Jennie Nayton

Jennie Nayton originally studied photography at Mt Lawley TAFE and held her first solo exhibition in 1995 at The Photography Gallery of Western Australia.

originally studied photography at Mt Lawley TAFE and held her first solo exhibition in 1995 at The Photography Gallery of Western Australia. She then went on to study sculpture at Claremont School of Art before gaining a Bachelor of Arts (honours) at Curtin University in 2003.

Over the past 20 years she has regularly exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and has developed her art practice to encompass a wide range of mediums. Jennie’s work is included in a large number of state and national collections including Artbank, the State Library of Queensland and Parliament House in Canberra.

Since 2010 Jennie has worked predominantly in the area of public art and has won eighteen major public artwork commissions in various locations across the Western Australia. Her work combined elements of photography, drawing and sculpture together in a multidisciplinary practice.

FEATURED WORK

2020

Light & shade – study 1 uses contrasting wood tones and cut-outs combined with faceted angles. The sculpture is a dynamic study of optical figure
field relationships that plays with the viewer’s perceptions. As a viewer moves around the
artwork the relationships between the four sections change in unexpected ways creating an
illusion of movement. Nayton’s art practice is an ongoing investigation into the cognitive processes of perception, experience, memory and
understanding. She is fascinated by the idea that reality can only be known through the subjective
experience of the exterior environment, through
an individual’s senses.