Press Release

STATION is delighted to present material immortality, Jahnne Pasco-White’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition considers life as part of a vast and continuous process of transformation, where forms emerge, dissolve and reappear within broader ecological systems. Through gestures of growth, decay, accumulation and renewal, the works reflect on the instability and interconnectedness of the natural world. Moving between the intimate and the expansive, the exhibition invites contemplation of fragility, persistence and the shifting relationship between human experience and the rhythms of the earth and sea.

Pasco-White’s practice is steeped in a rich body of research focusing on ecology, relationality and feminism. Her abstract visual language takes shape through raw, gestural paintings on fabric and canvas. Hand dyed fabrics, pigmented with organic materials gathered from her surroundings – including domestic debris and matter collected from the natural environment– are complemented by sewn elements, acrylic paint, oil stick, pastel and crayon.

Her works are an invitation to consider how we care for, consume and (dis)count the materials with which we are entangled.

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About the Artist

Jahnne Pasco-White lives and works on Gulidjan Country. Her expanded painting practice ex- plores the interconnectedness between humans and our environment. Her intuitive, generous style of abstraction articulates itself in raw, gestural paintings on fabric and canvas. Hand dyed fabrics pigmented with organic materials gathered from her surroundings – including domestic debris and matter collected from the natural environment – are complemented by acrylic paint, oil stick, pastel and crayon. Into these surfaces, she introduces segments of old paintings, cut up and reworked in an ongoing cycle of decay and renewal. Pasco-White is interested in the genera- tive process of creating, and the layers of authorship that are variously revealed and concealed by mark-making and her continuous process of addition, subtraction and reworking.

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About the Gallery

Established in Melbourne in 2011, with a second space opened in Sydney in 2019, STATION is dedicated to presenting an engaging, conceptually-driven exhibition program, with the aim of fostering rigorous, critically-engaged contemporary art practices. STATION represents a broad stable of established and emerging Australian and international artists. We are committed to bringing Australian contemporary art practices to international audiences and presenting opportunities for our artists to be positioned within a broader global dialogue.

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