VIEWING ROOM

SKYE JAMIESON
‘I DREAMT ABOUT BEING HERE THREE MONTHS LATER’

Jerico Contemporary is delighted to present our first solo exhibition with Australian artist Skye Jamieson, I Dreamt About Being Here Three Months Later. The exhibition is now open and will continue Thursday 10th of June and continue through to Saturday 10th July 2021.


Through her slow and intuitive approach to pure abstract painting, Jamieson negotiates the nuances of her urban surroundings and emotional responses to it. I Dreamt About Being Here Three Months Later brings together a collection of works in a psychogeographic exploration of the artist's movements through cityscapes, where she documents drifting through environments with acute awareness.

Evocative of the paths less wandered, Jamieson's paintings draw parallels with the 1960s Situationist art movement that urged a dissolution of the boundaries between life and art. Based on authentic lived experiences, the artist translates the intimacy of solitary moments through studies of gesture and feeling that elicit a quiet yet pervasive intensity. Ruminating on tender interactions with nature, whether it be bathing in the shadows of a towering tree, collecting rubbish from the earth's surface or immersing her feet in a flowing torrent of water, Jamieson clears space for a series of serendipitous energetic relationships to transpire between her and the world around her.

Eschewing preconceived ideas or expectations, the artists’ paintings are guided by her surrendering to intention and intuition through a creative process that allows for each work to inform the other. Fluid forms mark the canvas at varying pressures, providing subtle changes in expression and depth. Pigment gathers and falls away on the surface, like water traversing bitumen before pooling at the edge of a cement gutter stream and returning to the mother source.

I Dreamt About Being Here Three Months Later cultivates sensitivity and awareness that stems from a respect and kindness between artist and artwork; between inner and outer landscapes. Serene yet spirited, Jamieson has permitted this body of work to simply be.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Skye Jamieson was born in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia in 1993. Her selected solo exhibitions include ‘Blue straw on a path to Dickson’, Tributary Projects (2018) and ‘Hold a Mentos Wrapper’, CCAS Manuka, (2018). Her selected group exhibitions include ‘Double Standard’, M16 Artspace, Canberra (2021), ‘Falling Over Itself’, BSA Gallery, Mullumbimby (2020), ‘Fire Fight Fundraiser’, Nishi Gallery, Canberra (2020), ‘Fire Relief (Fun)draiser’, Tributary Projects, Canberra (2020), ‘SPRING 1883 Art Fair’, Tributary Projects (2019), BLAZE THIRTEEN, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT (2019), Project Space, TWFAx2, Brisbane (2018).