Artist Statement // The landscape depicted is a place revered and valued for its natural wonder, with mangroves nestled within the heart of a popular tourist spot and close-by to a major industrial power plant. Recently deemed a ‘conservation zone’, traces of industry litter the shallows whilst the trees ‘breathe’, using their roots as lungs to filter through trash and aerate the estuary - slowly but surely replenishing the grove that had likely flourished there, abundant, for thousands of years. I believe that healing and re-naturing can happen. Endangered species can be saved. All humans can live well and in harmony - if only we put our collective minds to it: with the way forward drawing from the path already well-taken…

“From an Aboriginal perspective, everything that exists – the planet, the flora, the fauna and the people – are one connected organism. If something or someone suffers, then all of us are affected – true wellbeing cannot be achieved if all things aren’t well. We are all in this together… We need to flow like water – to reach our destination by calmly winding and meandering in synchronicity with what is around us.” – from ‘The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life’, by Paul Callahan, with Uncle Paul Gordon.

Jenn Brazier is a photomedia artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. Her work has been presented across the country, and has been a finalist in several awards including the Heysen Prize for Landscape, the Ilford National Photographic Prize and the Prospect Portrait Prize. Brazier often utilises long exposure and unconventional lighting techniques in an attempt to gain surreality from subjects and their surroundings to delve into states of mind. She has recently begun to incorporate installation elements to her work in an attempt to add a tangibility, bringing the unreal together with the real.

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Lilla Berry writes about Jenn Brazier in Neoterica 2024.

Jenn Brazier, Reverence, 2024, Giclée print on fine art paper, velvet & recycledpolyester, powder-coated zinc alloy. Print: 250 x 83.33 cm,installation dimensions variable. Sam Roberts Photography.