Australian multidisciplinary artist James Brown’s much-anticipated Sydney debut, PROMISES LAND, invites audiences into a vivid, volatile world where abstraction collides with figuration, and the sacred dances with the absurd. Known internationally for his immersive works that blur the boundaries between art, design, and architecture, Brown brings his multidisciplinary lens to a maximalist vision rendered on a minimalist palette.

In this new body of work, Brown explores the emotional terrain between memory and myth, existential dread and fragile hope. PROMISES LAND asks: What were you promised? What did you carry? Where did you land? These poetic provocations unfurl across canvases loaded with sand, pigment, and feeling - each piece a shrine to the chaotic beauty of being alive.

Prom Queen Smile
Prom Queen Smile
Prom Queen Smile

$2,200

No Habla Profunda
No Habla Profunda
No Habla Profunda

$1,900

No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli
No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli
No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli

$1,600

T . P . I . A . G . A
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T . P . I . A . G . A

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So Perfect & Ruined
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So Perfect & Ruined

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Drinky Poo Duplex
Drinky Poo Duplex

$700

Showing Promise
Showing Promise

$650

I Thought You Were My Friend
I Thought You Were My Friend

$600

D . W . I . O . A . D
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D . W . I . O . A . D
D . W . I . O . A . D

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No Habla Flora
No Habla Flora
No Habla Flora

$1,900

Refrain From Petting
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Refrain From Petting

Sold

Nobody's Home
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Nobody's Home
Nobody's Home

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Faith & Fact
Faith & Fact

$950

I Guess I Was Wrong
I Guess I Was Wrong

$650

Drinky Poo Simplex
Drinky Poo Simplex

$650

Prom Queen Smile
Prom Queen Smile
Prom Queen Smile

$2,200

D . W . I . O . A . D
Sold
D . W . I . O . A . D
D . W . I . O . A . D

Sold

No Habla Profunda
No Habla Profunda
No Habla Profunda

$1,900

No Habla Flora
No Habla Flora
No Habla Flora

$1,900

No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli
No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli
No Body But Me | Made In Collaboration With Emmaline Zanelli

$1,600

Refrain From Petting
Sold
Refrain From Petting

Sold

T . P . I . A . G . A
Sold
T . P . I . A . G . A

Sold

Nobody's Home
Sold
Nobody's Home
Nobody's Home

Sold

So Perfect & Ruined
Sold
So Perfect & Ruined

Sold

Faith & Fact
Faith & Fact

$950

Drinky Poo Duplex
Drinky Poo Duplex

$700

I Guess I Was Wrong
I Guess I Was Wrong

$650

Showing Promise
Showing Promise

$650

Drinky Poo Simplex
Drinky Poo Simplex

$650

I Thought You Were My Friend
I Thought You Were My Friend

$600

“I’m interested in the quiet madness of it all - the promises we make to ourselves and each other, the absurdity of meaning, and the flashes of beauty that keep us tethered to hope.”


- James Brown

James Brown

Drawing from spiritual symbology, mythological reinvention, post-colonial critique, and pop-cultural sabotage, Brown constructs a rebellious new visual language. His materials are charged: graffiti-poetry, sacred vessels, neon gods, and still-life florals jostle for space, emerging from the wreckage of a world in crisis with humour, reverence, and riotous colour.

Brown’s creative practice is fuelled by endless curiosity and restless questioning. He asks if originality is still possible in a cultural desert, whether AI can replace the artist, and whether nostalgia is a refuge or a trap. Amid the ruins, beauty endures.

As seen in major international venues like Palais de Tokyo and SFMOMA, and in atmospheric collaborations with Africola, Mexicola Bali, and Mandala Club Singapore, Brown’s work transcends genre and geography. In PROMISES LAND, he draws us into a hallucinatory state - a promised land that was never a destination, but a feeling.

The past is a grotesque animal.

The future is loud, luminous, and textured.

James Brown

Drawing from spiritual symbology, mythological reinvention, post-colonial critique, and pop-cultural sabotage, Brown constructs a rebellious new visual language. His materials are charged: graffiti-poetry, sacred vessels, neon gods, and still-life florals jostle for space, emerging from the wreckage of a world in crisis with humour, reverence, and riotous colour.

Brown’s creative practice is fuelled by endless curiosity and restless questioning. He asks if originality is still possible in a cultural desert, whether AI can replace the artist, and whether nostalgia is a refuge or a trap. Amid the ruins, beauty endures.

As seen in major international venues like Palais de Tokyo and SFMOMA, and in atmospheric collaborations with Africola, Mexicola Bali, and Mandala Club Singapore, Brown’s work transcends genre and geography. In PROMISES LAND, he draws us into a hallucinatory state - a promised land that was never a destination, but a feeling.

The past is a grotesque animal.

The future is loud, luminous, and textured.

Promises Land