Australian artist Jayne Dyer is based in Beijing and Sydney. Her exhibition and award experience over 20 years indicates her commitment to inter‐cultural collaborative exchange, particularly between Australia and Asia. Her practice includes individual and collaborative projects, museum installations, commercial exhibitions and large scale permanent public and prívate commissions. Dyer’s practice is hybrid and multidisciplined, incorporating text, photographs, objects, drawing, audio and video, with a focus on installation. Her framework is underpinned by an insistent question - what is valued? She considers the veracity of individual and cultural assumptions about what is, and what constitutes, permanence and endurance. Art works point to change and imminent states of collapse. Dyer posits alternative scenarios.
Read MoreThe installations MEMORYspace and READING room (Taipei, 2011) reflect on community change and urban regeneration, And then we dream (Kinmen Island, 2011) and Then (Hangzhou, 2011) alert us to ecological fragility. And then we dream (Taipei, 2011) LED light words and books or empty picture frames stacked in a precarious tower-like formations intimate the uncertainty of our times. In Utopia (Beijing, 2010) inverted historic and contemporary landmark buildings and a soaring plywood skyscraper critique expected constructs of a contemporary Eden. I Wish (interviews undertaken in Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, Australia and England 2008-11) collects individual hopes and fears, and is a microscope to societal values and identity. In And then we (Sydney, 2011) and Talking in Tongues (Melbourne, 2010) LED light words present a conversation. Two people, two stories, pointing to communication and miscommunication. Black Friday (Taipei, 2008) and the Butterfly Effect series (Taipei, 2008/2010, Hong Kong, 2011) thousands of black butterflies swarm into domestic and public spaces to remind us of sustainability and our ecologically fragile environment. The Book Project – Taiwan (Taipei, 2009) and The Book Project – Korea (Seoul, 2009) remaindered and discarded books spill from a fissured wall and a museum skylight, signalling the rapid reduction of print media in line with the rise of internet media access, and reflect on the subsequent loss of opportunities for independent voice. The Reading Room and The Library of Forgetting (Sydney, 2007) books become the opus for what is lost, what is no longer valued.
