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Some snaps of recent street paintings I have done in Paris.]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=138 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:48:18 -1600 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=136

I am in Europe for a residency at the McCulloch Studio at the Cité in Paris. On my way there I will visit the Biennale in Venice and check out some other bits or art and culture in Italy and England. You can catch up on what I am seeing and doing via my tumblr: jamin-art.tumblr.com. Arrivederci. ]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=136 Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:38:24 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=129

Shields Against the Enemy

CRITERION GALLERY, Hobart
12 May - 11 June 2011



Click here for images of works

Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information. Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay. 1

We live in a relationship with the world that is mediated by competitive forces. It is a marriage of lust and violence, woven into a mythic narrative about ourselves in which we figure as hero, saviour and inheritor of a blessed heritage. We are possessed of a most potent salve of self-forgiveness and a scathing tongue of recrimination. We the adepti at the Church of Lesser Evils.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. 2

Throughout history we have sublimated our transgressions against the other. In turn, we have accreted in vast storehouses the memory of transgressions committed against us. We hold the potential energy of these forces in check with the feathery weight of our self-restraint.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. 3

We promote that which we despise and cast down that which we hold dear.

Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true… Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil and Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. 4

We are the chosen elite, the custodians and overlords of planet Earth. We are the self appointed arbiters of morality and profanity, and we enforce our dictates through elaborate and pervasive systems of technology. We are the architects of poverty, the engineers of exclusion. Billions stand behind us.

We are the enemy, and we are on drugs. 5

Jamin, 2011


1. Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (1967, p. 63).
2. Abraham Lincoln in a letter to (Col.) William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864.
3. Aldous Huxley
4. Jesus Built My Hotrod, Ministry, 1991
5. Enemy, Scars on Broadway, 2008]]> Solo Exhibitions http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=129 Thu, 12 May 2011 17:30:00 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=127 ]]> Paintings http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=127 Thu, 12 May 2011 14:50:51 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=113

Shields Against the Enemy

CRITERION GALLERY, Hobart
12 May - 11 June 2011



Click here for images of works

Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information. Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay. 1

We live in a relationship with the world that is mediated by competitive forces. It is a marriage of lust and violence, woven into a mythic narrative about ourselves in which we figure as hero, saviour and inheritor of a blessed heritage. We are possessed of a most potent salve of self-forgiveness and a scathing tongue of recrimination. We the adepti at the Church of Lesser Evils.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. 2

Throughout history we have sublimated our transgressions against the other. In turn, we have accreted in vast storehouses the memory of transgressions committed against us. We hold the potential energy of these forces in check with the feathery weight of our self-restraint.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. 3

We promote that which we despise and cast down that which we hold dear.

Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true… Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil and Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. 4

We are the chosen elite, the custodians and overlords of planet Earth. We are the self appointed arbiters of morality and profanity, and we enforce our dictates through elaborate and pervasive systems of technology. We are the architects of poverty, the engineers of exclusion. Billions stand behind us.

We are the enemy, and we are on drugs. 5

Jamin, 2011


1. Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (1967, p. 63).
2. Abraham Lincoln in a letter to (Col.) William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864.
3. Aldous Huxley
4. Jesus Built My Hotrod, Ministry, 1991
5. Enemy, Scars on Broadway, 2008]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=113 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:52:34 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=110

Sneak peak of my work in progress for:

NEXT SHOW - Exhibition put on by Aedan Howlett and Alphabetrix

45 Melville St, 6pm Saturday, October 30th + All day Sunday 31st

"ONE night, ONE day, 40+ radly awesome artists and HUNDREDS of square meters of art.

We have hired out a warehouse for a weekend to put on a street event of moumental proportions. We have a massive aerosol collab wall, painted objects and an open exhibition. It will be a fully licenced event so NO BYO. After spending a few hours enjoying the incredible array of artwork from all sorts of artists, there will be an AFTER PARTY at the Brisbane Hotel with Brand New Second Hand and DJ BTC & friends. The theme for the Bris festivities is "soundtracks" with a dress up theme of "films" so get ya frock on!"

More info here:

http://www.alphabetrix.com.au/nextshow/
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Everyone's a Winner, Jamin, 2010, spray enamel and projection on wall, approx 2m x 2m

This work with an accompanying video was created on the wall of the Mill Providore Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, in an exhibition curated by Fernando do Campo titled 'The Oyster's Locale', October 2010.]]> Installations http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=119 Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:25:00 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=108

Everyone's a Winner, Jamin, 2010, spray enamel and projection on wall, approx 2m x 2m

This work with an accompanying video is currrently on display in an exhibition curated by Fernando do Campo called 'The Oyster's Locale' at the Mill Providore Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania.

The exhibition runs from 25th August till 3rd October, 2010.]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=108 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:58:46 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=106 ]]> Paintings http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=106 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:03:16 -1500 http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=105

Wolves in Sheeps Clothing, Jamin, 2010, spray enamel and acrylic paint on wall, approx 3m x 4m, with painting Force #1, Jamin, 2008, spray enamel on coated steel, 110 x 110cm

This work is currently on display at Poimena Gallery, Lunceston, as part of the exhibition Spray Drip Stroke, curated by Ben Miller. The exhibition runs from 25th June till 15th July.

The artist statement is this:

Force #1 was produced early in 2008, not long after Rudd's election victory in late 2007. The work responds to the shift that was occurring at a local (Bartlett), national (Rudd) and global (Obama) level in politics at the time. Presented amongst works depicting those other politicians, each piece was layered with a textual counterpart sourced from historic and contemporary sources - it would seem somewhat prophetically as it turns out, and infused with warning.

In Force #1, the text is sourced from Sun Tzu's Art of War, and reads:

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness."

The other work I have presented for this exhibition will be completed on the day of the show... I am sure you now have a better idea of what it is, than what I do at this point, 5 days out from the opening...

Jamin, 21 June 2010





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