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Jade Gillis
Jade Gillis is an emerging visual artist living and working on unceded Cadigal land. She is currently in her third year of her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Her work captures the fleeting visual delights of her everyday through the mediums of drawing and sculpture. She is particularly engaged with the interplay of light and shadow, and how this ephemera reveals and
conceals the spaces she occupies. Her practice also extends to capturing and suspending other transient matter such as the wind and sound, in time. Jade's mark-making practice, which is tethered to a meditative process, calls for quiet contemplation and pause. In this sense, her work finds itself entangled in the 'art of noticing' and in drawing attention to the quiet beauty of the everyday.
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dappled sunlight/ warming the sofa

Jade Gillis, dappled sunlight/ warming the sofa, 2024, Fibre-tip pen on paper, H 87 x L 62cm. Also featuring excerpts from 'catching, light', 2024, glass, wood, light and shadow, each H 48 x L 30 x D 20cm.
"All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light." - Arthur Zajonc

Through the chipped panes of my living room window, a fleeting interplay of light and shadow is cast. This body of work captures and suspends a delicate moment in time through the mediums of drawing and sculpture. Using a repetitive mark-making process to patiently capture the momentary interplay of light and shadow, my drawing italicizes the 'art of noticing' and calls for quiet contemplation and pause. By reimagining my drawing practice through the process of sandblasting onto glass - a similarly fragile medium - I invite the viewer to appreciate, for a moment, the subtle beauty of the everyday.