jac ball

PDA

20 september - 19 october 2019

Jac Ball's exhibition PDA* draws from camp aesthetics and the confessional genre online to explore the pleasures and complexities of queer representation.

Their photographs use collage processes to speak to ideas of excess, repetition and self-assemblage. The images are accumulative and in parts, playful and makeshift.

These intimate and exquisitely coloured photographic works demonstrate their prowess with a camera, along with the ability to create strangely compelling images via cropping, layering and collage. Ball notes, "I use collage as both a concept and material method. Collage can be messy and appropriative, and makes reference to loss, repetition and contradiction. It can invite embellishment, haphazard narrative structures and questions of authenticity. These provisional processes reflect the everyday qualities of self-making. They also overlap with dilemmas of queer representation."
[Statement 4 September 2019].

Colour has always been an important aspect of Ball's photographic practice. It unifies the images in each series; from the intense blues of A Collection of Organised Spaces 2010; the mauves and flesh tones of Fluctuate 2013, to the purples and blues of Room Service 2015. PDA reveals a fresh new palette of colours, combining saturated blues, pinks, oranges and purples to make this her most adventurous yet. The diversity of colours is in keeping with the broader range of subjects in this exhibition, including landscape and travel photography, alongside intimate bathroom scenes. Many of the images have been manipulated, layered and collaged, others have been staged for the camera. "Many images converse with ideas of gender and queerness through non-figurative content. PDA also references camp aesthetics and humour, unapologetic performances, and celebrations of self-making in trans and non-binary self-generated imagery online." [Statement 4 September 2019]

Jac Ball is a PhD candidate at Curtin University, and has been professionally exhibiting for ten years. Significant group shows include Looking but not seeing at the Benalla Art Gallery in 2018, HERE&NOW17 at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA, New Matter: Recent forms of Photography at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2016, Invisible Genres at John Curtin Gallery in 2016, Transcendental at Galerie Pavolva in Berlin in 2014, Dusk to Dark at the Queensland Centre for Photography and the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery in 2014, the prestigious Primavera exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney in 2013, and Remix at the Art Gallery of WA in 2011. Their artworks can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of WA, University of WA, Murdoch University, Wesfamers, Kerry Stokes Collection, North Metro TAFE and Artbank. This is their seventh solo exhibition.

 

 

* prices are unframed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

installation at turner galleries
installation at turner galleries
installation at turner galleries
sketching edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag, collage 110 x 174cm 2019 $2,600
date night edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 93 x 62cm 2019 $850	island cuts on the old prime meridin inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 109 x 65.5cm 2019 $1,000
not waiting to arrive edition 1/5 digital print on cotton drill 57 x 80cm 2019 $700	prepper inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 70 x 46.5cm 2019 $600
soft serve edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 80 x 53cm 2019 $700	dolphin camp inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 80 x 49cm 2019 $700
rule of thumb edition 1/5 digital print on cotton drill 142 x 94cm 2019 $1,800	peach fuzz and mascara inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 70 x 37cm 2019 $550
tender fat edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 85 x 45cm 2019 $700	green room inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 65 x 65cm 2019 $700
daylight savings inkjet print on rag + cotton drill edition 1/5 140 x 205cm [7 panels] 2019 $4,000
hot pixel mess edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 175 x 101cm 2019 $2,300	slow summer inkjet print on gloss + rag edition 1/5 105 x 70cm [2 panels] 2019 $1,300
home sweet homo edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 155 x 105cm 2019 $2,300	flatpack inkjet print onrag edition 1/5 109 x 69.5cm 2019 $1,100
transformation on tuesday edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 130 x 80cm [x2] 2019 $2,300	hotspot [with bed separation] inkjet print on gloss edition 1/5 93 x 51.5cm 2019 $650
aquarius edition 1/5 inkjet print on rag 80 x 65.5cm 2019 $750	beachside theatre, off-season inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 120 x 80cm 2019 $1,300
paint box mid-blue inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 110 x 160cm 2019 $2,300
shower scene 1 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900	shower scene 2 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900
shower scene 3 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900	shower scene 4 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900
shower scene 5 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900 sold 1/5	shower scene 6 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900 sold
shower scene 7 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900	shower scene 8 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900
shower scene 9 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900 sold 1/5	shower scene 10 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900
shower scene 11 inkjet print on rag edition 1/5 93 x 70cm 2019 $900 sold 1/5	micro dosing inkjet print on gloss edition 1/5 60 x 38.5cm 2019 $550