Despard Gallery is please to present a solo exhibition by Jenny Orchard, Bush Of Ghosts, featuring her signature ceramic sculptures, alongside new works on paper. Jenny Orchard was born in Turkey, grew up in Zimbabwe and now lives in Sydney. Her distinctive ceramic works are simultaneously strange, familiar, organic and peculiar, morphing eccentric figures with vegetative elements. Characterised through bold colours, multiple textures and floral adornments, Orchard captures the awkward collision between art and the fragile future of biogenetics. Inspired by native Australian fauna and flora, decorative traditions and postmodernism, her beautiful and vibrant mutations lament the loss of species and biological changes caused through environmental disruption.
ARTIST INTERVIEW VIDEO
‘My Random Variable Identities (RVI) are also called Mulitspecies, they represent the living world as we are beginning to know it, as chance combinations of creatures, -micro -organisms, bacteria, viruses, and technology; all living in bodies, and plants, the oceans and the clouds. Bio and genetic engineering allows our imaginations to fly, our experiences to multiply, and we are connected in ways we are only beginning to understand. My creatures ask questions and form relationships with the viewer and those they encounter.
They are the playful happenstances of our interconnected planet, where diversity, curiosity and art collide.
There is however a darker side to the works as we say goodbye to the species we have destroyed whilst creating our new Anthropocene. These creatures peer back at us from their extinct status in a Bush Of Ghosts.’ – Jenny Orchard 2020
EXHIBITION VIDEO
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EXHIBITION IMAGES
#1 JENNY ORCHARD Meditation with metamorphosis 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 42 x 18 x 15 cm $3,950.00
#3 JENNY ORCHARD Ammit and Bes 2020 earthenware clay and glazes 50 x 35 x 35 cm $3,950.00
#2 JENNY ORCHARD A Monkey And A Crocodile Can Live Together In The New Garden 2020 earthenware clay and glazes 55 x 30 x 35 cm SOLD
#4 JENNY ORCHARD Meditation On Multiplicity 2020 earthenware clay and glazes 49 x 30 x 30 cm SOLD
#5 JENNY ORCHARD The Blue Rose Of Impossible Longing 2020 earthenware clay, glazes & feathers 64 x 24 x 20 cm $3,450.00
#6 JENNY ORCHARD I Saw The Wattle Walking Into Spring Rain 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 62 x 32 x 30 cm $3,750.00
#7 JENNY ORCHARD Aided Eye Phytoplankton 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 46 x 32 x 20 cm SOLD
#8 JENNY ORCHARD Chthonic Multi Creature with Black Boots 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 70 x 33 x 24 cm $4,750.00
#9 JENNY ORCHARD Seabird 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 78 x 30 x 35 cm $4,500.00
#10 JENNY ORCHARD The False Bride Of Lapsing 2017 Earthenware clay and glazes 63 x 29 x 28 cm $3,500.00
#33 JENNY ORCHARD OncewasanAlbatross #hiddenoceans 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 43 x 42 x 39 cm $2,950.00
#34 JENNY ORCHARD Seamare with lost wing 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 32 x 33 x 17 cm $2,500.00
#35 JENNY ORCHARD Pregnant ExRat 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 43 x 34 x 14 cm $3,500.00
JENNY ORCHARD Foot Vase 2018 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 23 x 19 x 8 cm SOLD
#32 JENNY ORCHARD Polka Cup 2018 Earthenware clay and glazes 12 x 20 x 10 cm $350.00
#11 JENNY ORCHARD Poppyfield 2019 Earthenware with glaze and on-glaze enamels 105 x ø 35 cm $5,500.00
#12 JENNY ORCHARD Spring Totem 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 173 x ø 40 cm $7,500.00
#13 JENNY ORCHARD Plantanimal Watching In The Garden Night 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 168 x ø 45 cm $7,500.00
#14 JENNY ORCHARD From A Strange Emu's Egg 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 184 x ø 50 cm $7,950.00
#15 JENNY ORCHARD Wattle Spring 2020 Earthenware clay and glazes 162 x ø 45 cm $7,500.00
#16 JENNY ORCHARD More Than Human Poster Series #1 2020 Paint and collage on paper 76.5 x 56.5 cm $1,100.00 (unframed) $1,450.00 (framed)
#17 JENNY ORCHARD More Than Human Poster Series #2 2020 Paint and collage on paper 76.5 x 56.5 cm $1,450.00 (framed)
#18 JENNY ORCHARD More Than Human Poster Series #3 2020 Paint and collage on paper 76 x 56 cm SOLD (framed)
#19 JENNY ORCHARD More Than Human Poster Series #4 2020 Paint and collage on paper 76.5 x 56.5 cm $1,450.00 (framed)
#20 JENNY ORCHARD Catbirdfishmushroomant (More Than Human Poster Series) 2020 Paint and collage on paper 56 x 38 cm $975.00 (unframed) $1,250.00 (framed)
#21 JENNY ORCHARD Aftertheworld (Multispecies Poster Series) 2020 Paint and collage on paper 56.5 x 38 cm SOLD
#22 JENNY ORCHARD Planetmind (More Than Human Poster Series) 2020 Paint and collage on paper 59.5 x 42 cm $975.00 (unframed) $1,250.00 (framed)
#23 JENNY ORCHARD Jasmin (More Than Human Poster Series) 2020 Paint and collage on paper 70 x 50 cm $1,050.00 (unframed) $1,400.00 (framed)
#24 JENNY ORCHARD Persian Griffin 2020 Paint and collage on paper 59.5 x 42 cm $975.00 (unframed) $1,250.00 (framed)
#25 JENNY ORCHARD Change Is Possible, Hope Is Power 2020 Paint and collage on paper 70 x 50 cm $1,050.00 (unframed) $1,400.00 (framed)
#26 JENNY ORCHARD The Origin And Exinction Of Species 2020 Paint and collage on paper 76.5 x 56 cm $1,100.00 (unframed) $1,450.00 (framed)
#27 JENNY ORCHARD Love Changes Everything 2020 Paint and collage on paper 59.5 x 42 cm $975.00 (unframed) $1,250.00 (framed)
#28 JENNY ORCHARD Binart Life 2020 Paint and collage on paper 59.5 x 41 cm $975.00 (unframed) $1,250.00 (framed)
#29 JENNY ORCHARD Sun Water Toth 2016 Paint and collage on paper 76 x 56 cm SOLD (framed)
#30 JENNY ORCHARD Season Of The Witch 2016 Paint and collage on paper 76 x 56 cm $1,450.00 (framed)
