‘Gravity Revisited’
By
JENNY REDDIN
Show Dates 20 January- 20 February, 2022
Opening by Guest Speaker Ewen Jarvis: 20 January, 5-8pm
GALLERY NOTES
Jenny Reddin hails from the wine region of the Yarra Valley where she shares her home, studio and land with her family, three horses and two dogs.
Defining herself as a contemporary poured paint artist, Jenny produces abstract works that rely heavily on chance, accident and the surrender of control. Whilst her work is the result of experimentation with materials, methods and process, she has perfected the chemistry involved in achieving an outcome that satisfies her search for “a beautiful surface.”
Jenny’s works allow the viewer to draw their own interpretation, to create their own relationship with the work. She achieves a delicate transience in the work that suggests fragility of life. They are often reminiscent of aerial landscapes and of nature magnified to reveal structure and life force that glows as if lit from within. They bear witness to the dance that she performs to deliver the pigment to the support as they shift across the carefully prepared surface to stain it or to settle in mirror perfect pools of colour.
More recently, Jenny has been sculpting in metal to reflect her interest in human and animal form where she seeks to express personality, relationships and interests using silhouette, colour and pattern as her means of communication.
Jenny has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University and exhibits regularly in Australia. Additionally, she has successfully exhibited and is held in collections both in the USA Japan and Hong Kong.