Artist Biography
Jemima Wyman was born in Sydney in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brisbane, Queensland. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology with first-class honours in 2001. In 2005 Wyman was a recipient of the prestigious Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, enabling her to study for her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005; Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2005; Catastrophe Theory: Earthquake Girl and Other Stories, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane, 2005; Jemima Wyman: Selected Works, Photo New York, 2004; Open Call, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2004; and Minnie Peep, 18th Street Arts Centre, Los Angeles, 2004. She is represented by Bellas Milani Gallery in Brisbane and Brown Bag Contemporary in San Francisco.
Works
Catastrophe theory: Earthquake Girl and other stories 2005
Artist Statement
Catastrophe theory: Earthquake Girl and other stories is a body of work that is based on a speculative philosophy of science (Catastrophe Theory); investigations into issues relating to mechanisms of fiction and reality (related to Hollywood and the history of story-telling within Australian culture); ruptures within the landscape as equated with the female body; and the experience of landscape as engendered; and 'many journeys' between Brisbane, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States of America.
Jemima Wyman acknowledges the assistance of the Samstag Program, University of South Australia.
