Jahnne Pasco-White lives and works in Gadigal/Sydney. Her expanded painting practice explores the interconnectedness between humans and our environment. Her intuitive, generous style of abstraction articulates itself in raw, gestural paintings on fabric and canvas. Hand dyed fabrics pigmented with organic materials gathered from her surroundings – including domestic debris and matter collected from the natural environment – are complemented by acrylic paint, oil stick, pastel and crayon. Into these surfaces, she introduces segments of old paintings, cut up and reworked in an ongoing cycle of decay and renewal. Pasco-White is interested in the generative process of creating, and the layers of authorship that are variously revealed and concealed by mark-making and her continuous process of addition, subtraction and reworking.
Pasco-White was the winner of the prestigious Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in 2019, and a finalist in the 2019 Ramsay Art Prize, Australia’s premier prize for emerging artists. She was the recipient of a 2018 Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and was awarded a Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Painting 2018-20 from the Australian Council for the Arts. Pasco-White has completed residencies in Germany, Italy, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia, including at LIA in Leipzig, the Rome Art Program, the Icelandic Nes Artist Residency, and Gertrude Contemporary. Pasco-White recently completed a Masters of Fine Art at Monash University, where she was a student representative on the Climate Task Force.
Making Kin
2020
natural dyed fabrics (avocado, black bean, sunflower, copper beech leaves, carrot, crab apple), earth pigments, violets, olives, crayon, pencil, recycled paper, linen, cotton, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
three panels; total 213.0 x 456.0 cm approx
Animals in the world like water in water 1
2019
olives, paper, pastel, grass, on cotton
210.0 × 150.0 cm
Animals in the world like water in water 2
2019
crayon, turmeric and fabric dye on cotton
120.0 × 130.0 cm
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
becoming with 11
2019
acrylic, limestone, pencil, crayon, oil pastel, pigment, cement oxide, cotton, paper, bark, soil, sand, olives on canvas
210.0 × 180.0 cm
Becoming with
2019
Installation view
Gertrude Studios
Photo: Christo Crocker
Inter-giftedness 7
2020
olives, paper, acrylic paint, canvas, linens, sand, bicarb soda, cement oxide, and natural dyes (olives, crab apples) on canvas
184.0 × 138.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness 8
2020
earth pigments, pastel, crayon, linens, cottons, bamboo fibre, soil, sand, rice glue, PVA, canvas and paper on canvas
180.0 × 130.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Bodily Feeling 3
2021
paper, cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (hibiscus, olives, blackberries, beetroot, avocado stones) earth pigments, rice glue, plant-based crayons, plant-based paints, pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas
152.0 × 198.0 cm
Motion in the Opposite Direction
2017
Installation view
Being here is Everything (What a Pity)
2019
Installation view, Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia
Photo: Saul Steed
Inter-giftedness 5
2020
raw pigment, earth pigment, rice glue, crayon, pencil, water, clothes, paper, natural dyes (beetroot) and acrylic paint on canvas
183.0 × 130.0 cm variable
Bodily Feeling
2021
Installation view
Becoming with
2019
Installation view
Gertrude studios
Photo: Christo Crocker
Messmates
2019
Installation view (detail)
Inter-giftedness 1
2020
earth pigments, rice glue, linen, cotton, crayon, grass, acrylic paint, oil stick, natural dyes (avocado skins and stones, beetroot, olives, stringybark), cotton socks, cotton, linen and paper
180.0 × 134.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness 11
2020
sand, soil, earth pigments, pastel, acrylic paint, cotton, linens, rice glue, PVA, natural dyes (olives, copper beech leaves, pine parks, beetroot, avocado skins) turmeric, salt and pencil on linen
185.0 × 215.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Bodily Feeling 5
2021
paper, cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (olives, rosemary, black bean, beetroot, avocado stones, and skins) earth pigments, turmeric, mandarin peel, rice glue, oil pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas
184.0 × 125.0 cm
Messmates
2019
Installation view, Daine Singer Gallery
Becoming with 19
2019
acrylic, pigment, beetroot dye, cement oxide on canvas
220 × 160 cm
Inter-giftedness 9
2020
natural dyes (olives, crab apples, blackberries), pencil, crayon, cotton thread, canvas, cotton and linen
180.0 × 132.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness 12
2020
sand, soil, earth pigment, crayon, acrylic paint,canvas, cotton, linen, paper, rice glue, natural dyes (olives, beetroot, pine bark, rosemary, cleavers, copper beech leaves, crab apple), cement oxide, rice glue and PVA on linen
321.0 × 235.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Messmates 6
2019
acrylic, fabric dye, pencil, crayon, oil stick, paper, canvas, cotton, linen, PVA, masking tape, bamboo on canvas
183.0 × 209.0 cm
Becoming Other 38, Drawing Wall
2020
Installation view
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton Australia
Inter-giftedness 2
2020
cement oxide, natural dyes (mushroom, lichen,beetroot, avocado skins), earth pigments, sands, soils, rice glue, PVA, pencil, turmeric, cotton thread, cotton, paper, clover flowers and linen on canvas
180.0 ×x 123.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness 13
2020
tumeric, earth pigments, clover flowers, mandarin skins and rice glue on canvas
275.0.0 × 274.0 cm variable
Rearranging my body (1)
2021
beeswax crayon, earth pigments, cotton, linen, beetroot and olive dyed cotton, pencil on canvas
144.0 × 202.0 cm
Bodily Feeling 7
2021
paper, cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, plant-based crayons, plant based paints, natural dyes (hibiscus, olives, rosemary, avocado stones, and skins) earth pigments, turmeric, rice glue, oil pastel, oil stick, pencil, acrylic on canvas
182.0 × 130.0 cm
Being here is Everything
2018
Installation view, Gertrude Studios
Photo: Christo Crocker
Becoming Other 38, Drawing Wall
2020
Installation view (detail)
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton Australia
Inter-giftedness 4
2020
natural dyes (paprika, pine bark), oil stick, earth pigments, rice glue, cotton and linen on canvas
180.0 × 123.0 cm variable
Rearranging my body (2)
2021
earth pigments, turmeric dyed cotton, linen, pencil, beeswax crayon, cotton thread, canvas
182.0 × 120.0 cm
Becoming with
2019
Installation view (detail)
Gertrude Studios
Photo: Christo Crocker
Messmates
2019
Installation view (detail)
Inter-giftedness 10
2020
natural dyes (paprika, pine bark), oil stick, earth pigments, rice glue, cotton and linen on canvas
180.0 × 123.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Bodily Feeling 1
2021
paper, linen, silk, cotton, plant-based crayons, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (hibiscus, olive, rosemary), oil stick, pencil, acrylic, earth pigments, plant-based paints, rice glue, pva on canvas
195.0 × 169.0 cm
Bodily Feeling 9
2021
paper, cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, plant-based crayons, natural dyes (hibiscus, olives, rosemary, beetroot, eucalyptus leaves and bark, blackberries, avocado stones, and skins) earth pigments, turmeric, rice glue, oil pastel, oil stick, pencil
180.0 × 125.0 cm
Bodily Feeling
2021
Installation view
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Inter-giftedness 3
2020
earth pigments, grass, violets, linens, cotton socks, pencil, natural dye (beetroot) and rice glue
180.0 × 130.0 cm variable
Inter-giftedness
2020
Installation view
Photo: Christo Crocker
Inter-giftedness 6
2020
natural dyes (beetroot, olives, crab apples, rosemary), grasses, dandelions, crayons, paper, cotton, acrylic paint, linen, silk, pastel, violet flower and leaves on canvas
181.0 × 126.0 cm variable
Bodily Feeling
2021
Installation view
Bodily Feeling 2
2021
paper, linen, silk, cotton, plant-based crayons, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (hibiscus, olive, rosemary) oil stick, pencil, acrylic, earth pigments, plant-based paints on canvas
194.0 × 107.0 cm
Bodily Feeling
2021
Installation view
Bodily Feeling
2021
Installation view
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Australia
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