Jacqueline Aust
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There is nothing that says 'I am here' as simply or directly as a gestural mark. Such marks express a sense of individuality, captured in a moment. In an art world where print is ubiquitous questions about the mechanics of production and about what is 'original' and what is 'copy' proliferate. I am interested in the paradox whereby 'original' is considered authentic and 'duplication' is discredited - yet the copy reinforces the value of the 'original'.  I have been exploring this paradox through printmaking and sculptural multiples. My recent work has focused on the totem - traditionally a being, an object or symbol that reminds a group of people of their ancestry or mythic stories. They can provide a means of coping with a way of life in which the physical environment and society chafe against each other.
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Totems to the Mark. 2014. Intaglio and relief print on Fabriano Artistico paper, cardboard tubes, installed size 2000 x 1200mm. Exhibited in Printmaking Beyond the Frame at the Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, 2014.
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Totems to a repeated Mark II, 2014. Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North.
Totems to a repeated Mark II, 2014. 10 x 10, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.
Totems, 2012.
Totems to a Repeated Mark, 2013. Crossing Boundaries, Northart Gallery, Auckland.
Totems to a Repeated Mark, 2013.
  • Home
  • News - Parkin Prize 2020
    • Disturbances - Exhibition of small works at Megan Dickinson Gallery
    • Displaced exhibition at Solander Gallery 2020
    • Distant Kinship 2019-20
    • Inkmasters Print Exhibition
    • MAC National Print Award
    • New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2018
    • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2018
    • Burnie Print Prize 2019
  • Print Projects
    • Invitation to Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2018
    • Printmaking - Beyond the Frame
    • Print Council Australia Commission
    • Australian Print Triennial Prize
    • 47° South Rakiura: Five artists on Stewart Island
    • News The Art Vault Mildura
    • Exhibition at Fundació Iluro, Mataró, Catalonia
  • Print Series
    • 2020 Displaced
    • 2019 Palimpsest
    • 2017 - Navigating series
    • 2015/16 - Després d'Espanya
    • 2013 - Enshrined
    • 2012 - Still Life
    • 2011 - Towers
    • 2010-2012 - Various
    • 2007 - Decision Series
  • Sculpture
    • Totems
  • Public Sculpture
    • Thought Pattern Diagrams
    • 2007 - Thought Pattern
    • 2006 - Decision Arc
    • 2005 - Decision Necklace
  • More
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Contact
    • Catalogues and Research
    • Workshops
    • Links