Photography — Jeremiah Brown

I consent for you too

A photography and text installation at Stanley Arts.

archive is remembering
and i consent to being remembered
i consent for you too

Hailing from Croydon, Brown questions how a community occupies a space. Drawing attention to issues of gentrification and redevelopments, ‘I consent for you too’, is the artist’s promise to his hometown – to never forget it. The exhibition speaks to the vital need for active archiving, of harnessing the spaces in between light and darkness, exploring how we are impacted by the constant changing of our surroundings.

Jeremiah says: “Archiving is active remembering. Undertaking this project I realised how much I have not been archiving Croydon. In one of the community workshops, a participant spoke about how they worked in Grants, ‘back when it used to be a department store’. It made me think how much of the Croydon I grew up with is different now or gone completely. This exhibition examines what it looks like to begin remembering later, whilst also actively remembering Croydon now. I consent to being remembered in my own life, to Croydon I say ‘I consent for you too.’”

‘I consent for you too’ is Jeremiah Brown’s first solo exhibition.

I consent for you too was presented at Stanley Arts Centre, 12 South Norwood Hill, Croydon from 18 November - 14 December 2023.

you know you love a place
if you’re willing to defend it

the years i’ve spent backing this borough
everyone better call me romeo or cupid

if you’re not from here close your throat
if you’ve never lived here don’t say nothing

this place is ours to love ours to loathe
it’s a broken bankrupt thing
with too many flowers piled by railings

and yet it cares for us
it’s home to us
we love it
we hope for better always

—an excerpt from ‘DON’T EXPECT AN ODE FROM ME’ a poem within the exhibition

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Headshots

A selection of Jeremiah's professional headshot photography. Jeremiah Brown creates striking headshots in outdoor environments utilising natural light.

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