Jamie north

Embedded within the eroded cement and marble pillars of artist Jamie North are a host of plants native to Australia. Kangaroo vines, Port Jackson figs, and kidney weeds wrap themselves around steel cables and grow from the crevices of the cracked stone forms, juxtaposing the industrial, human-made sculptures with organic elements. The lush greenery infusesContinue reading "Australian Plants Grow from the Crevices of Jamie North’s Living Sculptures"

Jamie North - Slidings

Jaehyo Lee, Arte Sella, International Meetings Art Nature, Trentino, Italy, 2015 http://www.leeart.name/ http://www.artesella.it/

Rock Melt 2015 was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria International and is a sculptural installation consisting of six columns comprised mostly of concrete, steel and steel slag. The columns respond to the architecture of the space they inhabit, and house a collection of native Australian plant species that recall the former use of the site as an open-aired sculpture garden. Rock Melt has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria and is to be reinstalled in an outdoor…

Anselm Kiefer: “The Women of the Revolution (Die Frauen der Revolution)” (1992/2013), lead beds: dimensions variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer

The Path of Least Resistance was a sculptural installation and photographic series created for exhibition at MOP Projects, Sydney in November 2009.

This sculptural work was exhibited in "In Great Trouble" at Bondi Pavillion, November 2011. The exhibition was concerned with the traumatic Australian landscape.

Solo show at Sarah Cottier Gallery, comprised of multiple forms with cement, marble waste, limestone, steel slag and coal ash as sculptural materials, and inhabited by a complex mix of plant species native to the east coast of Australia. This exhibition also featured two hand printed silver gelatin photographs, depicting the now non-existant mounds from which the steel slag was obtained.

Succession was created for the 20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is Already Here - It's Just Not Evenly Distributed. It consists of two fragmented columns inhabited by a selection of Australian plant species that continued to grow over the course of the…

Terraforms, Jamie North