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Bushfires, 2023
$1,550.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
One Night The Moon, 2023
$1,350.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Weipa Night Sky (Albatross Bay), 2023
$1,500.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Wet Season Grasslands, 2023
$385.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
soldUntitled, 2023
$385.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Gumnut Blossoms, 2023
$385.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Putts Palms, 2023
$350.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
soldLily Pond, 2023
$550.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Study (Green), 2022
$300.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Study (Red), 2022
$300.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Study (Yellow), 2022
$300.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans -
Weipa Satellites, 2023
$1,350.00 Jack Wilkie-Jans
Jack Wilkie-Jans
Audiences are encouraged to view Country through the artists’ mind and memory—a view of wonder, which attempts to capture the spiritual elements of loss, longing and joy. Through the marriage of European schools of artistry, the artists' body of work can be described as living emotive, emotional responses to concepts of both place and belonging. Less descriptive in ambition, the works are more an attempt at capturing the ‘aura’ and presence of Country. The artist challenges audiences to see Country as something intrinsic to the body and the mind of the artist as a First Nations person; one with a familial history of displacement, Cultural decimation, Cultural revival, resilience, and of homecoming, as well as of perpetration of colonial violence from one bloodline unto the other.
My works are symbols of the changes to contemporary Indigenous visual storytelling, as celebrated now: That the boundaries between European schools vs. Indigenous art, can look as varied as bloodlines now are. Yet, as artworks, the hangover of markets viewing traditional Indigenous works as [expensive] 'native curiosities' still lingers. Especially to do with artworks stemming from regions like Cape York Peninsula, where contemporary expressions (which don’t present as, inherently traditional, Indigenous works of art) are relatively new to the contemporary Indigenous art sector — let alone broader arts industry.
In spite of the changing face of the Australian ecological/societal landscape, our works are still expected to reflect our ‘ancientness’, which is a mode of racism; racialising an aesthetic of who are now mixed-heritage, domestic diaspora. As the oldest living Cultures on Earth, our diversified creative influences and artistic identity is as determined as our ongoing survival.
- Jack Wilkie-Jans
Also an awarded filmmaker, to view Jack's short film catalogue follow this link.
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