Penny Jerrim

2010

Opus I: Elemental*
 
MIX 30x30cm
Opus II: Industrial*
 
MIX 30x30cm
Opus III: Zygote*
 
MIX 30x30cm
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About Penny Jerrim

Penny Jerrim works in Tasmania exploring the integration of recycled materials with natural fibres and pigments. She works with print techniques, assemblages and paint and is seeking to use non-toxic ways of creating artwork. Penny finds visual inspiration in both the natural landscape and the urban environment – and in the effects of time and the elements on natural and manufactured surfaces.

It is from sources found on the forest floor, coastlines and recycling depots that the artist finds fading or ageing objects that contain transitions of colour and texture to copy, or forms to use directly in her work. Inspiration is found in a sheet of iron reduced to lacework as it lies out in the field…or in the colours found in a eucalypt leaf shed onto the forest floor…a fragment of painted wood weathered by the sea – or in the rusting surface of an iron shed. These things are photographed or taken back to the studio where works are developed.

In searching for a way to honour the effects of ageing on surfaces, Penny endeavours to challenge the viewer to see beauty in the used, discarded or rejected objects that surround us.

For more on Penny Jerrim see
www.pennyjerrim.com

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