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Whalen offers viewers a site to contemplate the borders of internal and external landscapes, connection, and belief.
About Jodie Whalen (she/her)
Working within a multidisciplinary practice of video, sound and installation, with concepts informed by appropriating her own personal history and popular Western culture, Jodie Whalen offers viewers a site to contemplate the borders of internal and external landscapes, connection, and belief. She is interested in how repetition, and replication of imagery, sounds and motifs are harnessed to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms, signifying time and transformation. Whalen explores how symbols of earthly experience and liminal space become metaphors for our understating and experience of the unknown – a window into realms of physical, metaphysical, and spiritual possibilities.
Driven by a desire to give physical form to the intangibility of fraught emotional states such as grief, anger, fear, love and hopefulness. Seeking to be site for intimacy, desire and the body experienced individually and collectively. Whalen’s online work is personal, intimate and introspective, whilst the onsite components are intended to be a shared experience.
Biography
Living and working on Gadigal and Darug Land. Whalen graduated from The University of New South Wales- Art and Design with a Master of Fine Art in 2013. Whalen has exhibited at Carriageworks, Artspace, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Performance Space, Nextwave Festival Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Modern Art, and Campbeltown Arts Centre. Selected highlights include- BLEED 2022 Online and IRL, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Arts House Melbourne, Taipei Performing Arts Centre and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. Work Out, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. DEEP TIME AND PLACE, THE PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES OF AN EXPERIMENTAL ART CINEMA IN AUSTRALIA,10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Whalen has been a finalist in the following Prizes; NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, The Blake Prize, The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, and the Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award. Her work is held in private and government collections.
Recent works
“Driven by a desire to give physical form to the intangibility of fraught emotional states such as grief, anger, fear, love and hopefulness.”