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Marking 30 years since Wyman began her undergraduate studies at QUT, Deep Surface is the first career survey of this Los Angeles–based Australian artist and Palawa woman. Over three decades, Wyman’s practice has traversed drawing, painting, video, performance, sculpture, textiles, and collage, with each medium exploring the porous boundaries between bodily interiority and exteriority, perception and experience, and individual and collective identity. The exhibition reveals the visual and conceptual complexity that has defined the artist’s diverse output and traces the evolution of her practice from the mid-1990s to today.
Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface’ offers readers a vivid, kaleidoscopic lens through which to observe and interpret three decades of the artist’s visually and politically charged oeuvre. Taking design inspiration from Wyman’s ‘Propaganda textiles’ fabric swatch books, the monograph’s four main texts are punctuated by vibrant, patterned waterfall pages. A richly illustrated chronology provides further context, tracing pivotal moments in Wyman’s career, illuminating her conceptual developments and evolving visual language.
Publisher: QUT Art Museum
Contributors: Katherine Dionysius, Dr Yuval Etgar, Soph Gibson, Dr Chari Larsson, Dr Hanna Rose Shell, Vanessa Van Ooyen and Jemima Wyman
Concept designer: Evi-O.Studio
Layout designer: Lisa Rafferty
Copyeditors: Evie Franzidis and Tiffany Johnson
Production manager: Tiffany Johnson
Distributor: Art Ink
Format: 290 x 230mm
Hardcover, cloth bound with debossed cover
ISBN: 978-0-6453076-4-1
208 pages
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Photo credit: Louis Lim
Jemima Wyman has been awarded the prestigious Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025 for her work, Haze 19, 2024.
Judging the $40,000 acquisitive award in 2025 was Dr Blair French, an accomplished arts leader, curator and writer originally from Aotearoa New Zealand and current CEO of the Murray Arts Museum Albury. In choosing the winner French noted:
“Jemima Wyman’s Haze 19, 2024, is an immediately arresting work, an explosion of colour and pattern billowing across the gallery space. Created from hand-collaged photographic work then printed onto chiffon drops creating a large, free-hanging curtain, Haze 19 is a visual accumulation of clouds of smoke generated at protests around the globe – political protests, social justice protests, human rights protests, environmental protests. The work conveys the fury, the energy and the interconnectedness of the contemporary world through a form with associations to various histories of textile print – fashion (clothing as both display and disguise), interior design, public proclamation. Simultaneously seductive and subversive Haze 19 is a standout work within an exhibition of outstanding contemporary textile art.”
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) announces the recipients of the 2024/25 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project (COLA-IMAP). The five master artists will each produce a series, set, or singular new artwork with a grant of $10,000 from the City of Los Angeles. The original works will premiere at DCA’s Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) in the Summer of 2025 as part of the 28th edition of DCA’s COLA-IMAP annual initiative.
The 2024/25 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project recipients are: Bryan Ida, Olivia Booth, Flora Kao, Carmen Argote and Jemima Wyman.
For Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, Commonwealth and Council will present a booth of works by Alison O'Daniel, Anna Sew Hoy, Carmen Argote, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Jemima Wyman, Rosha Yaghmai
December 6, 2024–December 8, 2024
An interview between Jemima and Robert Leonard is included in the inaugural issue of Town Hall. Along with texts related to: the inclusion of artist Archie Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose in the 2024 Venice Biennale, artist-curator Taloi Havini, Shannon Brett speaks to Judy Watson, collectives Taring Padi and proppaNOW.
A new large-scale commission will be exhibited at the Air exhibition, QAGOMA, Brisbane from 26 November 2022 – 23 April 2023
Flourish 10…has been acquired by HOTA Gallery for their annual Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.