Jenny Rix
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Across differing forms and mediums, Jenny Rix’s art practice has always relied on her eye for line, shadow, and composition. In her photographic images, and more recent Botanical Sculptures, remnants from the natural world are used to create works that are not only visually arresting but that also give a new purpose to palm and jacaranda boughs, pods, and fronds. Her sculptures offer them a new opportunity to display their innate beauty.
The design process for Jenny’s intricate sculptures begins with the gleaned materials themselves.
‘It is usually the pieces themselves,’ she says, ‘that suggest the form that will best bring them to life. I see it as a collaboration between artist and materials.’
Once the selected form is sketched in detail, then follows a painstaking construction stage using fine copper jewellers’ wire to bring together the many elements into a final piece for display. The completed sculptures are designed to hang proud of the wall, so that the work encompasses not only the physical form, but also the resulting shadows. These add the illusion of movement, a dancing elegance, and a sense that the more the viewer looks, the more they see.
Over two decades Jenny has held solo and group exhibitions in Australia and France. Works from her Pools: No Diving series, commissioned by the National Trust of Australia, hang in institutional and individual collections. For two years post-Covid, she was a resident artist at Art Gallery on Palm Beach before joining the team at Art Gallery on Darling.