"In my arts practice I make work with my hands, computers, microscopes, telescopes and people. The hand made has an intimate and authoritative quality that computer and machine generated art is lacking. Both mediums within my practice inform one another. Closing studio based media in art schools including ceramics, tapestry, glass and metals will have serious ramifications on the type of art being produced in Melbourne. The aesthetic of art and the culture of learning will change entirely. The experience of collective studio based practice, interrogating ideas through dialogue, debate and extended investigation will unravel. You simply can't use a computer to communicate the expression in a piece of clay that has been squeezed in a moment of rage. You can't learn about art in a classroom, that is why artists for hundreds of years have had studios; laboratory and museum-like spaces to manifest and cultivate their ideas. If we limit the means we have to learn than we limit what progress can be made through creative endeavor." - Jasmine Targett
“Observation challenges the way we understand the world, sometimes thinking about observation changes what we see.” – Jasmine Targett on Observation, 2011.
In 2010 Jasmine was the recipient of a Young Artist Grant from the City of Melbourne for her research project Life Support Systems. Due to the works cultural and artistic merit it has been curated into Wonderland at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, 2012. Jasmine is completing a PhD on Sensing Ether: a studio based investigation into Perceiving Atmosphere, Light and Life Support Systems at Monash University with the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award.
‘It’s hard to imagine a more opportune moment for ‘making sense’ of environmental issues, which clearly present us all – scientists and non-scientists alike – with a huge challenge... Jasmine Targett’s works bridge a crucial gap, presenting complex, disturbing data in lucid, evocative, even surprisingly beautiful form.’
– Professor John Gregory, Making Sense: from the Sublime to the Meticulous, 2011.
For more information on Jasmine - http://jasminetargett.blogspot.com
Jasmine Targett Curriculum Vitae
Born and
currently resides in Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Crumbling Ecologies, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2011
Making Sense,
Craft Victoria and Federation Square Urban Screens, Melbourne
Bubbling Up, Dianne Tanzer Gallery and Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival,
Victoria
2010
We Follow the Light, Pieces of Eight, Melbourne
2009
Losing the Unique, Shifted Gallery, Richmond Victoria
Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, Victoria
Curious Opulence, EGetail, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Us and Them: Umwelten, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Wonderland, Museum
of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Australian National Glass
Prize Finalists Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Wagga Wagga
Australian National Glass Gallery Student Prize, Finalist, Wagga Wagga NSW
2011
Tom Malone Glass Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Media Specific, Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Victoria
Encore, Glass
Artists Gallery, NSW
2010
Ranamok, National
Touring Exhibition highlights- Canberra Glassworks ACT, Cairns Regional Gallery
QLD
Greater than One, Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Monash
Reflections of the Modern World, Toyota Gallery, Port Melbourne
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist, The Substation, Williamstown.
Australian National Glass Gallery Student Prize, Finalist, Wagga Wagga NSW
2009
Senini Sculpture Award, Finalist, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, VIC
Colour Accord, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford, VIC
Publications & Press
2012
The Age - A Dying Art? By Dylan Rainforth.
Vogue Living – The Crumbling Ecologies Project, Madeleine
Hinchy.
Lip Magazine – Crumbling Ecologies: Craft Community,
Fragility by Emma Koehn.
Australian Art Collector – Australian Artists Exhibit in Taiwan by
Jane O’Sullivan.
2011
New Scientist – Dazzling glass reveals hidden crises on
Earth by Wendy Zukerman, Asia-Pacific reporter.
Beyond Zero Emissions – Beyond Zero talks to artists Debbie Symons &
Jasmine Targett on the collaboration between artists and scientists to look at
the view of Climate Change.
Carbon Arts – Making Sense, Jasmine Targett & Debbie
Symons.
Monash University Research
Press – Art vs. Science by Emily
Walker.
Making Sense Exhibition
Catalogue - Making Sense: from the
Sublime to the Meticulous by John Gregory.
2010
ABC 6pm News ACT & NSW –
Jasmine Targett: Atmosphere in the Ranamok Glass Prize 2010.
University WA, SymbioticA
Symposium: Unruly Ecologies - Featured
Artist- Jasmine Targett.
Craft Arts International, No
79 - Pre-Text by Anita Taylor.
Ranamok Catalogue Essay by Tina Oldknow, Curator Modern Glass- Corning
Museum of Glass New York.
2009
Craft Arts International, 76
– Questions of Scalability by Gordon
Bull, Head Art School, ANU.
Melbourne Jeweller - Losing the Unique: Shifted Gallery, Richmond.
Karen Thompson.
Artabase, Editorial - Jasmine Targett - Glass Artist.
Awards & Grants
2012
Recipient, Arts Project
Grant, City of Melbourne.
2011
Recipient, Monash University
Research Publication Grant.
Recipient, Australian
Postgraduate Award for Post Graduate Research, Monash University.
Recipient, Morgan
Philanthropic Arts Trust Grant.
2010
Recipient, Creation of New
Work- Emerging Artist Grant, Melbourne City Council.
Hon Mention, Ranamok Glass
Prize-Tina Oldknow- Curator Corning Museum of Glass New York.
2009
Recipient, Monash University
Research Publication Grant.
2008
Recipient, Latrobe Regional
Gallery Acquisitive Contemporary Art Award.
Other Career Highlights
2009-11
Finalist Highlights, Tom Malone Glass Prize, Creation
of New Work- Toyota Community Spirit Travel Grant, Australian National Gallery
Glass Prize, Williamstown, Contemporary Art Prize,
Senini Sculpture Award at McClelland Gallery.
Professional Related
Experience
2011
Project Manager Research
Symposium - Art and the Communication of Climate Science: Making Sense of how artists
and scientists can collaborate on the question of the ozone hole and
biodiversity in Antarctica.
2010
Research Project - The Similarity of Parallel Worlds: Collaboration
with scientists from NASA & MMI
Research Project - Life Support Systems: Funded by the City
of Melbourne Arts Grants, research with NASA EOS Satellite Data Centre and CBS
Glass USA.
Tipping Point Conference
participant – Melbourne.
2009
Founding Member - Brown Paper Artist Collective.
Academic History
2013 PhD Fine Arts, Monash University.
2010 Master of Fine Arts by research Glass, Monash University.
2008 Honours Degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts-Glass, Monash University.
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts -Painting, Monash University.
Collections: Latrobe
Regional Art Gallery – Victoria
Accredited Professional
Memberships: NAVA, Craft Victoria and
Ausglass.
