Africa'' Compilation *

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- ''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'' *

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- ''Beast'' *

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- ''Watch Me Kill'' * Bushpig Scat Butcher - ''The Art of Gore'' * Babuchan - ''SHIGO-NIKKI''

References

External links

Baby Art - Official Trevor Brown Site
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