Meaning and Connection 2018

A solo exhibition of new work by Jessie Willow Tucker, Sep 20–Nov 11 2018 at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.

Jessie Willow Tucker paints landscapes as sites for exploration of personal experience. Her nostalgic fantasy worlds are interrupted by graphic and textural elements that reference the commodification of imagery and role of the contemporary viewer.
In “Meaning & Connection” she invites engagement and conversation around some of the most fundamental human desires, the gallery space being transformed to welcome viewers in to become participants in this conversation. Using the metaphor-laden language she has developed in previous work, she explores the role that words, imagery and context play in the subjective process of defining and finding meaning and how the creation of narratives and the identification of patterns both requires and creates connections.
Jessie embraces traditional romantic and kitsch landscape painting, as well as pop cultural symbols and text. Her work exists in a space somewhere between the flippancy and self consciousness of social media, the over saturated sincerity of “self help” wisdom, a fascination with the aesthetics of nostalgia and a deep, heartfelt longing to be real.

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