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These images are from a project I recently completed on the Raine & Horne building, Harrington Lane, Hobart. The work was completed over a few weeks in March 2012. Big thanks to Barry, Freya and the gang for being excellent clients: free creative license and a great big blank canvas! I'm very happy to have this one up in my home town.

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Monalalia, Jamin, used sand paper on wood, 90 x 120cm


Monalalia was selected as a finalist in the 2012 Glover Prize for landscape painting.

Here is the statement as submitted:

‘Monalalia’ engages with the uneasy alliance between the Tasmanian landscape and those institutions and interests that so often define it. In this current period, my thoughts return time and again to MONA. The building is quite possibly itself in an uneasy alliance with the land it sits on. Though when I think of landscape, I tend to consider it in terms of the political landscape, or the social landscape or the landscape of ideas. In fact, I personally consider ‘landscape’ as sitting outside of the natural environment. It is in this context, of the constructed landscape, that I place this work.

This ‘painting’ has been constructed with sand paper, each piece hand cut and laboured over. Similarly for me, I see the natural environment as having been locked in a perpetual struggle of labour with humans, sometimes mutually beneficial, at other times one sided. Sand paper, being a man-made product from mostly natural materials, is most often employed to shape and refine other natural materials into serviceable or decorative objects. I perceive a relationship between this aspect of sand paper, and a western-historical approach to the landscape. We have shaped, defined, refined, cultivated and destroyed the natural environment in which we live, to make it serviceable, picturesque, acquirable and productive.

I find great personal joy in both the creation of art and in the natural world. ‘Monalalia’ evokes the former, yet presents the viewer with a bleak vision of the later. Here the natural environment is almost gone, reduced to a sliver of shoreline that supports the behemoth perched above. The building reflects itself, like a colossal Narcissus gazing into the water. And yes, Narcissus was beautiful.

Jamin, 2012]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=144 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:15:10 -1400 <![CDATA[Some updates for 2012]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=141

Here is a pic of my studio wall… inspired by some of the painting I was doing in Paris. In other news I have been selected as a finalist in the Glover Prize for 2012 with my work 'Monalalia', something I am excited by and honoured to be a part of. I will post a pic of this work and some more info down the track.

I am also something of a free agent at the moment, as my main gallery, Criterion Gallery, closed last year.

Also, here is an article from The Mercury about my residency in Paris:

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/02/06/298471_tasmania-news.html

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WELCOME: Jamin, in his Hobart studio.
Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones
IN his home town of Hobart, street artist Jamin is more likely than not to run into trouble when witnesses observe him creating his installations.

During a recent residency in Paris, it was quite a different story.

"I would spend the day painting a wall and elderly people would stop and talk to me, or applaud and encourage my work," Jamin said.

"That doesn't happen often in Hobart."

Jamin spent four months in Paris as part of the Rosamond McCulloch Studio residency mostly on the streets, painting, but also visiting the many museums and galleries.

"Paris has a vibrant culture of street art, it's very welcoming," he said.

"There are many legal-type walls, on buildings that are due for demolition and areas associated with urban culture."

Jamin said he explored the theme of masks during his time in Paris and was inspired by artefacts he discovered in various museums and art galleries.

"There was one particular museum, the Quai du Branly, which was devoted to art from tribal cultures, which had an incredible collection of masks," he said.

"My experiences in Paris were definitely horizon-expanding, and will certainly inform the work I will produce now. I would love to see more work on the streets of Hobart as well, I am sure there are some grey walls around that could use a bit of colourful decoration."

hopee@news.net.au]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=141 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:43:54 -1500 <![CDATA[Recent works in the streets of Paris]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=138 Jaures 1 Bellevile 1 Jaures 2 Maraichers

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 -1500 <![CDATA[Paris Residency and Blog]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=136 image

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 -1400 <![CDATA[Shields Against the Enemy]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=129

Shields Against the Enemy


CRITERION GALLERY, Hobart
12 May - 11 June 2011

Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 May 1, 2011, 11.59pm: Who Made the Bed? , Jamin (After Lichtenstein), 2011, enamel spray paint on canvas, 120 x 160cm

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 are 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 -1400 <![CDATA[Paintings 2011]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=127 Off With Their Heads, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Soft as a Baby's Bottom, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Let Them Eat Cake, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Throw Them to the Lions, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Out With the Bath Water, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Out of Thin Air, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm It Takes Two to Tango, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Against All Odds, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Get Down to Brass Tacks, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Thank Your Lucky Stars, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Don't Get Mad, Get Even, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm Ai Wei or the Highway, Jamin, 2011, enamel spray paint on acrylic shield, 100 x 50cm May 1, 2011, 11.59pm: Who Made the Bed? , Jamin (After Lichtenstein), 2011, enamel spray paint on canvas, 120 x 160cm ]]> Paintings http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=127 Thu, 12 May 2011 14:50:51 -1400 <![CDATA[Shields Against the Enemy - Solo Exhibition May 2011]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=113

Shields Against the Enemy


CRITERION GALLERY, Hobart
12 May - 11 June 2011

Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 Shields Against the Enemy - Jamin, Criterion Gallery, 2011 May 1, 2011, 11.59pm: Who Made the Bed? , Jamin (After Lichtenstein), 2011, enamel spray paint on canvas, 120 x 160cm

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 -1400 <![CDATA[Next Show]]> 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/
http://www.facebook.com/thenextshow]]> Home http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=110 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:26:59 -1400 <![CDATA[Everyone's a Winner]]> http://jamin.com.au/php/index.php?itemid=119

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 -1400