Trevor Turbo Brown Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1967 - d. 2017

Trevor Turbo Brown paints the niave world of birds and animals, painting with great energy and freshness. Turbo had a severely difficult upbringing around Mildura. He suffered from an intellectual disability and endured abandonment, homelessness and substance abuse. As a teeneager he was finally adopted, later moved to Melbourne, became interested in rap music and dance, and then was introduced to painting.

His path from oppressive difficulties to a possible life of involvement in art has given Turbo Brown a positive lift. Turbo Brown has successfully held his first solo exhibition in 2005, and regularly been a finalist in the prestigious Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards in Darwin. Other honours for Turbo Brown include being represented in the 2006 Landmarks exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and the 2007 Culture Warriors inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial.

Now in his late 40s, Turbo Brown paints the images that sustain him – the birds and animals in the natural world. The immediacy and vibrancy of his painted universe is immediately apparent. Aboriginal art status – Mid career artist.