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    Primer:

    Jennifer Douglas

    • Photo taken in 2018

      Photo taken in 2018

       

    • Photo taken in 2019

      Photo taken in 2019

    • Photo taken in 2021 Jennifer Douglas Entropic Paradise, 2018 Silver leaf, industrial floor paint on linen, punctured and scratched 150 x 120 cm 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in (JD0200) £8,000

      Photo taken in 2021

       

       

      Jennifer Douglas
      Entropic Paradise, 2018
      Silver leaf, industrial floor paint on linen, punctured and scratched
      150 x 120 cm
      59 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
      (JD0200)

       

      £8,000

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    When Entropic Paradise (2018) was first made it would have appeared very obviously made from silver. After just a few months, the silver leaf applied to the painted canvas changed colour, acquiring hues of pastel pink and creating a stark contrast to the painted layer beneath. With the passage of time and fluctuation in climates, the metal surface continues to transform unpredictably the appearance of the work.

     

    Shifting colours from silver to pink, and now to gold, Entropic Paradise, is an example of Douglas's interest in the possibilities of materials and the performative qualities that these confer to her work.

     

    "I think there is something more intriguing about a material that is declining, that is somewhat out of control"

     

    - Jennifer Douglas

     

     

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    • The silver leaf comes in packs of small square pieces. When the sheets are first opened they are bright silver and possess the luminous quality one would expect from this metal.

      The silver leaf comes in packs of small square pieces. When the sheets are first opened they are bright silver and possess the luminous quality one would expect from this metal. 

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    • For Douglas the exploration of material through touch is essential to the process of making: it determines the outcome as the finished work captures the subtle movements, gestures and actions of the artist's hand.

      For Douglas the exploration of material through touch is essential to the process of making: it determines the outcome as the finished work captures the subtle movements, gestures and actions of the artist's hand. 

       

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    • The final stage in the artist's creative process is to scratch and pierce the canvas with throwaway utensils such as pens, craft knives and screwdrivers. Through these actions Douglas is breaking the rhythm of the monochromatic surface and creating tension between the precious nature of the silver and the destructive nature of these gestures. Image: detail of Jennifer Douglas, Entropic Cosmos (Silver I), 2019

      The final stage in the artist's creative process is to scratch and pierce the canvas with throwaway utensils such as pens, craft knives and screwdrivers. Through these actions Douglas is breaking the rhythm of the monochromatic surface and creating tension between the precious nature of the silver and the destructive nature of these gestures. 

       


       

      Image: detail of Jennifer Douglas, Entropic Cosmos (Silver I), 2019

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    "One specific language which abounds in Douglas's polyglottic practice is the language of materials. Materials do not communicate simply on the literal, cerebral level of written or spoken language but physically through a syntax of forms, properties and processes"

     

    - Iris Priest, 2014 

  • Detail of Jennifer Douglas, A Tacit Understanding (Slate), 2017, Carbon paper pigment, floor paint on linen, 240 x 180 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Detail of Jennifer Douglas, Platino Paradise, 2018, Platinum leaf, graphite, industrial paint on canvas, punctured and scratched, 150 x 120 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Detail of Jennifer Douglas, Golden Entropy, 2018, Gold leaf, industrial paint on canvas, punctured, slashed and scratched, 150 x 120 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Detail of Jennifer Douglas, A Tacit Understanding (Slate), 2017, Carbon paper pigment, floor paint on linen, 240 x 180 cm

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    "Douglas's large canvases painted flatly with industrial floor paint, in fact function less as paintings and more as sites of private sculptural performances.  She inverts the promise and aspiration of perfection – her works are blemish-full rather than blemish free – by inflicting various physical actions on them. She jabs, scratches, rubs, drags, and punctures."

     

    - Lizzie Lloyd, 2017  

  • Jennifer Douglas was born in 1975 in Amersham, UK and she currently lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She studied...

     

    Jennifer Douglas was born in 1975 in Amersham, UK and she currently lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and completed her MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2005. Exhibitions include Crab Walk, NGCA, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK; Confusion in her eyes that says it all, Maria Stenfors, London, UK; Tip of the Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK; From Acanthus to Zebrawood Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, UK; Beijing/Glasgow, Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Exit Strategy, Tramway, Glasgow, UK; The Games we Play, Barcsay Sala, Budapest; VANE Export, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; You Shall Know Our Velocity, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Her work is represented in collections such as The Government Art Collection UK; Tyne and Wear Museums Collection, UK. Simmons and Simmons, UK.

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