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Jennifer Mathews is an artist working primarily with sculpture and installation. Mathews’ practice weighs up the semiotic strength of various forms, whether architectural or purely symbolic, testing their capacity to contain different material histories or deliver shifting forms of meaning. Recent projects consider human dominion over the non-human and the architectural impulse to measure and contain. She engages these themes while focusing 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 environments that inform her work.
Jennifer Mathews (b. 1994, South Australia) earned First Class Honours in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia in 2015. In 2023, she was awarded a 12-month studio residency at ACE, Adelaide. Mathews’ work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Laila, Sydney; ACE, Adelaide; Al Fresco, Canberra; Disneyland Paris, Melbourne; Haydens Gallery, Melbourne. Her work is included in private collections around Australia. Mathews lives and works in South Australia, where she currently co-directs and is a resident at fab, a metal fabrication workshop and artist studios.
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Jennifer Mathews is an artist working primarily with sculpture and installation. Mathews’ practice weighs up the semiotic strength of various forms, whether architectural or purely symbolic, testing their capacity to contain different material histories or deliver shifting forms of meaning. Recent projects consider human dominion over the non-human and the architectural impulse to measure and contain. She engages these themes while focusing 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 environments that inform her work.
Jennifer Mathews (b. 1994, South Australia) earned First Class Honours in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia in 2015. In 2023, she was awarded a 12-month studio residency at ACE, Adelaide. Mathews’ work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Laila, Sydney; ACE, Adelaide; Al Fresco, Canberra; Disneyland Paris, Melbourne; Haydens Gallery, Melbourne. Her work is included in private collections around Australia. Mathews lives and works in South Australia, where she currently co-directs and is a resident at fab, a metal fabrication workshop and artist studios.