HONEY
Jude Broughan
Friday 20 February – Friday 10 April 2015
Opening: 5:30pm Thursday 19 February 2015
Calder & Lawson Gallery, Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato
Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
In Jude Broughan’s mixed-media works, ideas of photography, printmaking, painting, and collage collide. Broughan, who was born in Hamilton and now lives in New York, combines found and original images with natural and synthetic materials—leather, colored paper, translucent vinyl—stitching, gluing, taping, and stapling them together to emphasize and contrast their diverse formal properties and cultural or personal associations.
Broughan’s deceptively unfussy arrangements, which demonstrate their maker’s sensitivity to object-hood and proportion, also reflect her fascination with themes of fallibility and imperfection, naturalness and artifice, nourishment and growth. Images of plants, food, and the built environment find their way into compositions that feel intimate while offering a subtle critique of the commercially manufactured visual environment.
Broughan began her studies at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and an MFA from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Stock
2014
Archival inkjet print on scrim vinyl, polyester, large format positive film transparencies, stretchers, gesso, thread
914mm x 1524mm
Stage
2014
Archival inkjet print on paper, polyester, gel medium, vinyl, white lacquer frame, thread
554mm x 554mm
Upper Side
2014
Photograph, leather, thread
241mm x 165mm