JANET PARKER-SMITH Questionable Intentions 17 February to 14 March 2015
JANET PARKER-SMITH Questionable Intentions 17 February to 14 March 2015
My recent work extends my fascination with humans and nature and their boundless capacity for re-invention and rejuvenation. Using the transmutation of humans and animals, morphology and the desolation of our environment the work explores the human collective chaotic and purposeless existence on the universe. While the works appear absurd in their construction they engage with representation, evolution and metamorphosis. They show animals and humans that could be described as halfway between life and death. They are detached souls – not harmonious in character. They are stuck somewhere between the artificial and the uncultivated, and the wonderful and the outrageous.
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Aberrant One’ 2015, archival digital print from collage, edition of 5, 103 x 82cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Aberrant One’ 2015, collage in perspex box, 37.5 x 27.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Monkey on my Back’ 2015, collage in perspex box, 25.5 x 19.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Toxic’ 2015, archival digital print from collage, edition of 5, 103 x 82cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘With Eyes Half Open’ 2015, collage in perspex box, 25.5 x 19.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Wanton Women’ 2015, archival digital print from collage, edition of 5, 103 x 82cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Wanton Women’ 2015, collage in perspex box, 37.5 x 27.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘She Warrior’ 2014, collage in perspex box, 25.5 x 20.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Transitionally Lost’ 2014, archival digital print from collage, edition of 7, 103 x 82cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Ordinary, Extraordinary’ 2015, collage in perspex box, 25.5 x 20.5cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘A Marvellous Future’ 2014-15, screen print on felt with applique, 110 x 80cm
Janet Parker-Smith, ‘Ordinary, Extraordinary’ 2015, archival digital print from collage, edition of 5, 103 x 82cm
JANET PARKER-SMITH SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Questionable Intentions, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. 2013 Little Wonders, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. 2011 Still Alive & Still Well, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. 2010 Prints, collages & sculptures, Horus & Deloris Gallery, Syd 2005 Journeys, Prints and collages at Global Galleries, Syd. 2003 Prints & Collages, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney. 2000 Prints & Collages, PCL Exhibitionists, Sydney. 1998 Facades, prints, Sweet Foray Gallery, Katoomba, Sydney. 1997 Subversion, Nelson St Gallery, Annandale, Sydney. 1995 Printmedia, Two Walls West, Uni of Western Sydney. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Christmas Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Hidden, Sculpture Exhibition Rookwood Cemetery. Crossing Boundaries, Taylor Jenson Fine Arts, Pamerston North, New Zealand (Finalist) Fremantle Print Award. Elephant in the Room, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Corporeal, Switchback Gallery, Centre for Art & Design, Gippsland. New and Old Territories, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery. Crossing Boundaries, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney. 2013 Christmas Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Animalised, See Street Gallery, Northern Sydney Institute. Mighty Small, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Crossing Boundaries, Northart Gallery, Auckland, NZ. Paper Works II. Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Corporeal, Geelong Regional Gallery, Vic 2012 Lines of Communication, Barometer gallery, Paddington, (Finalist) Woollahra Small Sculpture. In The Mirror, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. (Finalist) Fremantle Print Award. Hello Dollies, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW. Familiar Unfamiliar, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah 2011 Freak of Nature, Monash University, Victoria Familiar Unfamiliar, C3 Contemporary Art space, Melbourne (Finalist) Fremantle Print Award. Hot off the Press, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly. Art + Humour Me, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. (Finalist) Geelong Print Award. 2010 Green, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Paper Works, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Diversity, Depot Gallery, Danks street, Sydney.
B R E N D A M AY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont’d) 2009 Print Council of Australia, various galleries throughout Aus. From Print to Print, Hardware Gallery, Newtown. Animal Farm, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. 2008 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre. Printmedia, Atelier Skara, Gressvik, Norway. Sydney Printmakers, Taylors Gallery, Summer Hill, Sydney. 2007 (Finalist) Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre. Urban Animal, Marianne Newman, Crows Nest, Sydney. Urban Animal, Impressions on Paper, Canberra. Partners in Print – Printmedia, Fire Station, Melbourne. Pulse, Ground Floor Gallery, Balmain, Sydney. Portfolio 20, Exchange Exhibition, Exit Gallery SCA. 2006 Sydney Printmakers 45th Anniversary, Taylors Gallery, Syd. (Finalist) Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield. 2005 Art Sydney 2005, Hordon Pavilion, Sydney. Us, Staff exhibition, Werrington Institute of TAFE, Sydney. (Finalist) Willoughby Print Award. Love Lives 2, Global Galleries, Paddington. 2004 Love Lives, Global Galleries, Paddington. 2003 Collages at Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Print Award, Hazelhurst, Sydney. 2002 Prints and Collages, Drive In Gallery, Penrith Regional Gallery. 2000 Show Us the Proof, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney. 1994 Look at Her, Gallery on Booth, Annandale. Exhibition of Prints by the Contemporary Printmakers Assoc., Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington. Master of Art Graduation Exhibition, CoFA, UNSW. Taylormade-Works on Paper, Gallery on Booth, Annandale. Gash, Arthaus, Taylor Square, Sydney - Multimedia for PostGraduate Women’s Studies. Mary Alice Evatt Art Award Selection Exhibition, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. 1993 East-West, Bridge Gallery, Perth, and Artery UWS. COLLECTIONS Print Council of Australia, Arjo Wiggins/Canson Australia PTY LTD, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Genazzano Gollege Kew VIC, State Library of Victoria, City of Whitehorse VIC, The Art Vault Mildura, New Expressions Gallery Canberra, Shelford Girls Grammar Caufield VIC, Tintern Schools Ringwood VIC, St Ursula’s College Toowoomba, Monash University Churchill VIC, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Channel 9 Studios; Global Gallery, Paddington; University of Western Sydney; Evatt Foundation, Sydney. Private Collections.
G A L L E R Y
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