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Jane Pollard

Sydney based, self taught jeweller Jane Pollard has been creating wearable objects from found and collected materials for the past 15 years. Pollard is fascinated by the nostalgia and passion held by vintage haberdashery, buttons and buckles and adds to the objects stories and lifespans by transforming them into contemporary jewellery.

The forms made are inspired by the objects Pollard finds and receives, and are underpinned by her commitment to utilise recycled materials. As her collection grows so does her appreciation of the individual objects, each piece drawing on the inherent qualities of the component objects – their colours, shapes and patterns – to create unique wearable pieces.

Pollard’s earlier works were inspired by her experiences with string spun from the plant fibre Agave; a skill she learnt while teaching in an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. Jane has revisited this string making technique for pollinate, her first solo exhibition. pollinate reinforces the collector and hoarder within Pollard as she beautifully brings together objects, ideas, styles and materials to create a plastic landscape. All flower shaped, the pieces are built using an array of materials including hand cut, melted polypropylene with hand spun string, buttons, buckles, silver, found objects and beading.

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Pennie Jagiello

Jagiello celebrates the beauty and fragility of the ocean in her first solo Sydney exhibition Coral Wreath. The work replicates her own intimate interpretation of the beauty within the sea, alongside that which is destroying it.

Twisted recycled plastics replicate the products that are destroying our oceans, while also emulating the fragility of sea life and the changes associated with the increase of human impact.

The pieces also reference Pacific art and adornment, emulating materials and techniques a speaking of the impact of global warming on coastal communities and the effect the environmental changes will have on the future of coastal towns

Recycled materials are an intrinsic component in Jagiello’s work, materials are not so much sourced, but chanced upon, influencing and moulding the piece to be made. Discarded plastics can live in the marine environment for up to 600 years and so sings a significant song in this body of work. Previously Jagiello has also utilized telephone cables to communicate the need for urgent awareness of the extreme danger our beautiful oceans are in and how we are rapidly destroying them.

Running until September24

During May, Broadway was pleased to present Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, collaborative visual artists who work with live art, film and video.

Forsyth & Pollard are British artists perhaps best known for creating re-enactments of cultural and art-historical events. Recently they have worked on a series of film and music video projects with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and are currently showing a new 3D video installation at BFI Southbank Gallery in London. This selection of works has been chosen specifically for the spaces at Broadway and focusses on Forsyth & Pollard’s more recent video work including two projects referencing work by seminal American video artist Bruce Nauman and a series of works talking to music fans about love, loss and mixtapes.

Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it
Friday 15^th May, 1pm, Screen 1

For Broadway, Iain and Jane along with Matt Davenport have compiled a series of short films from artists including Gilbert & George, Mark Wallinger and John Smith interjected with the artists own Séance pieces filmed on set with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as viral marketing clips for the latest

Radiomania: An Abandoned Work_ BFI Southbank

Digital Broadway recentl went to visit the gallery at BFI Southbank which has gone 3D with a new video installation by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.Premiered at the same time as the show at Broadway, this exhibition is the first opf its kind where the 3-D and ambisonic sound technologies have been used together.

Taking as its starting point 1922 3D film The Man from M.A.R.S., Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work is part film, part rehearsal, captured using contemporary 3D video and audio technologies. The artists have set about creating a contemporary adaptation of this silent film, transporting the viewer into the centre of a rehearsal capturing the actors, artists and musicians at work.

Radio Mania: An Abandoned Work runs until 11 July.

Click here to read Fay Nicolson & Matt Davenport in conversation with Iain & Jane who took time out of their hectic schedule at their film screening at Broadway.(courtesy of Nottinghamvisualarts.net)

You can find out about Iain and Jane’s forthcoming projects here: www.iainandjane.com

Anna Davern

Richard Burns, Anna Davern, Amanda Fox, Lisa Furno, Stephen Gallagher, Pennie Jagiello, Elfrun Lach, Jane Pollard and Mel Young

at Pablo Fanque

November 4 – 24, 2008

Recycled, renewed, reborn is a group exhibition of wonderful works by Australian artisans with a penchant for ethical creations. Using recycled materials and making ethical creations does not mean that design and beauty are forsaken.

Melinda Young, Smoke Neckpiece, 2008, Polyester Sewing Thread, Smoky Quartz, Oxidised 925 Silver

Melinda Young, Blood Neckpiece, 2008, Polyester Sewing Thread, Dyed Quartz, Oxidised 925 Silver

Recycled, reused and renewed looks at artworks in their own right; they just happen to be made from loved or reinvented materials. I have been increasingly captivated with the innovative use of recycled resources in jewellery and object making, and while I appreciate the growing relevance and need to explore the possibilities of working with existing materials, this factor can sometimes overshadow the artworks created.

Pablo Fanque

Iain and Jane son dos artistas londinenses contemporáneos que se dedican a la recreación de eventos y escenas culturales y artísticas de la historia, la recolección de emociones y recuerdos y su adaptación a la realidad contemporánea, cuidando siempre el detalle y centrándose en el aspecto psicológico como manera de transmitir emociones e influir sobre la percepción de las imágenes, es lo que les convierte en innovadores. Se conocieron en la universidad de Goldsmith de la que se graduaron en 1995 y desde entonces siguen trabajando juntos. Son muy conocidos en los círculos artísticos tanto londinenses como estadounidenses.

Uno de sus últimos trabajos es el video de Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds : ¨Dig, Lazarus, Dig!¨ (Cava, Lázaro, cava!)de su último decimocuarto álbum que lleva el mismo nombre.

En este video se percibe un ambiente muy parecido a la época de Houdini, y también se ve a un Nick Cave vestido de la moda de entonces. La concepción visual de este proyecto tiene que ver con la visión que Cave tuvo sobre el mito de Lázaro (que le aterrorizaba de pequeño, le preocupaba ¨cómo se sentía Lázaro¨ al levantarse de la tumba)  y que posteriormente relacionó con las  creencias y las actividades de Houdini, el escapista más grande de la historia, el que estaba convencido que no hay nada después de la muerte y quien dedicó gran parte de su vida luchando contra los espiritualistas. Cave explica que en esta canción ha tomado el personaje de Lázaro y le ha metido en Nueva York, para dar a la canción un matiz contemporáneo.

Esta misma línea conceptual utilizaron Iain y Jane para la realización de una serie de 10 vídeos cortos, en los que se pueden ver a Nick Cave y The Bad Seeds burlándose de los espiritualistas, que lanzaron en YouTube para promocionar ¨Dig, Lazarus, Dig!¨.

Otros proyectos de Iain y Jane son Make me your again, Kiss my Nauman, Silent Sound, Walk with Nauman, Walk after Acconci y  A Rock´n´Roll Suicide en el que recrearon la última interpretación de David Bowie como Ziggy Stardust en 1973, entre otros.

Más información sobre Iain y Jane podéis encontrar en su página web: http://www.iainandjane.com, donde también podéis ver extractos de sus cortometrajes y proyectos, leer artículos críticos de prensa y entrevistas con ellos, así como hundirse en la colección de ensayos.

Great to see artists, friends, and fellow New Crossers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard land the directorship of Nick Cave’s new video “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!” (Well done you cats! And what a great video!)

Iain and Jane are always up to random stuff being the artists that they are. You can check out more about them on their area of the interweb at www.iainandjane.com