ARTitecture - JAHM

February - September 2024

ARTitecture presents works by artists represented in the JAHM collection, each expressing an idea related to architecture and the built world. However, unlike architects, these artists are unencumbered by the demands of functionality, such as the client brief, regulations, budgets, constructibility, context, sustainability and timeframes that are imposed on architects in producing a work of architecture.

With this unencumbered freedom what are the artists saying? Are they reflecting and critiquing how architecture is created, on how we engage with it when realised? What impact does it have on our lives and what impact does it have on our future?

Using art from the JAHM collection, these big ideas will be explored through interactive guided tours.

Each tour is followed by refreshments in the private apartment where recent acquisitions to the JAHM collection are on display. JAHM tours of ARTitecture are available to book now.

Gernreich’s Muse, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100cm

JUSTIN ART HOUSE MUSEUM

3 Lumley Court
Prahran VIC 3181 Australia

THE RETURN - FIVE WALLS (Gallery 3)

15 March - 1 April 2023

THE RETURN stems from a curiosity around the relationship between the mod fashion movement and early to mid-20th-century geometric abstraction. I’ve taken as my influence the mod fashion pioneer Mary Quant - a devotee of the geometric fantasies of Kandinsky and Mondrian - and the American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, who took influence from the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Op Art movement.

My paintings reposition the geometry of mod textiles into large format works that merge references to Quant and Gernreich’s designs with the early modernist sources that inspired them.