Brighton Rocks Art Wall
3/10/22 - 17-10-22
Brighton Rocks is an independent New Orleans-inspired bar in Brighton, England. Their Art Wall showcases local Artists and Photographers.
Danger is the newest body of work from Jessica. This exhibition combines experimental printmaking and painting, with a range of unconventional processes and ‘everyday’ materials. Like the use of duct tape and images of construction sites.
Inspired by punk art and copy art, this exhibition explores Jessica’s experience with living in Australia and England.
22 February – 5 March 2019
Exhibition opening: Friday 22 February, 6-8pm
Dudley House, Bendigo, Australia
In Static Waves, glitches and misuses of technology are a starting point for artistic output. Using and misusing materials and tools like the Photocopier, paper, and CRT Televisions, the artists create large multi-media installations and works on paper.
Found objects are continually reworked to create new possible meanings or interpretations. A photocopier becomes a movement capturing device, mannequins reference machine circuitry, optical illusions become twisted distortions. These works set out to capture how static/white noise and movement can be documented in an image by taking advantage of technology.
This exhibition comprises part of the Dudley House Community Arts Programs’ Hire Subsidy Grant.
1/5/2018 – 18/5/2018
Exhibition Closing Event: Wednesday 16 May, 5–7pm
Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University presents Intercalibration, an exhibition of solo works by emerging artist and Visual Arts Honours student Jessica Murtagh and works from a collaborative project with local multi-disciplinary artist and musician Pete Byrne.
Unlike traditional exhibitions, Murtagh’s project will use the gallery as a production space; a way to experiment and test ideas on a large scale. Intercalibration will continuously evolve throughout the exhibiting period with the artists offering experience and insight into the production of art-making. Murtagh invites viewers to encounter this process by visiting the gallery during the exhibition, as works continue to appear, evolve, and sometimes disappear.
The closing event on the 16th May was a celebration of what has been created and also an opportunity for audience to watch a public performance by Murtagh.
Jessica Murtagh is a Bendigo-based artist. Her solo practice investigates expanded printmaking, as well as installation, video and performance. She challenges the accepted categories of art by using technology to expand and contextualize printmaking’s definition, analyzing the relationship between mark making and the networks of the artwork’s process.
“I use tools like an iron to make marks on thermal paper, it’s just a very immediate form of printmaking. As soon as the heat touches the paper it turns black, and makes these really interesting transfers. I think it’s exciting to explore outside traditional printmaking, like etching or woodcuts”, says Murtagh.
Pete Byrne’s solo practice investigates the body and mind, exploring these themes through enigmatic film photography, as well as printmaking, and bold colourful paintings with stylized figures.
Together the two artists map and piece together what it means to collaborate and the dynamics of production. They respond to themes of reproduction and degradation, all while creating large scale multi-media works.
Iron Piece performance
Performers: Jessica Murtagh
Date: 16 May 2018
Time: Wednesday 5 - 5:30pm
Venue: Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Creative Arts building, La Trobe University, Bendigo
Free: You are welcome to enter and leave at any time during the performane
3/9/2017 - 10/9/2017
Phyllis Palmer Gallery Annex, Bendigo, Australia
It’s Complicated was the first exhibition of Jessica experimenting with digital distortion.
Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo, Australia
8/2/2016 - 10/5/2016
Left to Chance has taken an ordinary item and 'cooked' it in the microwave to create giant patterned art works.
The two ordinary items, receipt paper rolls and the microwave are combined to create art in the exhibition.
The exhibition, which was open at the Phyllis Palmer Gallery at La Trobe University Bendigo, is the first solo exhibition by the third-year fine arts student.
The large finished products each span separate wall spaces and can measure up to about eight metres by three metres in size.
While each wall took about four to five hours to create, Murtagh said it only took 30 seconds in the microwave to create the patterned paper rolls.
ABC Central Victoria / By Larissa Romensky
Microwave cooking used as paintbrush for artwork by Bendigo artist
