Exhibition runs: 29 April – 10 May 2025
Artist Statement:
I can see the appeal in making a singular coherent statement, however it seems that this exhibition is broader in its exploration. The impetus behind this exhibition developed as a response to the imposition of the digital world. Ubiquitous algorithms blend the individual away. I am captive to nostalgic aesthetic notions where objects and images identify idiosyncratic characteristics of the maker.
Carving as an analogue process allows for gradation, movement and subtle variations where marks and imperfections are visible rather than erased. The outer and the inner workings of the body are shown through simple gestures, clear lines and a sense of organic ebb and flow. Through this series I have been interested in the analogous continuum between physical form and inner experience. The composition plays with proportionality, both consciously and unconsciously. Some of the works have been truncated, others have been elongated. Vessels and chambers travel through, under and around each other.
In order to leave a mark on this world, I am conveying the workings of my imagination. Inevitably both attributes and limitations are exposed. The battle between the two is where the work is made. Often there is a contest between freedom of imagination and paralysing fear. Some of the poses play with notions of surrender, contortion, distortion, inversion and burying your gaze. These are expressed in both awkward and graceful manner.
Turning the world upside down is an attempt to disrupt the dominant digital paradigm.
‘Upright’, Jamieson Miller, 2023, stained cypress pine- 90x18x15cm.
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