Biography

This piece, 552, was created during Jessie Lewis’ Honours year completed at Monash University in 2012. In 2013 she will graduate with honours and will be seeking out Post-graduate study. She has exhibited in Melbourne and has assisted and participated in a variety of printing projects through Monash University and elsewhere. This is her first international presentation.

Open Folio

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“The city is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. Changes continue to give form to desires, and those…desires either erase the city or are erased by it.” 

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.

Through the use of various materials, methods and printmaking processes, modernist tropes of abstract art are revisited through an exploration of space. Simulating Modernist styles, exploring the importance of production, space and the grid are central factors of my practice. Lines compose the subject of the work, creating and interweaving foreground and background, blurring any certainty of the spatial presentation.