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New Ways
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Gallery: Gallery One + Window Boxes
Artists involved:
Jenny Fraser
Jason Davidson
First, a leader is a path maker ˆ one who carves a new path, finds or designs new ways, and moves in a new direction. A leader is one who invents a new solution to an old problem, or invents a new solution to a new problem. A leader might even invent a new problem, with or without a new solution to match. The leader can be anybody who chooses to lead. However, when you lead, you are exercising your right to accept or demand the authority needed to act. A leader cannot lead without first having or taking the authority?
The fact that someone was a leader, or had successfully carved a new path, does not make that person a leader forever. No matter what people did in the past, they cannot be called leaders today unless they are in fact leading today.
Jonar C Nader 2002
Jenny Fraser
Jenny Fraser works at the nexus of art, filmaking and new technologies. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, including 'ISEA 06' in San Jose and Interactiva01 and Interactive03: Biennales at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico.
Because of the diverse creative mediums Jenny uses, much of her work defies categorisation. More recently her work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial.
Her practice is also partly defined through a strong commitment to collaboration with others, which in turn leads to involvement in a new wave of exciting artists networks, such as the Blackout New Media Arts Collective: a national body of artists / film-makers / designers.
Jenny has travelled extensively and completed artist-in-residence programs from remote communities in the Northern Territory to the Rocky Mountains in Banff and Raw Space in Brisbane.
Jason Davidson
Jason Davidson a Gurindji/Mara/Nalakarn artist, based in Darwin, has a background in music and design. He studied Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. His current practice involves producing works including elements of animation, video, music and his unique ‘X-Ray’ art style - hand drawn designs of animals and body organs. Recently he has brought these issues to light again with the launch of a new website Aboriginal Imagination. Featuring the arts, health and copyright, it is also intended as a safe haven for family members and other artists to promote their artwork in an Aboriginal controlled environment free of other cultural gate-keepers.
Artists involved:
Jenny Fraser
Jason Davidson
First, a leader is a path maker ˆ one who carves a new path, finds or designs new ways, and moves in a new direction. A leader is one who invents a new solution to an old problem, or invents a new solution to a new problem. A leader might even invent a new problem, with or without a new solution to match. The leader can be anybody who chooses to lead. However, when you lead, you are exercising your right to accept or demand the authority needed to act. A leader cannot lead without first having or taking the authority?
The fact that someone was a leader, or had successfully carved a new path, does not make that person a leader forever. No matter what people did in the past, they cannot be called leaders today unless they are in fact leading today.
Jonar C Nader 2002
Jenny Fraser
Jenny Fraser works at the nexus of art, filmaking and new technologies. Her work is exhibited both nationally and internationally, including 'ISEA 06' in San Jose and Interactiva01 and Interactive03: Biennales at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico.
Because of the diverse creative mediums Jenny uses, much of her work defies categorisation. More recently her work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial.
Her practice is also partly defined through a strong commitment to collaboration with others, which in turn leads to involvement in a new wave of exciting artists networks, such as the Blackout New Media Arts Collective: a national body of artists / film-makers / designers.
Jenny has travelled extensively and completed artist-in-residence programs from remote communities in the Northern Territory to the Rocky Mountains in Banff and Raw Space in Brisbane.
Jason Davidson
Jason Davidson a Gurindji/Mara/Nalakarn artist, based in Darwin, has a background in music and design. He studied Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. His current practice involves producing works including elements of animation, video, music and his unique ‘X-Ray’ art style - hand drawn designs of animals and body organs. Recently he has brought these issues to light again with the launch of a new website Aboriginal Imagination. Featuring the arts, health and copyright, it is also intended as a safe haven for family members and other artists to promote their artwork in an Aboriginal controlled environment free of other cultural gate-keepers.