They Abide and They Endure

'They Abide and They Endure', (2006) is an installation that incorporates a set of eighteen school desks and chairs and fifty mounted white mice. The piece is named after the final words uttered by Lillian Gish in the film “The Night of the Hunter”)and in this respect this work questions the vulnerability of children, tapping in to common/shared memories of the school environment. This installation was first shown at Persistence Works in Sheffield in 2006 and has since been shown at the The Roland Levinsky Gallery,Peninsula Arts, Plymouth in 'The Animal Gaze' in 2008. “Combining film, found objects, stuffed animals and meticulously crafted sculptural features, Brown conjures a kind of modern-day memento mori that is made equally heartbreaking and heartwarming through its precarious balance of threat and vulnerability.” Robert Clark, The Guardian, Review of “They Abide & They Endure”, September 2006