Jenny Crompton
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Concerned with the growing pressures imposed on the natural world, Australian artist Jenny Crompton creates effervescent sculptures that ignite environmental awareness and personal reflection. The works delve into the world of organisms and creatures, taking the viewer on an otherworldly journey through nature. Despite any hint of melancholy, her works are also celebratory. They seem to float, weightless, oranges, scarlets and crimsons bursting from webs of shell and remind us of the sheer bounteous nature of this planet. But these environs she so clearly cherishes are under extreme peril. Despite the imperialistic shrugs of indifferent developers and conservatives, the world, under our own hand, is changing at a catastrophic rate. There is, accordingly, a degree of melancholy underscoring her work. Crompton's creatures, with their vibrissae protuberances, extended receptors, decorative flourishes and peering eyes created an entire tribe of fantastical entities. By utilising nature as a core of their practice she lights a flare of warning and ignites a fire of recognition of the natural world.
BIO
In 2016 Jenny won the Sculpture Trail Award and Peoples Choice Award at the Lorne Sculpture Biennale. She has exhibited at National Gallery of Victoria, Craft Victoria, MARS Gallery, Biennale of Australian Art and held work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Victoria.
Flared Plankton Copper, resin, feathers and paint 700 x 600 x 450 $4400
Plankton 120 x 600 x 150mm $4400
Moths Copper wire, resin and paint 500 x 300 x 100 mm $650 each, 3 available
Snakefly Copper wire, resin and paint 200 x 1100 x 150mm $1200
Spider 1500 x 1300 x x700mm Copper wire, resin and paint $3300
Medium Jelly Fish Copper wire, resin and paint 750 x 200 x 100mm $660
Shrimp Bloomtime prints Unique pigment print framed 73 x 58cm $770
Large Jelly Fish copper wire, resin and paint 800 x 300 x 200mm $1200
Octopus Bloomtime prints Unique pigment print framed 73 x 58cm $770
Large Crab Bloomtime prints Unique pigment print framed 73 x 58cm $770
Plankton Bloomtime prints Unique pigment print framed 73 x 58cm $770