Biography
Jacqui Driver is a Sydney based artist living and working on Gadigal land. Driver primarily works with lithography and installation. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for many years and her work is held by The National Gallery of Australia as well as numerous other public and private collections. Jacqui has been a lecturer in printmaking at UNSW Art and Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture since 2004, teaching printmaking at ACU since 2012 and teaches in the National Art School delivering the Open Art lithography intensives. For many years she has worked as a lithographic printer for artists in Australia, New Zealand and in Ireland.
Driver’s work explores the complicity of motherhood. The idea of mothering may extend from the romantic notions of unquestioning love through to the difficulties of ambivalence and the trauma of dealing with mental health issues, all concepts reflected in the complexity of her thickets. Driver sees the corporeal pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis as interconnected with the psychological wounding of transgenerational trauma; she feels both are all encompassing. Her installations surround her audiences with images of entanglement and the folds and flows of silk drapes. Providing a means to metaphorically hug or be hugged and nurturing a safer space in which to express pain.