LAB14 Artist in Residence:
The Catchments Project
by the City of Melbourne
In The Catchments Project artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett have researched how humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets surrounding water. Their understanding is that these actions will in part define our collective future in the 21st century. The works address the challenge and complexity of The City of Melbourne’s climate change adaptation studies, surrounding reduced rainfall and drought.
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Melbourne artists line up 1000 clear glass bottles for the Catchments Project
by Suzanne Carbone
The Age, March 2015.
The sound of Barry White's velvet voice is an aphrodisiac for swooners and the disco god's inclusion in a Melbourne arts project is making water and science sexy. You are right to say: "A dozen oysters, please." At the former Royal Women's Hospital in Carlton, the City of Melbourne has established the Creative Spaces LAB-14 studio, and artists Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett received a $20,000 grant for "The Catchments Project", a three-part venture about climate change adaptation surrounding reduced rainfall and drought....read more
Craft Review: Emerging Contemporaries.
by Kerry-Anne Cousins
Sydney Morning Herald, February 2015.
Recycling and environmental issues are among the concerns of artists today and the work on display reflects this trend. Jasmine Targett's telescopes are joined by a hand-blown glass bubble (What the eyes do not see) that negates their ability to be used. It is a visual metaphor for the blindness of those who cannot see the effects of environmental degradation. ....read more
by Dylan Rainforth
Sydney Morning Herald, June 2014
Jasmine Targett, has used NASA satellite data to represent the ozone hole – and the invisible terror of anthropogenic environmental harm – as a human-scaled, realistically iceberg-shaped sculpture. Because, like an iceberg, it’s what we can’t see that we should be afraid of....read more
by Dan Rule
Sydney Morning Herald, June 2014
This year’s Innovators series at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts wrangles the limits of perception, believability & spatiality from several different vantages.... Britt Salt & Jasmine Targett’s sculptural installations are highlights. While Salt’s vast canopies draw our attention to the dynamics of space, Targett’s mountainous sculpture – created using layers of Perspex – forms a prism of shifting, changing colour....read more
by Incinerator Gallery
In 2014 Jasmine Targett was shortlisted for the Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change. This video gives an insight into the exhibition and its context within the community.
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JASMINE TARGETT FEATURED ARTIST
by Incinerator Gallery
This video highlights Jasmine's shortlisted installation Blind Spot, selected as a premier artist in the Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change.
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JASMINE TARGETT IN WONDERLAND - MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TAIPEI
by Art Emperpor
In 2012 Jasmine Targett was invited to exhibit in Wonderland at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei.
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THE CURMBLING ECOLOGIES PROJECT
by Madeleine Hinchy
Vogue Living, April – May 2012
The closure of Numerous Melbourne Art Studios inspired Jasmine Targett's installation of more than 35,000 Hand-Cast, Fine Porcelain Geranium Leaves. In a nod to the fragility of the art community, almost 100 artists have contributed leaf castings to The Crumbling Ecologies Project. Until 9 June at Craft Victoria....read more
CRUMBLING ECOLOGIES: CRAFT COMMUNITY FRAGILITY
by Emma Koehn
Lip Magazine, May 2012
Craft and community are intertwined concepts, but both are under threat. Our affection for all things handmade has not been enough to preserve the fringes of arts education during tough economic times. Artist Jasmine Targett noticed this, and from it sprang a sprawling, delicate project that brought countless crafters together....read more
by Dylan Rainforth
The Age, April 2012
Across Australia's universities, specialist craft departments - glass, ceramics, tapestries, metals & jewellery - are being shut... Targett worked with students, teachers & artists to create thousands of fragile porcelain geranium leaves (pictured) symbolising this fragile craft ecology....read more
DAZZLING GLASS REVEALS HIDDEN CRISES ON EARTH
by Wendy Zukerman, Asia-Pacific reporter
New Scientist, October 2011
When the Earth is in crisis the impending threat can often be difficult for us to see. We can't spot UV rays bursting through the hole in the ozone layer. Nor can we watch the sea rise as we relax on the beach. "From Earth, ecological conundrums can evade our sensory perception," says Melbourne-based artist Jasmine Targett. To redress this, Targett created Life Support Systems....read more
RADIO INTERVIEW: THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARTISTS & CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
Reporter: Vivien Langford
Artists: Jasmine Targett and Debbie Symons
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Blog Articles
SPACE TRAVEL MEETS ART IN REFLECTIVE EXHIBITION
by Emily Walker
Inspired by the iconic images of Earth reflected in astronauts’ visors in the 1960s, a new installation uses NASA’s lens technology to focus on the Earth’s environmental challenges. Jasmine Targett’s series 'Life Support Systems', is the headline work at Wonderland: New Contemporary Art from Australia, the first multi-art form exhibition of Australian art in Taiwan....read more
by Jasmine Targett
My interdisciplinary arts practice aims to investigate the ‘blind spot’ between nature and existence. Exploring the tension between perception and visibility, my work brings into focus the unseen, overlooked and unforeseeable. My latest installation project, Blind Spot, Linden Innovators 1, has been a daring attempt to map out a large three dimensional hole in space....read more
AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS EXHIBIT IN TAIWAN
by Jane O'Sullivan
Wonderland: New contemporary art from Australia surveys recent development in art across a wide range of mediums, including interactive installations, moving image and art and science collaborations. It has been curated by Antoanetta Ivanova. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, where it has already attracted 10,000 visitors since opening on 10 Feb....read more
by Emily Walker
What do you get when a solar scientist, a cell biologist and an artist collaborate? An unusual multi-media exhibition. The Similarity of Parallel Worlds, opening at Craft Victoria today as part of the Making Sense exhibition, is the result of Monash University Fine Arts student Jasmine Targett's collaboration with Dr Alina Donea from the Monash Centre for Astrophysics and Dr Judy Callaghan of Monash Micro Imaging....read more
CHARITY ART AND DESIGN AUCTION FOR ANIMALS
by Penny Craswell
A diverse range of pieces from 31 designers and artists has been curated by Liane Rossler for Compassionate Voices, a charity art and design auction being put on by Voiceless, the Animal Protection Institute... Still on the shelter theme, artist Jasmine Targett’s work is called Architecture for Bees, a response to Colony Collapse Disorder, the phenomenon of bees disappearing around the world. Fascinated in the overlap of art with science, Targett has used handblown sandblasted glass originally engineered for the visor of NASA’s space suit helmets to create the work....read more
by State of Green
If you love animals and you love design, the Compassionate Voices exhibition will be right up your alley. Launched last week, this Sydney based exhibition forms part of the Sydney Design festival, and celebrates animals, art and creativity in Australia. Design guru and sustainable design advocate Liane Rossler has waved her insightful curation brush over this event, so you can rest assured you will be in for a unique display. And we all have the opportunity to bid on each artists designs whether in person or online tonight!The Compassionate Voices exhibition is a collaboration between animal protection institute Voiceless, Australian homeware and furniture store Koskela and 31 innovative Australian artists specifically selected by Liane....read more
by Tim Denshire-Key
A few weeks back I headed over to the east side to take part in the Crumbling Ecologies Project. Crumbling Ecologies is a project by artist Jasmine Targett. I spent a couple hours on Saturday afternoon dipping geraniums in ceramic slip. It was quite a relaxing experience, but you might ask why?... The themes backing up Crumbling Ecologies resonated with me. I’ve seen a similar winding back of technical education in the industrial trades and arts. There’s been attempts to segment and decontextualise skills into narrow job specific chunks, which then has the effect of removing the knowledge of where these chunks sit and relate within a broader skill base....read more
by D*hub - Powerhouse Museum
Crumbling Ecologies: the impact of impending economic forces on Melbourne’s art and culture. Jasmine Targett’s Crumbling Ecologies project uses the ecological conundrum as a metaphor to discuss crumbling diversity and sustainability across Victoria’s diminishing arts schools. The works presented critically address how the economic climate has affected the infrastructures that support artistic practice in Victoria, commenting on how the culture of learning is changing....read more
UNDERNEATH THE CRUMBLING ECOLOGIES
by Debbie Pryor
Last week Jasmine Targett invited Craft Victoria into her studio to view the preparations for her upcoming exhibition with us, Crumbling Ecologies and discuss the show’s development. It was inspiring to visit such incredible Ceramic and Glass facilities at Monash University, Caulfield campus – in particular the glass studio with first class equipment, situated in a rooftop studio with an extraordinary view. Devastating to hear that these facilities are closing down, particularly in a city renowned for its thriving craft and design culture, surely a rich and inspiring education system is needed to build and nourish the community? Jasmine’s project directly discusses the closing of the craft facility, using the endangered geranium as an icon....read more
by Ella Leoncio
Over the weekend I helped hand cast geranium leaf sculptures for Jasmine Targett's installation "Crumbling Ecologies." With the help of volunteers, Jasmine will be producing approximately 35,000 hand cast leaves. The installation will be exhibited at Craft Victoria... The installation discusses the art community as an ecology which is currently under threat. With the closure of studio facilities across many art schools, art practices are under serious threat...I really enjoyed contributing to this community produced art piece. Apart from the sheer pleasure of making these delicate little sculptures, the creative energy of the group, coming from such a diverse range of backgrounds, left me quite inspired....read more
GERANIUMS - CRUMBLING ECOLOGIES
by Jess
Last week I participated in The Crumbling Ecologies Project which was/is being thought/conducted/conceived/organised/followed-through by artist Jasmine Targett... the project discusses craft and its role in art and the (hopefully not, but likely) impending doom of subjects such as glass and ceramics in Universities. Geraniums were selected to represent this as, in many parts of the world, they are becoming endangered or extinct, and also for being socially associated with old and out dated....read more
by Caitlin Perry
....Whilst the handmade porcelain Geranium leaves were beautiful and tactile in their own right, I could not draw myself away from the live Geraniums that appeared to be hovering on and through the tabletops. The tabletop part of the installation demonstrated a successful use of materials (in particular live and static, solid and transparent). This palette created a heightened and altered relationship to not only the airspace but also the ground plane....read more
by Karen Thompson
Jasmine Targett and Debbie Symons recently collaborated on ‘Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres‘, and their latest work ‘Losing the Unique‘ is at Shifted Gallery in Richmond...This work continues the focus on the changes seen in nature and implicitly questions the role of humans in this shift....read more
by Kristen
Earlier this year I answered a call-out by artist Jasmine Targett for help preparing for her upcoming exhibition The Crumbling Ecologies Project at Craft Victoria. The project comments on the increasingly endangered “craft” studios at art schools (e.g Tapestry, Glass, Ceramics)...It’s been a real pleasure to be involved with Jasmine’s project – not only did it teach me a new skill (casting organic material! So exciting!), but I also got the chance to meet and chat to some talented, crafty people....read more
INSIDE THE REALM OF INVISIBLE SPHERES
by Karen Thompson
While I was checking the next market dates at the Abbotsford Convent, I came across the listing for exhibitions... ‘Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres‘ is a collaboration between Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett. I very much liked this show. Exhibition media states: “These works explore the shifts of perception that occur when our awareness of reality through observation is deconstructed, exposing a rupture in the natural order. Spheres and bubbles with their infinite and sensitive boundaries mark out fragile positive and negative spaces." ....read more
