JAHNNE PASCO-WHITE
Bodily Feeling
20 November – 18 December 2021
STATION | SYDNEY
Jahnne Pasco-White’s expanded painting practice is steeped in a rich and diverse body of research, with focuses including ecology, relationality and feminism. Drawing inspiration from Stephanie Erev’s writings, she takes the term ‘bodily feeling’ to mean the way the changing environment of our surroundings affects our bodies, evoking unconscious reverberations that impact upon our physiology and psychology.
Pasco-White's 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: bright yellows, greens and blues conversing with pink, fleshy tones and muddy, earthy pigments. Into these surfaces, she introduces segments of old paintings, cut up and reworked in an ongoing cycle of decay and renewal.
An openness to porosity and the contamination of body, domestic life, studio, and the natural world into the paintings are fundamental to Pasco-White’s practice. She sees painting as a sensorial exploration of what it means to exist in the world, composing her lived experiences of being in the mess of life into her paintings, as an archive of sorts. Critically reflecting on her place in the world and unpacking her environmental impact while continuing to produce material objects, she approaches her painting practice from a position of joyful pragmatism. Working from her studio in regional Victoria, Pasco-White has created a body of work that celebrates the generative process of making and offers possibilities for joyfulness as a form of activism.
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 2021
installation view
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 4 2021
paper, cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (hibiscus, olives, black bean, blackberry, beetroot, avocado stones) earth pigments, rice glue, plant-based crayons, plant-based paints, pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas
145.0 × 193.0 cm
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 6 2021
cotton, linen, canvas, beeswax crayons, natural dyes (olives, rosemary, beetroot, avocado stones, and skins) earth pigments, turmeric, rice glue, oil pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas
184.0 × 134.0 cm
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
Jahnne Pasco-White
Bodily Feeling 8 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 × 130.0 cm
Jahnne Pasco-White
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
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