Jasmine Targett reviewed by The Sydney Morning Herald

Today I found out I was reviewed twice by the Sydney Morning Herald! and I had no idea.... It is a lovely thing to be seen and heard as an artist and I am chuffed that its starting to happen at a National level. I am so grateful to those of you that have reached out and let me know your responses to the work - I have been overwhelmed and humbled. Thanks heaps guys!! Now onto the business of things... excerpts from the articles!

From  Dylan Rainforth's article on June 17, 2014 - 'Space: Around the Galleries- Fear of the future' 

"Jasmine Targett, has used NASA satellite data to represent the ozone hole – and the invisible terror of anthropogenic environmental harm – as a human-scaled, realistically iceberg-shaped sculpture. Because, like an iceberg, it’s what we can’t see that we should be afraid of."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/space-around-the-galleries-20140617-zsaii.html#ixzz35XDtl9RF

And From Dan Rule's article on June 22, 2014 - 'In the Galleries - Innovators 1'

"Britt Salt and Jasmine Targett’s sculptural installations are highlights. While Salt’s vast canopies of geometrically arranged rubber lines draw our attention to the dynamics of space and our journey through it, Targett’s mountainous sculpture – created using layers of Perspex – forms a prism of shifting, changing colour."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/in-the-galleries-20140617-zsah3.html#ixzz35XEKpNd5

New Project opening at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art

Dear Friends and colleagues,

It is my pleasure to give you a sneak peak of my latest installation project that is a part of the Innovators Program at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art and invite you to the Exhibition Opening!

Exhibition Opening: 6 – 8pm Thursday 22 May, 2014.

Linden Centre for Contemporary Art

26 Acland Street, St Kilda 3182 Victoria

Artist - Jasmine Targett
'Blind Spot', 2014

Perspex and Mirror
2.2m x 1.7m x 1.2m

My latest installation project, Blind Spot, has been a daring attempt to map out a large three dimensional hole in space. A complex and multifaceted anti-form that is as optically impossible to describe as the space inside an atom.

Blind Spot describes one of the most significant environmental discoveries of our age- the Ozone Hole. Like an iceberg looming in space, it is a dark wonder of the natural world, a landmark that cannot be found on any atlas or world map. Its appearance in our atmosphere every spring is a haunting reminder of how we close we come to pushing our environment beyond the point of regeneration.

Finding a means to visually and conceptually fathom otherwise unperceivable aspects of nature, the work aims to delineate the blind spot in perception that fails to make the connection between existence and the systems within nature that support it. Further exploring the tension between perception and visibility.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Innovators 1

EXHIBITION DATES:
Friday, 16 May 2014 - Sunday, 22 June 2014

ARTISTS:
Jessie Bullivant, littlewhitehead, curated by David Hagger, Nicholas Ives, James Bonnici and Amelie Scalercio, Britt Salt, Jasmine Targett

Linden's Innovators series of exhibitions presents new and innovative contemporary art. The artists in Innovators 1 respond to the unique spaces at Linden, through painting, sculpture, installation and intervention

See you at the opening!

Installing at Linden for Innovators 1....

This week's install was epic at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art. Blind Spot is the year long project that I have been working on that has been funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. A labor of love (or total insanity), I am thrilled to be able to share a sneak peak of the work before it opens! 

A massive thank you and explosion of cosmic love to all of the friends and family that rallied round to help bring this project into being. I physically could not have done it with out you!! Sarah Wilmot, Nadia Mercuri, Thomas Ryan, Stef Watson and Dominique Morgan - you are truly loved!