Jackson McLaren

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

What are the possibilities of abstraction through painting and textiles? I explore formal concerns of colour, space and surface to materially encode language. 

My labour-intensive weaving process informs my painting, using the grid found in the substrate of the hessian material used to weave into as a scaffolding to build the work. The days are collected through colour in a cumulative scroll-like document of passing time. Through repetitive mark-making, this mechanical process is translated through paint, the fallibility of the hand and the meditative rhythm of interior logic banding together to produce work akin to music and atmosphere.  

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Recipient

Majlis Art Award

Jackson McLaren, Installation view of End of the Day Blue 1-5 and End of the Day Blue (one kilometre), Acrylic on hessian, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Jackson McLaren, End of the Day Blue (one kilometre), Acrylic on hessian, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Jackson McLaren, Installation view of Extended Weaving Project and Music For Helicopter Pilots, Majlis Travelling Scholarship, Wool, hessian, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 2021. Documentation by Christo Crocker.

Alexander Eather

Caesar Florence-Howard

Caitlin Aloisio Shearer

Eleanor Newbound

Emily Arenas Zarate

Evangela Lines-Morison

Hakira Coleman-Wilson

Jackson McLaren

Rebecca Suares-Jury

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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