Jemima Wyman

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Jemima Wyman (born 1977) is an Australian contemporary artist best known for her photo collage work. She has also worked with performance and video art.

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Early life

Wyman was born in Mackay and grew up in Queensland. [1] [2] After earning a bachelor's degree from Queensland University of Technology, Wyman attended California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a master's degree in fine arts in 2007. [2] [3]

Career

Wyman first began doing performance art in the 1990s, with pieces inspired by feminist themes. [2]

In 2004, Wyman came to Los Angeles, California after being awarded a studio residency by the Australian Government. [4] Wyman has continued to work in Los Angeles, and is a lecturer in the art department of the University of California, Los Angeles. [4] In Los Angeles, she is represented by the Koreatown-based Commonwealth and Council. [4] [5]

Style

Wyman is interested in protest and its relationship to art, particularly the idea of visual resistance, [2] [5] [6] such as the use of patterns by "outside groups", and Guy Fawkes masks. [7]

Wyman's collage pieces draw on photos taken at protests from across the world, drawing from inspiration such as the Arab Spring, [8] the Occupy movement, Russia's Pussy Riot, and Mexico's Zapatista Army of National Liberation. [6] She has around 15,000 photos in her archives, which she has been collecting since 2008. [6] [9]

Works

"Plume 20..." (2020) is a 15 ft x 17ft collage, which is made of photographs of smoke; she began collecting materials for the piece in 2018. [4] The piece's full title is 24 pages long. [4] It was included in "Air", an exhibition at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in 2022. [10]

Exhibitions

In 2014, Wyman designed Pattern Bandits, an exhibition at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art targeted towards children. [1]

In March 2017, Wyman had her first solo exhibition at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney. [7] She exhibited at the same gallery again in 2021, with "Fume", [11] and in 2023, with "World Cloud". [12] All of her exhibitions featured her photo collage pieces. [7] [11] [12]

Later in 2017, Wyman's work was included as part of The National 2017 at Carriageworks in Sydney. [6]

In 2019, a collaborative video piece between Wyman and Zach Blas, im here to learn so :)))))) (2017), was exhibited at Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, Switzerland. [13]

In early 2022, Wyman’s exhibition A Haze Descends was presented at Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. [9]

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  10. ↑ Higgins, Jo (2022-11-28). "These artists draw attention to the 'invisible resource' of air — and how it shapes our lives". ABC News. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
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