JENNY JUDGE
“Memory of an Object” 2024 (Glass, CNC milled aluminum)
Jenny is a Canadian/New Zealand artist who creates installations and objects using craft-based processes, including 3D prints, mold making, glass, ceramics, plaster, fiber, writing, and film
“to cast an object is to create a memory of an object”
Her drawing practice runs alongside her sculptural one.
“I recently exhibited the installation ‘Phase Transition,’ at The Craft Council of BC that dealt with transition, memory, and loss. In my current drawing series, I address the notion of transition through layered, crafted, methodical linework and colour .”
CURRENT PROJECTS
Phase Transition
“Phase Transition” is a full-room installation, a solo exhibition initially shown at The Craft Council of BC in the Fall of 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 BUTTON 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
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