JENNY JUDGE
Canadian/New Zealand artist creating installations using craft-based processes that incorporate 3D prints, mould making, glass, ceramics, plaster, fibre, writing, film…
“To cast an object is to create a memory of an object.”
My current work focuses on memory, ageing, and time passing. I cast Glass and plaster elements from sewing paraphernalia and incorporate them onto strings that I slowly cover in paint. Sometimes colourful, sometimes white or clear, they disappear into their surroundings much like forgotten memories.
Filmed by Janalee Budge @Janaleecreative
RECENT
Solo Exhibition of drawings and sculpture
September 26-October 26, 2023.
The Society for Contemporary Works on Paper Gallery, New Leaf Editions.
#3 1244 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8 Granville Island.
Closing reception and artist talk:
October 26, 2023. 6pm
Solo Exhibition Installation.
September 28-November 23, 2023.
The Craft Council of BC Gallery, Vancouver. 1386 Cartwright Street. Granville Island V6H 3R8
Opening Reception September 28, 2023. 7:00-9:00 pm.
Author Reading: 6:30 pm Carousel Theatre, Granville Island
Essay “Transitions”
published in Sharp Notions: Essays from the Stitching Life. Editors Marita Dachsel and Nancy Lee. Arsenal Pulp Press. October 10, 2023.
Pre-order: Arsenal Pulp Press
Reading of ‘Transitions’ September 28, 2023. 6:30 pm.
Carousel Theatre. 1411 Cartwright St, Vancouver BC V6H 3R7
Granville Island
CURRENT PROJECTS
Phase Transition
“Phase Transition” is a full-room installation, a solo exhibition at The Craft Council of BC, 28th September - 23rd November 2023.
It is a reaction to watching a drip of paint harden as it works its way down a piece of string. The paint covers objects as it travels down, envelops, alters, and encapsulates them. The drips shift with each layer, change, and eventually coagulate in place, capturing time and preserving memories. Objects can trigger memories and a feeling of familiarity, and in the case of my mother’s sewing paraphernalia, that of time spent in her sewing room, domesticity, place, and home.
MY MOTHER’S BUTTONS COLLECTION
"I remember sitting on the floor organizing my mother's button collection while she sewed and I am sure she did this to keep me occupied.”
This work emphasizes both the power and fragility of memory as each collected button is sewn onto thin-walled paper-clay forms. The holes and gaps are like thoughts that have lapsed and I use gold lustre to emphasize this poetics of loss. These forms appear and disappear against the white wall, pinned delicately to float above their cast shadows while the viewer immerses themselves into the fragile tones of time passing, memory, childhood, and domesticity.
Work exhibited in the Korean International Ceramics Biennale, Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, South Korea October 1, 2021-January 15, 2022