tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301681117673545032024-03-14T01:22:08.684-07:00Jenny Hawkinson :: artistportfolio, process & inspirationJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-76469053040889158452021-08-23T13:13:00.001-07:002021-08-23T13:13:35.870-07:00Farm to City Mural<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Farm to City' was commissioned by Food Stash Foundation in Vancouver. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7eiMA4tTAb9NniauFnQ9ojM1phlRKZDIUm8NFYyT9kEVHtlWlP6K3uVrSRLICWlFDoC0Xu_-q13KDYdRj22V-8UAyZY5R1OdKTiqUjHaFpuyvg6qqpLAesQeWdz6TjfrTAIVLc8O2wtW/s4240/DSC03012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="4240" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7eiMA4tTAb9NniauFnQ9ojM1phlRKZDIUm8NFYyT9kEVHtlWlP6K3uVrSRLICWlFDoC0Xu_-q13KDYdRj22V-8UAyZY5R1OdKTiqUjHaFpuyvg6qqpLAesQeWdz6TjfrTAIVLc8O2wtW/s320/DSC03012.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span class="s1"><i>Pushing Through a Brick Wall </i>is a soft manifesto. The works in the exhibition use<b> </b>the visual language of domestic craft<b> </b>and textile to subvert and dismantle structures, physical and ideological, that seek to divide. </span><span class="s2">A brick wall is transcribed</span><span class="s1"> on a linen tablecloth through charcoal rubbing, a peace wall is transgressed by a wayward plastic bag, a flag emptied of nationalistic rhetoric<b><i> </i></b>declares “homeland, homesick, homeless.” This work springs from Hawkinson’s experiences in the contested territories of Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">In the mid 19th century Belfast was the linen capital of the world. In the early sixties linen mills began folding and Northern Ireland’s narrative was overshadowed by sectarian violence and division. <i>Linenopolis</i> and <i>Pushing Through a Brick Wall</i> were inspired by the physical and socio-political environments in Northern Ireland. The works </span><span class="s2">fall into the genre</span><span class="s1"> of ‘counter-monument’ by creating ephemera from actions that challenge how collective events are remembered and memorialized. Brick walls and monuments shift from permanent to permeable when transferred to linen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Interface </i>follows a plastic bag through the streets of West Belfast. It takes on an anthropomorphic quality; cowering in the shadows of the peacewalls and courageously transcending barriers. The print installation <i>Partition</i> explores the visual resonance between fences and lace patterns. <i>Waver </i>is a standard for the displaced, a marker for the anti-hero. Unlike flags found in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine; this flag is void of nationalist ideology. It’s symbolism reaches uncomfortably past human tendencies for belonging and nationhood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">With <i>A Journey of Significance </i>Hawkinson<i> </i>documents all the broken carvings from an olive wood factory in Bethlehem, Palestine. The figurines weave a universal story of expulsion and wandering. Similarly, <i>Diaspora</i> fits shards of ceramics found in Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem into a foreign form. It’s olive wood base hopefully inscribed with ‘RETURN.’</span></div>
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<span class="s1">These works aim to confront the operations of power through a contemporary reworking of artisan craft and domestic labour. The work is political, but in a poetically nuanced way. What is rigid and impassable becomes malleable. There is an invitation in Pushing Through the Brick Wall. One that resists discourse of rigid ideological positions and instead offers viewers a place at the table.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-86760009513392904932019-06-29T22:48:00.000-07:002019-06-29T22:48:01.043-07:00Beyond Barrier: Art Opening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My obsessive print making project has paid off! I have a solo show in Fort Langley next month. The prints will feature prominently on a wall facing the front door. I'm going to plaster the entire wall with lace and fences. Come see for yourself!</div>
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The inspiration. I walked past this window every day in Belfast. </div>
<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-9039760015987566532019-04-16T09:45:00.000-07:002019-04-16T09:45:49.053-07:00Poetry to Art Dialogue<span style="font-size: large;">I had a video piece in a group show at the Seymour Gallery a few years ago. Below is a piece that a local poet, James Witwicki, wrote in response to 'Monument for the Land'. </span><br />
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I'm churning out linoprints from drawings I made in Belfast. I'm not a printmaker so I don't feel tied to traditional forms of printing and displaying. I love the strong, graphic quality of the black line. I'm experimenting with abstracting lace doilies. The connection between lace patterns, some of which look more like maps or droopy chainlink fences, and the repetition of the barriers, are working for me. I might need a chiropractor eventually from the labor but its worth it. </div>
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<span class="s1"><i>“Can an artistic intervention truly bring about an unforseen way of thinking... can an absurd act provoke a transgression that makes you abandon the standard assumptions about the source of conflict? Can an artistic intervention translate societal tensions into narratives that in turn intervene in the imaginary landscape of a place? And can those kinds of artistic acts bring about the possibility of change?”<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-</i><i><span style="color: black;">Francis Alÿs</span></i></span></div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-82333217411257086662019-01-17T22:46:00.000-08:002019-01-17T22:46:18.753-08:00Proliferation and distillation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I read an article about one of my favourite artists, Francis Alys, recently. His artistic process was explained as a cycle of proliferation and distillation. He picks one idea and riffs on it with as many variations and mediums as he can. Then he distills it into its strongest form.<br />
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I'm in a studio season of proliferating. I made these sketches a year ago in Belfast as references for linoprints. I don't know where it will take me but I am enjoying the process.<br />
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<span class="s1"><i>I am here too</i></span><span class="s2"><i>. </i>Found hastily scrawled in a bus shelter. A simple phrase that captures the human experience.</span></div>
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<span class="s2">You can learn a lot about a place if you pay attention to details. Words written on walls make a simple message system for the sans-phone subculture. When I walk around I find rude comments and demands for justice. I also find tender encouragements, declarations of love and messages that plead for validation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s2">The linens are embroidered with words found on “the street.” The needlework reflects the street culture dichotomy of tough looking tattoos and tender sentiment. Customary with graffiti, words on walls don’t last long. Sitting with the text for hours while I methodically stitch it is like getting to know a new friend. I speak out the words, imagining what prompted the statement and who might have written it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s2">The tent drawings are my field notes. They record the hours I spent sitting with people near their tents. Sometimes we talk, and other times I am an entertainer as I put pencil to paper. If the drawing is unfinished, its because the relationship took priority.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-56164364040600047782018-09-28T15:18:00.000-07:002018-09-28T15:18:11.962-07:00'I Am Here Too' at the Orpheum Annex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-40091295366022563782018-09-03T05:43:00.003-07:002018-09-03T05:43:49.411-07:00Exploring the Glen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I went for a wee walk yesterday. I came across this locked gate and asked a woman how to enter the park. It's impossible to take shortcuts here; there are fences everywhere. Big fences, small fences, brick fences, charred fences, fences with razor wire... you get the idea. </div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-83957026283623957202018-09-03T05:15:00.002-07:002018-09-03T05:45:50.262-07:00Linenopolis It's not everyday that a textile artist lands in 'Linenopolis'. What I didn't know before I came to Belfast is that it supported the largest linen industry in the world in the second half of the 19th century.<br />
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This week I explored the city through graphite rubbings on fabric. It seemed like a good starting point. I did a similar project in London because there were so many monuments. In Belfast, monuments and commemorative plaques play a different role. Instead of honouring adventures who left to fight in foreign wars and conquer the rest of the world, these words honour the freedom fighters (or terrorists, depending on which side you're on) in their own country. Men who died as a direct result of the hunger strikes during The Troubles, graves marking the deceased from Catholic and Protestant communities. Brick and steel walls called <i>Peace Walls </i>that separate neighbours from any form of interaction.<br />
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The piece below collects words from West Belfast's Milltown Cemetery. I would go on about how imfamous this place is, but it's not necessary. Is there a piece of land in this city that hasn't seen sectarian violence?<br />
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Years ago I wanted to work towards a show called 'Rend/Mend'. I dropped the idea at the time, but it's resurfacing.<br />
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-64624401076295238502018-08-29T14:06:00.000-07:002018-08-29T14:06:31.089-07:00Festival installations and the end of summer<br />
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This month culminated in a four-day festival in the Midlands of England. My friends at <a href="https://www.spacetobreathe.eu/" target="_blank">Space to Breathe</a> commissioned me to make an installation for a reflective prayer tent located at the edge of the festival grounds. As you can imagine, camping in the UK for the last weekend of August was not the best for weather, but there's something about running for shelter from torrential downpour with hundreds of others that really brings people together. </div>
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This installation is called "Even the Heavens Will Speak". </div>
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I have a solo show in October! <i>I Am Here Too </i>will be displayed at The Annex, downtown Vancouver. When I return home from the UK I will have two weeks to prepare the work and then it's installed and out of my hands. Here's a small preview. </div>
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The final act of art (rebellion?) before handing in my keys for my studio.</div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-50101324760900569882018-08-17T14:02:00.001-07:002018-08-17T14:02:37.606-07:00The heavens declare her handiwork...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Thirty-five stars later and I'm finished! What a marathon. </div>
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In less than a week I'm flying to the UK to install my artwork at the Greenbelt Festival. My *new* studio looks like a sweatshop right now. Sewing machine, scraps of fabric everywhere, things pinned to the wall. It feels good to be in full production mode. These stars were inspired by collages I made a few years ago. </div>
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Some of the fabric was found on the streets in my neighbourhood (thoroughly washed of course) and others I found at a church bazaar. I love deconstructing familiar folk quilt shapes. </div>
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Install pictures to come soon!</div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-47218087936922372812018-07-04T22:02:00.003-07:002018-07-04T22:02:54.223-07:00Homeland, Homesick and Homeless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This week is full with documenting performance collaborations. I made the flag last year, hopeful to propose it as a public art piece for the City of Vancouver. Not surprisingly, my proposal for honouring sites of squatter communities through the decades was rejected.</div>
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The city painted over another Jenny/Street Artist collaboration. And this was my response. </div>
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The stencil was put up a day before I heard the news that I'm being renovicted. I have to be out by the end of the month. I'm not so sure this is an "ode to joy" but it will be nice to have a new space that doesn't smell like mold. </div>
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Any studio leads in the DTES? Let me know! </div>
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Once in a while I make paper cut-outs for a community-engaged, arts-based research project called 'Illicit'. I've learned a lot about the power of suggestion; how a simple shadow can set the stage for a profound work of art. </div>
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I have been loosely connected with this group since last year, when I was invited to make cut-outs for a performance that was installed in a back ally. Since the early days of Macgyvering a set on the fly, they have come a long way and are preparing for a performance at the Orpheum!</div>
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<br />Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06292908259350707441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130168111767354503.post-60588376626946961302018-05-17T22:28:00.002-07:002018-05-17T22:29:27.315-07:00Right to returnIn the wake of the U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem and the past seven weeks of protests in Gaza, this piece feels timely. I made <i>Diaspora</i> in 2016 after returning from a month long artist residency in Israel/Palestine. It's been sitting in my studio waiting for a wood base forever. I was forced to complete it for a group show next month (see below).<br />
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'Diaspora', ceramics from Hebron, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, olive wood, 2016</div>
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