"Each of Entanglement’s exhibiting artists - Jahnne Pasco-White, Bronte Leighton-Dore, Dane Lovett, Seth Birchall and Alexandra Standen - produces work which transcends the vernacular, resting instead in a place of meditative compose. Through deep inquiry into connectedness - to each other, to the nostalgic domesticity of everyday life and to the natural environment - they cultivate artworks defined and distinguished by gestures which find commonalities and articulate the delicate thread which intrinsically links them.
Jahnne Pasco-White’s transformative processes explore materiality and temporality leading to a tangible richness in her paintings. Naturally hand-dyed fabrics and works on canvas reach beyond their researched genesis leveraging found materials from her surroundings alongside acrylic, oil stick, pastel and crayon to produce abstract works filled with a sensorial allure evolved directly from her critical reflection of place.
Sharing related thresholds between domesticity and landscape as seen in Jahnne’s work, Bronte Leighton-Dore distills the singular colour-ways, quality of light and atmosphere of the Australian landscape alongside still life vignettes, often painting en plein air to capture the essence of her environment before returning to the studio to rework the canvas, layering colour and texture to impart an engaging duality - between flux and repose, stillness and movement, natural and manmade.
Deepening the enduring exploration of nature, domesticity and the beauty of their liaison, Dane Lovett’s paintings emerge from a play between realist techniques and an experimental approach to image-making. Elegant depictions of flowers and foliage in a reduced palette emphasize design, tension and balance, despite the nostalgic modesty of the subject matter.
Seth Birchall’s paintings assume the botanical expressions of the other artists as if by osmosis, to transcend the already vibrant atmosphere cultivated by the entanglement of mediums and visual identities. Composed from found photographs, sketches and memories of Australia and Bali, Seth’s work is anchored by Expressionism and Impressionism tilted by subtle references to an interior universe of his own making.
Integral to the Entanglement exhibition is the work of Alexandra Standen whose ceramic forms bring a fresh depth of experience to each individual artwork. Through their material affinity with landscape and their composed symmetry, Alexandra’s sculptural pieces are defined by coincidental alliances that form all around them. The silhouettes of her vessels are deeply familiar, intrinsically traditional yet tempered by imperfect textural qualities which tell the story of their hand-worked creation".
Text by Tiffany Jade, Creative Concierge
