Archive for June, 2023

Capturing Traces Left Behind 1994 – 2023

Friday, June 30th, 2023




Cape Schanck Victoria 1 – 1994
Tracing the marks left behind along the coastline

Landwrap Series 2023.





Cape Schanck Victoria 2 – 1994
Tracing the marks left behind along the coastline

Capturing the imperfections and traces left behind in the environment in 1994. 29 years later and still exploring the moments of change, rust and decay, as well as, the renewal and growth, in the transformation of the environment.







Chequered Flight – 2017
The creation of order out of chaos and the eventual return to randomness along the seine river in France.






Rustmatter 16 – 2018
Marks found traveling on the Metro train system, Paris France
Earth & Bio Dyeing

I want to engage viewers in a conversation about the relationship between our environment, our history, and the importance of embracing the beauty and raw power of the natural environment.






Wallmatter 8 – 2016
Connections and contrasts of imperfections, found in the urban environment, highlighting, insignificant marks and weathered surfaces 





Rustmatter 14 – 2016
A visual and textural descent into the abandoned, the derelict, the vacant and the forgotten.
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Wallmatter 16 – 2016
Connections and contrasts of imperfections, found in the urban environment, highlighting, insignificant marks and weathered surfaces 

I work primarily with abstract painting and often focus on layering paint and mixed media materials, creating incomplete impressions – random, yet imperfect. My process involves building up and breaking down surfaces, playing with decay and renew. In my textile and found object pieces I bring in texture and rust to give depth.






Landwrap 3 – 2023 The artworks link to the primal aerial view over Australia. 
Land Wrap is my relationship with the earth. A subconscious rendering of the desolate wilderness, granite landscapes, deserts, forests, waterholes and walking tracks of Australia. Being a primal source of the earth , once one is cloaked in “Land Wrap” it gives protection and wisdom for our future survival.

At the core of my work remains the act of intuitive and experimental marks, smudges and scratches that reference my relationship with the environment and moments in History. I hope my works will ignite the imagination and evoke an honest and curious connection to the environment. Jenny Davis 2023


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Landwrap – Public Art Project

Sunday, June 4th, 2023

Land Wrap by Jenny Davis

Coming soon…Rydges CBD Hotel Melbourne. July 2023

Early last year in 2022, I was commissioned by Janet Graham Interiors Sydney, to create a series of large scale artworks for the lobby and penthouse of the Rydges CBD Hotel in Melbourne.

My artworks are now finished and shortly, I will send out information where you can view my artworks and other artists on permanent display in the hotel. The hotel reopens in late July 2023.

There will be artwork in the public areas, guestrooms and corridors that celebrates the best of local artists. Interior designer Janet Graham spent many months researching and engaging with the local Victorian art community to compile a list of artists’ works on mixed mediums to enhance the guest’s local experience.

You can also view my whole creative process here

About Landwrap Series & Arts Practice

My practice fuses together the aspects of both the traditional and the contemporary ideas to explore themes of history, environment, and women’s history through abstract painting, mark making, intuitive hand stitching, and found objects to create a unique visual vocabulary

Through my use of mixed media, I use spontaneous mark making techniques, created intuitively and randomly, exploring the imperfections and incompleteness of space and unseen marks to convey my ideas. In my latest works I celebrate the beauty of the rust, random stitching, and the ever-evolving act of recycling, re-discovering and re-purposing in our current cultural context.

Each Landwrap piece is full of history with antique textiles, rust, sepia inks and found objects… rusty fence droppers from outback Australia, 200yr old textiles, metal detector finds from goldfields, in Victoria, 1800’s suspender buckles and 17th century smoking pipe fragments dug up from the Thames in London & more.

Landwrap Statement

The artworks link to the primal aerial view over Australia. Land Wrap is my relationship with the earth. A subconscious rendering of the desolate wilderness, granite landscapes, deserts, forests, waterholes and walking tracks of Australia. Being a primal source of the earth , once one is cloaked in “Land Wrap” it gives protection and wisdom for our future survival.

About Antique Textiles

The antique textiles I work with in the “Land Wrap” series are centuries old and sometimes, they seem to yell at me, but mostly, they lay silent. I think of the conversations had as I make my own marks alongside, others gone before. Ragged bits, old and new stitching, tracing marks left behind on old textiles are a reminder, of a time when women, had many obligations and few choices. I feel comfortable, as I stitch, tear, dye and reinforce the fragmented pieces. Somehow, I hope, in a small way, by reclaiming and reworking the textiles, I can give a voice to those women. Jenny Davis 2023

Sizes

2 – 2800 x 100cm

1 – 210 x 100cm

Desolate wilderness, granite landscapes, deserts, forests, waterholes walking tracks, Australia @outlook8studio

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