Jan Davis, Trace
September 15 - October 29 2011, Exhibition opening event Saturday September 17, 2-5pm
trace: a vestige or mark left by some past event; a path or trail indicating the passage of a person or thing; to follow the tracks, the course, the history of something; to find out, to discover; to make one’s way.
trace has its origins in a story which begins with an encounter between explorer Angus McMillan and a white woman in an Aboriginal camp in Gippsland in 1840. In the manner of making my own way across this historical landscape I have imagined particular events, artifacts and places from the narrative and bundled them together with my topographical knowledge of the region. I offer them as contemporary vestiges of an unfinished story.
trace has its origins in a story which begins with an encounter between explorer Angus McMillan and a white woman in an Aboriginal camp in Gippsland in 1840. In the manner of making my own way across this historical landscape I have imagined particular events, artifacts and places from the narrative and bundled them together with my topographical knowledge of the region. I offer them as contemporary vestiges of an unfinished story.
Jan Davis studied printmaking at Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne and graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in 1981. She completed a Master of Arts at Southern Cross University in 1995. Jan has made works on paper since the early eighties; drawings, prints, and digitally-generated photographically-based works including artists’ books. She mounted the first of four solo shows at Niagara Galleries in Melbourne in 1988 and is now represented by grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane. Her work is included in the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian National Library, Canberra as well as many State collections. In 1995 she won the Fremantle Print prize with SOLOMON, a digitally produced seven-volume artists book. She currently holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University following a
twenty-five year career as an academic. She is now working full time in her studio.
Jan Davis
Born 1952, Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Lives and works, Lismore, NSW
twenty-five year career as an academic. She is now working full time in her studio.
Jan Davis
Born 1952, Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Lives and works, Lismore, NSW
Click to view: 2011 Digital print in edition of 5 84cm x 100cm © jan davis