Jacqui Driver is part of a group exhibition opening tomorrow evening at Studio 25B in Darlinghurst. Two of her children are also involved! There will be performances on the 19th December at 6pm.
Jacqui Driver at Studio25B
Prints from Studio One, 1987 – 1996 from Basil Hall’s Collection
Barbara Davidson, Jacqui Driver, Roslyn Kean and Gary Shinfield have prints in this show celebrating Studio One.
Basil Hall has offered to be at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre from 10.30 on the morning of 16th March to welcome any Sydney Printmakers who are in Canberra for the Opening of the Humble House show and would like to meet him and see the show.
PRINTS FROM STUDIO ONE, 1987 – 1996: FROM THE COLLECTION OF BASIL HALL
OFFICIAL OPENING: Friday 2 February, 6pm
EXHIBITION SHOWING: 2 February – 28 March
AFTERNOON TEA WITH BASIL: Saturday 24 February, 2-3pm
BOOKINGS: Click here to book for afternoon tea with Basil
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Studio One Printmaking Workshop was a dynamic access and editioning studio in Kingston. It was founded by Dianne Fogwell and Meg Buchanan in 1982 and operated until 2000 under a number of Directors, including Basil Hall, who ran the studio from 1987-1996. During this exciting period numerous Canberra printmakers honed their craft, many following degrees at Canberra School of Art, but many more learning etching, lithography and relief printing for the first time as access users and class members. Studio One’s facilities complemented those at Megalo, where silkscreen printing equipment was available for access use. In addition to classes, school holiday programs and weekend workshops, Studio One also offered an editioning services to artists Australia-wide.
This exhibition, drawn from Basil Hall’s boxes of Printer’s Proofs and mementoes, includes prints by Mandy Martin, Jorg Schmeisser, Paul Peisley, George Gittoes, Raymond Arnold, Garry Shead, Pamela Challis, Bob Russell, GW Bot, Chris Denton, Dianne Fogwell, Julie Bradley, Sylvia and Tony Convey and many, many more!
Introducing a new member: Jacqui Driver
Let’s welcome Jacqui Driver, our newest member of Sydney Printmakers, well known as a teacher, and for her large scale lithographs.
Here is how she describes her work:
Being a mother is complicated, 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 thecomplexity of my thickets. I see the corporeal pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis interconnected with the psychologicalwounding of transgenerational trauma as all encompassing, therefore I use installation to encompass my audience, surrounding them 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 toexpress pain.
My work often involves collaboration with other artists who also deal with transgenerational trauma or mental health issues. I have collaborated previously with a dance-based performance artist, Lorcan Power, a sound artist, Dylan Marelić-Mcintyre and cinematographer, Darwin Schulz,resulting in the production of short films. The projected films add an extra element into my installations and broaden an audience experience of mothering interwoven with childhoodtrauma.
Overall, my work has a powerful presence which reveals the hidden complexity of mothering while challenging the cultural silence of living with the effects of transgenerational trauma.
Here is a link to an interview which Jacqui gave to More Than Reproduction in 2021. It explains more about her process.