Jacqueline Rose, Text-ile #2, 2021
Enigmagnetic is an exhibition of drawings / collages that are meditations on line and movement. The drawings evoke music and choreographic notations; tapestries and tapa cloths; ancient writing tablets and 20th century Abstraction. The drawings are presented as a collection of manuscripts or ‘reading room’ with the works resting on tables rather than installed on the gallery walls, echoing the Woollahra Gallery’s history as a library.
The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by the poet Emily Stewart (Winner of the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021). This project is supported by a Woollahra Council Cultural Grant.
Jacqueline Rose is a Sydney-based artist. She has a Master of Visual Arts (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney) and lectured at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She was awarded the Cité Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris (Power Institute & Australia Council). Her projects include a series of etchings inspired by Franz Kafka’s Josephine the Singer (with John Loane: Viridian Press). Her works have been shown at the National Gallery (Canberra); AGNSW; Artspace (Sydney); Canberra School of Art Gallery; Canberra Contemporary Art Space; RMIT Gallery (Melbourne); CAST Gallery (Hobart); Launceston University Gallery; Annandale Galleries (Sydney); Christine Abrahams Gallery (Melbourne); Charles Nodrum Gallery (Melbourne); James Dorahy Gallery (Sydney) and Cross Art Projects (Sydney). Her works have been featured in art and literary publications including The Drama Review (MIT Press); RealTime; Art and Australia; Art Monthly; Higher Arc and HEAT literary journal. Her drawings and etchings are in the collection of the National Gallery, Canberra.