Jasmine Mansbridge is gearing up for her first Sydney exhibition since 2018 next month, with a body of work she began creating last year during a residency at the Chateau Orquevaux in rural France.
“I took the partially completed paintings home to my studio in country Victoria to add the colour and finish them,” she says. “I have always loved to travel and create work in new environments because of the way my subconscious absorbs and then produces new elements within my practice as a result.”
Jasmine says she can see the visual influence of French architecture and decoration in the latest works. “The show title and concept, Poetry Buried in Geometry, emerged as a means to explain an overarching idea that our ways of being can be divided into two parts: our poetry and our geometry. If the geometry is the fixed point in our lives: the structure, the unchangeable immovable part, then the poetry is the emotion, the feelings, the soft and the flowing. The juxtaposition of these elements feels like a warm and poetic approach to an ever more complex world.”
The artist, who has has been painting for more that 20 years, has become increasingly interested in using her practice as a way to draw attention to and explore the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of lives. “I am curious about the worlds that exist within us and outside of us. The things that we don’t quite have all the answers for. The universe and the celestial systems, dreams, religious ideas, consciousness, serendipity, fate, luck, science and love. All subjects that have captivated me throughout my life and can be looked at via the Poetry Buried in Geometry’ lens.”
Her paintings always start with a pencil drawing on stretched raw linen. She then fills the space around this with white gesso and adds the colour last. “This preserves my original mark and the energy of the idea. It is a very meditative process that requires time and concentration,” she adds.
“All my life I have been drawn to colour and within my practice I am always wanting to push this as far as I can. To not stay within my comfort zone. This sees me continually mixing paint to get the particular shade I want and is one of the reasons it is easier to bring work back to my home studio for this part of the process.”
Jasmine says every painting in the exhibition will resonate differently with each individual. “This is the beauty of art I know. As an artist, I aim for every piece to be aesthetically pleasing before going out into the world, to then be layered with new meaning and significance assigned via its collector.”
Poetry Buried in Geometry opens on 4 May 2024 from 2-to-4 pm at the Micheal Reid Northern Beaches gallery at 2/358 Barrenjoey Road Newport NSW 2106. For all enquiries or to register for the catalogue.
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