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Jennifer Mathews is a sculpture and installation artist based in South Australia. Her recent projects explore human dominion over the non-human, the architectural impulse to measure and contain, and the impact of technological advances on our relationships with the organic world. Mathews examines space through a sociopolitical lens, considering how built environments, shaped by forces of productivity and power, affect bodies used for work in commercial and agricultural contexts. She engages these themes with a focus on the absurdity and alienation inherent in space, drawing upon language and found imagery. Working with materials such as metal, resin, and light, Mathews combines traditional and industrial processes, such as welding, casting, and moulding, to reflect, obscure, and poeticise the built environments that inform her practice.
Mathews holds First Class Honours in Fine Art (2016) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2015) from the University of South Australia, where she received the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. In 2023, she was awarded a 12-month studio residency at ACE, Adelaide. Recent exhibitions include UNIT, Laila, Sydney (2024); Studios: 2023, ACE, Adelaide (2023); Coercion Cradle, Al Fresco, Canberra (2023); Staple, Laila, Sydney (2023); and The Sun Ceases to Give Without Receiving, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne (2022).
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Jennifer Mathews is a sculpture and installation artist based in South Australia. Her recent projects explore human dominion over the non-human, the architectural impulse to measure and contain, and the impact of technological advances on our relationships with the organic world. Mathews examines space through a sociopolitical lens, considering how built environments, shaped by forces of productivity and power, affect bodies used for work in commercial and agricultural contexts. She engages these themes with a focus on the absurdity and alienation inherent in space, drawing upon language and found imagery. Working with materials such as metal, resin, and light, Mathews combines traditional and industrial processes, such as welding, casting, and moulding, to reflect, obscure, and poeticise the built environments that inform her practice.
Mathews holds First Class Honours in Fine Art (2016) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2015) from the University of South Australia, where she received the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. In 2023, she was awarded a 12-month studio residency at ACE, Adelaide. Recent exhibitions include UNIT, Laila, Sydney (2024); Studios: 2023, ACE, Adelaide (2023); Coercion Cradle, Al Fresco, Canberra (2023); Staple, Laila, Sydney (2023); and The Sun Ceases to Give Without Receiving, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne (2022).