Jennifer Mathews (2023)

Jennifer Mathews works across metalwork and assemblage to create freestanding and relief sculptures. Utilising architectural motifs and materials, her work focuses on the tension between the industrial built environment and stylised depictions of nature to form new symbolic arrangements.

Mathews was selected to participate in the 2023 Studio Program.

'The space at ACE gives me so much time and space to reflect more deeply on my work. I’m able to use the space to plan, to draw, to read and to really delve into the ideas I'm working with.' Jennifer Mathews, 2023.

Mathews received First Class Honours in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, where she was awarded the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. Recent exhibitions include The sun ceases to give without receiving, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne; Extreme Mating of a Pugnacious Dreamer, TCB Art Inc., Melbourne; donut king (paintings about love), Suite 7A, Sydney; and System Blower, MILK Gallery, Melbourne (all 2022).

Jennifer Mathews
  • Installation view of 'Waiting to get cooked'. 'Waiting to get cooked' is a body of 3 sculptures: Austerity meal (rice on a needle with beetroot) is an aluminium octagon featuring a vinyl print at its centre; a grouping of 3 stainless steel chairs perched atop of a grid installation of an office-like ceiling and Starch Cross features a diamond shaped vinyl print of a sweet potato imposed over an image of a gravel footpath in a forest.
  • Close up of Jennifer's work - the back of 2 metal chairs with resin cast fried eggs in the centre of each. The opening night audience gather around and are blurred in the background.
  • A round-shaped octagonal artwork featuring a mandarine and a chrome frame that incorporates a star.
  • Jennifer Mathews, Egg and hammer cabinet (2023), Installation View.
  • A large object sits in the centre of a dimply lit exhibition space. The object features a sunset motif surrounded by a cave-like situation.
Installation view of 'Waiting to get cooked'. 'Waiting to get cooked' is a body of 3 sculptures: Austerity meal (rice on a needle with beetroot) is an aluminium octagon featuring a vinyl print at its centre; a grouping of 3 stainless steel chairs perched atop of a grid installation of an office-like ceiling and Starch Cross features a diamond shaped vinyl print of a sweet potato imposed over an image of a gravel footpath in a forest.
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Studios: 2023 (2023), installation view, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Sam Roberts.

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ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.