Jinks characterizes his human geography with a hermetic presences, frozen in their most intimate and quiet fragility, the body is reduced to the purest form of expression. In these figures, all the details become necessary to the reading of the work, a fold of skin, a wrinkle, a pose, a sign of the times.
Read MoreSam Jinks lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. His work is included in The Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Dehli, India; the Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporaenea (MEFIC); the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Collection, Victoria, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria and Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton. Among his most important exhibitions: PERSONAL STRUCTURES: Time, Space, Existence, La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Bembo (2013); Sam Jinks: Body in Time, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton and touring Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore (2012); Double Vision, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin (2011); Truth and Likeness, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2006/2007).