I am excited to announce that the City of Melbourne have launched their New Catchments Project Video. Check it out via the link below. We would like to thank the team at Creative Spaces for the honor of being their first artists in residence, CLIMARTE for their tremendous support during the Art+Climate=Change Festival, the LAB-14 + Carlton Connect Initiative for their awesome guidance and research support during our residency, but most importantly, thank you to all of the beautiful Melbourne fo...
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Jasmine Targett + Debbie Symons awarded $20k Residency
We are thrilled to announce that Melbourne Artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett have been awarded the first Artist in Residence at Creative Spaces: Carlton Connect Studio for their new body of work -The Catchments Project. The City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program has established a studio at the Carlton Connect Initiative’s (CCI), LAB-14, with the specific intention of positioning artists amongst researchers, academics and entrepreneurs addressing issues of sustainability and resili...
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Blind Spot opens at Linden Center for Contemporary Art
Blind Spot opened in May at Linden Center for Contemporary Art as a part of the 2014 Innovators Program. About the work- My latest installation project, ‘Blind Spot’, has been a daring attempt to map out a large three dimensional hole in space. A complex and multifaceted anti-form that is as optically impossible to describe as the space inside an atom. Blind Spot describes one of the most significant environmental discoveries of our age- the Ozone Hole. Like an iceberg looming in space, it is a...
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Jasmine Targett awarded Australia Council Grant
In 2013 I was awarded a New Work grant for a two year project that will push my practice beyond limitations and to new heights (literally in this case!) Brief: ‘Blind Spot’ is a Techno-romantic craft installation aiming to explore the blind spot in perception surrounding nature and existence.... ‘In every observation there is a blind spot, the spot on the retina where the optical nerve is connected making the eye blind on that very spot, all one can do is try to move these blind spots, in an ef...
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Crumbling Ecologies Awarded City of Melbourne Grant
In 2012, the Crumbling Ecologies Project was awarded full funding and support from the City of Melbourne’s Arts Projects. Overview: The Crumbling Ecologies Project uses the ecological conundrum as a metaphor to discuss crumbling diversity and sustainability in Melbourne’s diminishing arts schools. The works presented critically address how the economic climate has affected the infrastructures that support artistic practice in Melbourne, commenting on how the culture of learning is changing. Obje...
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