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JARNAH MONTERSINO

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, Jarnah Montersino is an emerging artist with a multidisciplinary practice encompassing textiles, sculpture and painting. Often incorporating everyday materials into her work, Jarnah uses her practice to reflect on the human condition. This work draws from her studies, work and research within social science, human rights, art and design.

^{FLOW STATE: This collection of work explores perceptions through materiality.

Utilizing domestic matter and techniques to build sculptural object and paintings. The vessel forms are inspired by structures found in ancient amphoras.

A combination of post-consumer
cardboard andlayered plaster fabrication create deceptively light, durable and liminal objects. The paintings are developed using an iterative process exploring abstraction. Beginning with a pattern of mark-making, the works are cut, reorganised and sewn togethe in a quilt-like practice.

Layers of paint and found sand are used to further build cohesionand layers across a seemingly disconnected work. Figurative forms are set in reclaimed frames reflecting on constructed and multifaceted perceptions of self and identity.}

^{A Human Can Fit In The Heart Of A Whale, 2022, acrylic, paper, thread and sand, 84x67cm, framed.}

^{Threshold #6, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 23x28x16cm.}

^{Unity of Opposites #1, 2022, plaster, wood, cardboard, paper , 53x41cm, framed.}

^{Threshold #4, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 27x36x26cm}

^{In Jupiter, The Rain Is Made Of Diamonds, 2022, acrylic, paper, thread and sand, 64x43cm, framed.}

^{I Think It’s A Piano #2, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 80x60x60cm.}

^{Threshold #5, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 27x36x26cm.}

^{It’s Full of Tiny Gems, 2022, acrylic, canvas, thread and sand, 37x31cm, framed.}

^{Threshold #1, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 28x29x18cm.}

^{Memento Mori, 2022, plaster, wood, cardboard, paper, 44x51cm, framed.}

^{Unity of Opposites #2, 2022, plaster, wood, cardboard, paper, 53x41cm, framed.}

^{I Think It’s A Piano #2, 2022, acrylic on plaster and cardboard, 80x60x60cm.}

^{ULTRA: This body of work considered the unrepeatable nature of a moment. A series of
paintings that codify a recent time, with

each work marked by the precise
second in which the piece was completed. Building on this concept
further, vessel forms

are built from a combination of post-consumer cardboard
and layered plaster fabrication, creating liminal pieces that

reflect
interaction, perceptions and time spent with transient material objects. This idea
can be observed by the use of

mosaic techniques, incorporating broken
plates once used by the artist’s children, solidifying a number of personal and

simple moments in time, honouring the heritage of their uniqueness.}