Jumaadi

Liquid Dreams | Jumaadi

Liquid Dreams | Jumaadi

1 - 23 December, 2021

Jan Manton Gallery is pleased to present Liquid Dreams by Jumaadi on show between 1 - 23 December 2021. Liquid Dreams continues the artists’ exploration of watercolour and gouache on paper and delves into the artists' portrayal of isolation through a series of bare horizons. Jumaadi’s new works acknowledge the landscape’s continuity and finds solace in feelings of loneliness.

Catalogue essay writer Taylor Hall states: Painted with gouache and watercolour on paper, Jumaadi creates each work with a sense of intuition, fuelled by daydreams which flow, like paint, through the brush and onto paper. In describing his works, Jumaadi says they, “accommodate my thoughts and feelings... before forming their compositions intuitively; flowing through the grass in some meadow... they become the answers, and at the same time they also become the questions. They are a record of my liquid dreams.”


Photograph of Jumaadi taken by Matt Chun.

From the Studio

Jan Manton Gallery caught up with Jumaadi to learn more about his upcoming solo exhibition Liquid Dreams on show between 1 - 23 December 2021. 

Gallery Intern Embie Tan Aren talked on the phone with Jumaadi to hear more...

 

Jumaadi – Cry baby Cry: 23 Oct – 16 Nov

Indonesian born Jumaadi came to Australia in 2008 to study at the National Art School, Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Master of Fine Art. Living and working in Sydney, Jumaadi has regular exhibitions in Australia and participats in international exhibitions, residencies and workshops.  He is currently performing at the Moscow Biennial.

Cry baby Cry is the first solo exhibition of Jumaadi in Brisbane and follows a successful launch of his work in a group exhibition, Platform 2013, in August 2013.   Cry baby Cry will feature works on paper, wall mounted aluminium works and wood sculptures.   ‘Loneliness was part of it‘ is a series of small works featuring TS Eliot poetry – “let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient otherwise upon a table : let us to through deserted street, the maturing retreats of restless night in one-night cheap hotels, and sawdust restaurants with oysters shells”.

34 gouache on canvas paper, 21 x 15 cm.