Jan Hogan
Jan Hogan is a practicing artist and academic currently living and working in Tasmania. Her art practice is interwoven with daily life exploring concepts of belonging and dispossession. She works in situ in the environment, on sites allocated as a commons. At present it is Truganini Reserve on Mt Nelson in the suburb of Taroona. However, for many years it was Gundaroo Common in NSW and other sites have been Mirima National Park in the Kimberley, WA, Mutitjulu, in Central Australia and Casuarina Beach in Darwin. Her work is a dialogue with the land and its people, searching for a way that difference can occupy the same space. After living in many remote areas of Australia she became interested in conceptions of time, materiality and place and whether it is possible to have a cross-cultural dialogue through the Visual Arts. This is the core of her research, art practice and teaching.
ARTISTS STATEMENT
Truganini track is a fold in a mountain range, starting at a creek; it traverses a gully emerging at an old Signal Station. Ancient stories are embedded in the land, the geology revealing massive events and changes in climate, interweaved with colonial history and the everyday. On the track is a bounded realm, a canopy of trees and ferns enfolding the body, with the creek trickling by the side, and escarpments and overhangs to be negotiated. The breath of the previous day is often not yet released making a eucalyptus infused vapour cocoon around the track. Fresh animal tracks slide beneath the bushes and birds flutter just out view, detritus of floods are suspended in trees above my head, entangled with cobwebs and fresh leaf falls. I am working to articulate the presence of this track, its participation in this world rather than represent it as though we stand outside of and not really a part of this world. Paper acts as a membrane between events of the past and current events bringing forward possibilities for the future. Washed, ironed and folded I explore my feelings for this land in my cultural language of caring.
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ARTISTS STATEMENT
Truganini track is a fold in a mountain range, starting at a creek; it traverses a gully emerging at an old Signal Station. Ancient stories are embedded in the land, the geology revealing massive events and changes in climate, interweaved with colonial history and the everyday. On the track is a bounded realm, a canopy of trees and ferns enfolding the body, with the creek trickling by the side, and escarpments and overhangs to be negotiated. The breath of the previous day is often not yet released making a eucalyptus infused vapour cocoon around the track. Fresh animal tracks slide beneath the bushes and birds flutter just out view, detritus of floods are suspended in trees above my head, entangled with cobwebs and fresh leaf falls. I am working to articulate the presence of this track, its participation in this world rather than represent it as though we stand outside of and not really a part of this world. Paper acts as a membrane between events of the past and current events bringing forward possibilities for the future. Washed, ironed and folded I explore my feelings for this land in my cultural language of caring.
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Caring for Dolerite; cold wash/air dry/warm iron 2015
sumi ink & ochre on paper 80 x 120cm |
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Caring for Dolerite; sutured, hand wash only 2015
sumi ink & ochre on paper 80 x 120cm |
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Caring for Dolerite; permanently pressed 2015
sumi ink & ochre on paper 80 x 120cm |
Slippage 2013
sumi ink, ochres and charcoal on Rives BFK
107 x 150cm
sumi ink, ochres and charcoal on Rives BFK
107 x 150cm
Slippages I 2013
sumi ink, ochres and charcoal on Rives BFK 80 x 120cm |
Slippages II 2013
sumi ink, ochres and charcoal on Rives BFK 80 x 120cm |
Memory: Truganini Track, Mt Nelson 2014
eucalyptus ink, charcoal & ochre on Rives BFK
106cm x 18m
eucalyptus ink, charcoal & ochre on Rives BFK
106cm x 18m
The Common Line 2007 – 2009
eucalyptus ink, sumi ink, charcoal and Gundaroo dirt on Rives BFK
106 cm x 1800 cm
eucalyptus ink, sumi ink, charcoal and Gundaroo dirt on Rives BFK
106 cm x 1800 cm
The Common Line 2007 – 2009
eucalyptus ink, sumi ink, charcoal and Gundaroo dirt on Rives BFK
106 cm x 1800 cm
eucalyptus ink, sumi ink, charcoal and Gundaroo dirt on Rives BFK
106 cm x 1800 cm
Broken Line 2014
drawing installation, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m, (room dimensions)
drawing installation, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m, (room dimensions)
Broken Line 2014
drawing installation, wall detail, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m (room dimensions)
drawing installation, wall detail, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m (room dimensions)
Broken Line 2014
drawing installation, paper detail, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m (room dimensions)
drawing installation, paper detail, sumi ink & ochre on paper & walls
5.3 x 8m (room dimensions)
Gundaroo Traces and Erasures II 2010
ochre & Gundaroo dirt on paper
80 x 80 cm
ochre & Gundaroo dirt on paper
80 x 80 cm
Gundaroo Traces and Erasures III 2010
ochre & Gundaroo dirt on paper
80 x 80cm
ochre & Gundaroo dirt on paper
80 x 80cm
Stains on the Track 2014
eucalyptus ink, ochre & sumi ink mop drawing on Rives BFK, triptych
80 x 120cm each
eucalyptus ink, ochre & sumi ink mop drawing on Rives BFK, triptych
80 x 120cm each
Stains on the Track (detail) 2014
eucalyptus ink, ochre & sumi ink mop drawing on Rives BFK, triptych
80 x 120cm each
eucalyptus ink, ochre & sumi ink mop drawing on Rives BFK, triptych
80 x 120cm each
Becoming 2009
woodblock matrix on floor, Japanese woodblock with sumi ink & builders pigment on Kozo 448 x 732cm Canberra School of Art Gallery |
Becoming, Lines of Enquiry, Gundaroo Common, Book 1 2012
Artists Book, Japanese woodblock with Sumi ink & builders pigment on Kozo 66 x 94 x 10cm |
To Shadow 2011
Japanese woodblock prints with sumi ink & builders pigment on Kozo light with plywood woodblocks on floor
installation dimensions app. 4 x 8.5 x 4.5m
Japanese woodblock prints with sumi ink & builders pigment on Kozo light with plywood woodblocks on floor
installation dimensions app. 4 x 8.5 x 4.5m
Three Figures on the Base of a Mountain 2014
woodblock print on Japanese paper with plywood cutouts
200 x 120 x 20cm
woodblock print on Japanese paper with plywood cutouts
200 x 120 x 20cm
