Jemima Wyman is a palawa woman, with paternal descendants from the pairrebeener people of tebrakunna, and poredareme. She has maternal descendants from England. Wyman’s practice focuses on patterns and masking to investigate visual resistance: specifically camouflage as a formal, social, and political strategy in negotiating identity.
Jemima Wyman Plume 20, 2022
Installation view, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane. Photography by Ed Mumford.
hand cut digital photographs
132 × 96 cm
138 × 102.5 cm (framed)
hand cut digital photographs
103 × 115 cm
110 x 121 cm (framed)
hand cut digital photos
142 × 106.5 cm
hand cut digital photos
114 × 94 cm
hand cut digital photographs
124 × 186.5 cm (framed)
Jemima Wyman Haze 1, 2021, custom-printed chiffon, thread, metal rod, 350 x 480 cm, installation dimensions variable
Installation view Octopus 21: On Fire, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne.
hand-cut photos on paper
155 × 125 cm (framed)
Digital photo collage
190 cm diameter
202 × 202 cm (framed)
Collage
81 × 113 cm
Jemima Wyman World Cloud, 2023
Installation view, Sullivan+Strumpf, Naarm/Melbourne. Photography by Alberto Zimmermann.
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Wyman is a palawa woman, with paternal descendants from the pairrebeener people of tebrakunna, and poredareme. She has maternal descendants from England. Wyman’s practice focuses on patterns and masking to investigate visual resistance: specifically camouflage as a formal, social, and political strategy in negotiating identity.
Through her hand-cut photograph collages, she preserves universal acts of protest and confrontation, exploring themes of upheaval, uncertainty, and distress. These events are extensively documented by Wyman’s artwork titles that caption collective histories of global demonstration.
Wyman has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne (2023) and Sydney (2021, 2019 & 2017); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018 & 2015) and Milani Gallery, Brisbane (2015). The artist has participated in group exhibitions at Melbourne Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf (2022); IMA, Brisbane (2021); Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (2020); TRANSFER, New York (2019), HeK, Basel, (2019), Chronus Art Center, Shanghai (2019); La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (2019); ZKM, Germany (2018) and Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand (2018). Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Frieze, Eyeline, Art Monthly Australasia and Artlink.
Wyman’s work is held in several significant collections, including the Whitney Museum (USA), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Artbank (Australia), and 21st Century Museum of Art (Japan).
Photography by James Naish
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