FOCUS ON
Focus On illuminates individual artworks that are currently available from Jerico Contemporary. Focus On presents an opportunity to delve deeper into specific works through discussing their subject matter and the creative process behind them. Allowing this time for reflection enables viewers to engage with works from a different perspective and enter into new dialogues.
Matthew Graeme Johnson
There is no divide, 2019
Where do we draw the line between ourselves and nature? For some, it may be instantaneous, ruled by strict definitions and observations — after all, we are not by definition trees, nor sand, or sunshine. For others, the line may be looser, guided by feeling, an intuition and deep reverence for the elements that bind us together as one. Read more.
Jedda-Daisy Culley
Sunset, 2019
It’s hard to comprehend the number of hours it would’ve taken Jedda-Daisy Culley to complete her weaving, Sunset, 2019. The scale of it is overwhelming, stretching 2.4 metres towards the ceiling and past arm’s width at 3.4 metres long. The weaving hovers somewhere between sky and ground within Culley’s latest exhibition, Printers and Portals at Jerico Contemporary. Despite its natural subdued tones, it pulses with energy, meaning, life.
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Jamie Preisz
Dreaming of Sidney, 2019
There’s something eerily familiar about the helmet of Australia’s most notorious bushranger. It’s instantly recognisable upon viewing Dreaming of Sidney, a new painting by Australian artist Jamie Preisz, created as a part of his latest body of work, Soft Machine. Portrayed in Preisz’s signature style—a contemporary approach to modern portraiture and vanitas painting—the helmet is nestled in a bouquet of native flowers, its damaged shell grimacing in soft chrome. Read more.
Paige Northwood
Small Hanging Works, 2019
The longer you stay with Paige Northwood’s work, the more it reveals itself. Colour, texture and line are brought together in imperfect representations of land and earth. Exhibited in her new body of work, ‘Sacred Life’ on show at Jerico Contemporary, 10 small-form hanging works invoke careful inspection and contemplation. Read more.
Arch back, release, submit. Looking at Yoga (2019) by Holly Rhodes I’m reminded of the beauty that exists in solitary moments, of the quiet calm that resides in giving yourself the time to just be. Read more.
Andrew Yip
Network Series, 2019
Nothing can quite compare to the feeling of looking up at an ancient old tree. Tracing your eyes over a life that has lived hundreds of years, during which it has spread its roots, found its footing, sourced water and light, and grown as high as our necks may allow us to see. Read more.