Jennifer Jayarajah
(47 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Plymouth)
Plymouth College of Art and Design
This body of work is the culmination of experimentation with stitch, as a process, a concept and within feminist discourse. As a process stitch has been used to join together pieces of feminised (softened) glass using copper wire. As a concept it considers, mending, joining, renewal and regeneration.
Stitch remains significant in feminist discourse, even if not the artists declared intention.
The incorporation of shadows was an attempt to look beyond the object and consider its shadow: a presence that confirms an absence. False shadows have been included and real ones omitted to question our perception of who is visible.
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Work of art I would like to make
Limitations of kiln size and costs prohibited the creation of larger scale pieces for my degree show. I would love the opportunity to create enormous pieces that could be suspended outside a building. I would source a type of toughened glass that could be feminised in a kiln and stitched together with copper. From this huge sculpture I would project a false shadow, although at times its authentic shadow would be visible.
In response to the theme the world in 25 years, I have looked back 25 years to see what changes have taken place with regards to the visibility of women artists and artists of colour. The Guerrilla Girls poster – Do women have to be naked to get into the Met demonstrated in 1985 that 5% of artists in the modern art section were women, they recently revised the poster to show that it was now 3%, these statistics are reflected in Britain.
Matthew Collings recalled, in his column in Modern Painters of a time when he decided to look through a Time Out for exhibitions by women artists. He found only one by Lorraine Leeson. “Unfortunately I couldn’t bring myself to go…how did anyone get pleasure from it?” With this idea of pleasure in mind I would strive to make a piece that would not only remind us of discrimination and question who is visible in the artworld but also bring “pleasure”, precipitating a significant shift in the perception of feminist art over the next 25 years.
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My Artworks (6)
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