Jess Tan is a Boorloo-based artist whose work stems from an associative drawing practice to form a biomorphic language that expands into sculpture and site-specific installations. Tan collects from the residual of what she has eaten, broken, found and previously made, as well as what the things around her have made in the process of being. She likens her studio activities to an endless circulation of slow digestion, regurgitation, indigestion and re-digestion as she navigates various stages of learning and learning. She often works in collaboration with humans, materials and environments. Her practice follows an inquiry into how materials morph through ongoing reconfiguration and can generate unfamiliar ways of knowing and understanding through their affective capacities. This follows a series of process-led transitions that lead to outcomes that embrace failure, adaptation and uncertainty as matter transforms into altered states, adopting an internal logic as they accumulate. A practice formed through material dialogue.
Represented by AVA (fka sweet pea gallery)
andrew@a-v-a.gallery
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