JENNY JUDGE
“Memory of an Object” 2024. Kiln-cast glass, CNC cut 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.
My sculpture deals with the themes of transition, memory, and loss. In my current drawing series, I address the notion of transition through layered, crafted, and methodical linework.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Phase Transition
“Phase Transition” is a full-room installation that began in 2023 and is now being reworked into different configurations.
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.
“Reused Cookie-tin”, 2025. Ceramics, found-object (tin)
Button Boxes
This series of work explores the notion of saved button collections and their reused tins as reminders of the act of saving, reusing, repurposing and of mending.
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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