As we awaken from the isolation we have been under for the last few months, new and exciting things are beginning to take shape as we come out of it.
On its 38th iteration, the SAM Drawing Wall has become synonymous with celebrating creative talent and connecting artists and the Greater Shepparton Community. This series of large-scale commissioned artworks enliven the foyer space at the entrance to the museum.
Jahnne Pasco-White is the artist who has been commissioned to produce the next Drawing Wall. From Chewton in Victoria, she often works with the re-purposing of previous works, and incorporating organic materials and pigments drawn from natural matter alongside the traditional medium of acrylic paint.
Jahnne’s Drawing Wall Becoming-other, responds to the environment of Greater Shepparton and the agricultural and aqua industries. She has sourced waste-product fruit from local suburban areas and independent fruit and vegetable farmers to extract natural dyes and pigments for use in the artwork. Using organic materials against those traditionally identified with art making, such as acrylic paint, results in swathes of rich colour and texture.
A body of her work is held in the Bendigo Art Gallery collection as the recipient of the 2019 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. She was also the recipient of a 2018 Art Gallery of New South Wales’, Moya Dyring Memorial Studio scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and was awarded a Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Painting (2018-20).
Jahnne Pascoe-White’s Drawing Wall exhibition at the SAM entrance from Riverlinks Eastbank runs from June 12, to August 5.
