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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Jasmine Targett in Three New Exhibitions this October
This October I am in three fantastic group exhibitions. Details of the Exhibition Openings are on each Gallery Website below. Hope to see you there - J 11 Oct - 1 Nov 2014 LANDSCAPES: From here to there - Curated Ryan Foote Hawthorn Studio + Gallery - 635 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East, Vic. 17 Oct - 30 Nov INCINERATOR ART AWARD - Art for Social Change Incinerator Galley - 180 Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds, Vic 24th Oct - 6th Dec LINDEN POSTCARDS SHOW 2014 Linden Center for Contemp...
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Jasmine Targett Awarded Senini Sculpture Prize
Jasmine Targett's latest installation'What the eyes do not see' has been awarded the 2013 Mary and Lou Senini Sculpture Prize at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park. The work: "At night when I look through my telescope I often wonder could there be another person with a telescope looking back at me?" I suffer from what 17th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon called ‘a mystified incomprehension that science alone cannot cure.’ When I think about observation I sense there is a greater con...
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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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Life Support Systems Awarded City of Melbourne Grant
Way back in 2011 I was awarded an Arts Project Grant for Emerging Artists from the City of Melbourne for my the development of my project: Life Support Systems. The brief: To create a series of weather maps that use data from NASA Earth Observing Satellite to chart the history of monitoring Earth’s Atmosphere and today’s attitudes towards Climate Change: the forecast for tomorrow. The weather maps will be created using the high-tech glass designed by NASA for the visor of space suit helmets. The...
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News – Hello lovers
Hello tribe! Welcome to my fantastic new site deigned by myself and the epically amazing talents of Miss Debbie Symons. My partner in crime for all things art related. To get you up to speed on where I have been and where I am heading, please forgive me as I mercilessly re-post some of my highlights over the past few years. My three blogs to date still exist but won't be updated as much any more... jasminetargett.blogspot.com crumblingecologies.blogspot.com life-support-systems.blogspot.com If y...
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