The work of Sam Jinks draws on our shared fascination with the human figure, a fascination that has long pervaded the history of Western sculpture. Constructed from silicone, fibreglass, resin and often using human hair, the viewer becomes suspended in an intense moment of intimacy with the work, a moment that cannot ordinarily be achieved amongst strangers. As we stare at the figures frozen in states of vulnerability—be it babyhood, old age or quiet contemplation—we glimpse our own vulnerabilities reflected back.
Selected Works
Overview
silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
30 × 28 × 72 cm
Edition of 5 + 2APs
silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
36 × 36 × 18 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 Artist Proofs
silicone, pigment, resin, and human hair
129 × 33 × 33 cm (artwork)
170 × 60 × 60 cm (including base)
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
silicone and resin
88 × 45 × 22 cm
Edition of 3 and 2 Artist Proofs
silicone fabric and human hair
120 × 106 × 60 cm
silicone, ground pigment, hair
31 × 47 × 73 cm (including base)
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
polyester resin, silicone, hair and 24 karat gold
65 × 85 × 49 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
silicone, pigment, resin, human hair
90 × 40 × 25 cm
silicone, pigment, resin, hair
64 × 62 × 23cm
Edition of 3 and 2 APs
Exhibitions
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About
Sam Jinks
Biography
The work of Sam Jinks draws on our shared fascination with the human figure, a fascination that has long pervaded the history of Western sculpture. Constructed from silicone, fibreglass, resin and often using human hair, the viewer becomes suspended in an intense moment of intimacy with the work, a moment that cannot ordinarily be achieved amongst strangers. As we stare at the figures frozen in states of vulnerability – be it babyhood, old age or quiet contemplation – we glimpse our own vulnerabilities reflected back.
Jinks' work can be found in various public collections including the La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne, Victoria; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Collection, Melbourne; McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria; Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria; the Koc Family Collection, Istanbul, Turkey; the Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Dehli, India and the Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporaenea (MEFIC), Portugal. Jinks has exhibited in a number of significant national and international exhibitions and events, including ‘Hypersensible’, Musée d’Arts de Nantes (2023); ‘Reshaped Reality: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture’, Musée Maillol, Paris; La Sucriere, Lyon (2022); Institut für Kulturaustausch, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain; Museum Beelden aan Zee, Netherlands; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthally Tübingen, Germany; Heydar Aliyev, Baku, Azerbaijan (2016-2024); Art Stage Jakarta (2016); ART021 Shanghai (2015); Art Basel Hong Kong (2015); True to Life, Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany (2015); All (Is) Vanity, Seoul Museum, Korea (2015); 21st Century Hyperrealism - Breathing, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea (2015); Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence—a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Art Stage Singapore (2013); Animal/Human, the University of Queensland Art Museum (2012); and the survey exhibition Sam Jinks: Body in Time, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria (2012).
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