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JADE TOWNSEND: HOMESICK / SICKHOME

Past exhibition
30 May - 20 June 2020
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Jade Townsend After Nature, 2019 Used fishing rope, aquarium decorations, postcards all found in Ibiza (Spain). Cotton thread from India. Made in Ibiza, Spain, 2019. 365mm x 300mm
Jade Townsend
After Nature, 2019
Used fishing rope, aquarium decorations, postcards all found in Ibiza (Spain). Cotton thread from India. Made in Ibiza, Spain, 2019.
365mm x 300mm
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Homesick/Sickhome features a series of new mahi constructed with fishing and tourism debris; cast out by others and then retrieved by Jade Townsend from beaches across Thailand and Spain. The artist transforms this discarded material into delicately woven and painted works. Some are almost jewel-like; others have the appearance of a mossy outcrop in the depths of the New Zealand bush; or a fragment of coral at the bottom of the ocean. It is as if through the process of making Townsend has somehow returned the inorganic to an organic state.

 

Townsend is an artist with a finely tuned sensitivity and meticulous approach to materials and processes who is endeavouring to find a new way of making work that is more sustainable - both in terms of the environment and in relation to the realities of sustaining an artistic practice.   

 

"[These works] express my relationship with navigation, the pull of the sea and the complex emotions of returning home. I look at this new series and realise I have made a collection of lures and beacons to signal a way back."

 

The exhibition will be accompanied by writing from Hana Pera Aoake and Matilda Fraser. 

 

  • Jade Townsend, Homesick/Sickhome (30 May - 20 June 2020). Download essays by Hana Pera Aoake and Matilda Fraser
  • Denizen Magazine, July 2020

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