ENVIRON
$2,400
Plant fibres are the raw materials for paper makers; the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen that make up cellulose are also the most common elements in the human body; therefore, as a papermaker empathy for the environment is in my blood!
The reciprocal relationships of all living and non-living things are an elaborate and all-encompassing mesh of networks.
All things are made of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting and repelling one another. All matter is granular and this granular view of the world creates a sense of the profound unity of things. We are all made of the same substance as are the stars, and the sea.
As a papermaker I am immersed in the materiality of my media in a deeply physical and analytical way, combining science and art, chemistry and ecology; the alchemical nature of paper making where natural matter is transmuted to becomes both the substrate and content. My paper is not a neutral support.
Handmade paper, pulp painting, dry points and stitching
75 x 60cm
Artist Statement: Darwin based artist Winsome Jobling works primarily with handmade paper and experimental printmaking as well as drawing and sculpture. Winsome has been making and teaching paper making since the 1980’s.
She uses many local plants to make her paper such as Spear Grass, Banyan Fig and the declared weed Gamba Grass and is constantly experimenting with new fibres and techniques. Her work is a haptic collaboration with the natural world and a response to our impact on it. Recent works explore the impacts of bushfires and climate change on the Top End Savannah and the fundamental connections between all things.
She has exhibited regularly in Darwin and in 2016 the Museum & Art Gallery of the NT held the survey show Winsome Jobling; the Nature of Paper. Recent exhibitions nationally include Sketches in Paper at Australian Galleries Melbourne and enmesh at Timeless Textiles in Newcastle.
Winsome was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study papermaking in the USA in 2008 and maintains links with International practitioners through conferences, residencies and exhibitions. The most recent Residency was in 2019 at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
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