Jayanto Damanik Tan Art: Works

2020

Cabinet of Curiosities - Happy Days

Ceramic Installation for celebrate Mardi Gras in Inner West Ashfield

Ashfield Civic Center - Ashfield Town Hall

19th Feb - 31st March

A Little Ceng Beng (Felix Gonzalez-Torres)

Ceramic, joss paper, moon blocks, embroidery on bed sheet

Knox Street Window Gallery

27th Feb - 20th March
https://www.knoxstwindow.com
Shuangxi (a Chinese wedding symbol for double happiness and everlasting love) hangs above two rainbow cakes, one adorned with lotus roots. Two red moon blocks symbolising good luck, sit atop the joss papers. Love is love is love…Do not forget that the fight for LGBTIQ rights and married equality in the Asia Pacific continues. From Malaysia to Indonesia to China, there is work to be done to ensure it is known that LGBT right are humans rights.

Group Show: Rainbow Visionaries 2020

The Imlek - Hociak

Ceramic

Kerrie Lowe Gallery

Paper Lantern Workshop with Reserve Garage

2019

Group Show: Summer Sojourn - Art Atrium Gallery

Ritual Harvest

Porcelain, circular 90cm

30th Nov - 14 Dec 2019

For me this work is about creating a home, both as a physical space as well as a cultural space within Australia. By gathering these varied ceramic objects, I aim to create a space that acknowledges the viewpoint of otherness. By looking closer at what is inside, beneath and between things that reveal hidden aspect of cultural identity to create emotional intensity and generate the potential for multiculturalism.

https://artatrium.com.au

Finalist: Blacktown City Art Prize - Ritual Tortoise Cakes

Ceramic Installation, 3x70x80cm

As a child, Jayanto would sit and watch his beautiful Peranakan mother delicately made the red tortoise cake. These cakes significant for celebrate the Lunar New Year and announced piece and good luck. In Ritual Tortoise Cakes, Jayanto recreates these into colourful ceramic cakes to express personal experiences of 'otherness'.
https://blacktownarts.com.au

MFA Exhibition - National Art School
7 - 17 November 2019

Finalist: Urban EDGE Art Prize - The Moon, the Frog and the Lost Chicken in the Big City

Mixed media collage, 20x20cm

https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/opportunities-for-artists/urban-edge-contemporary-art-prize

Caterer Jajan Pasar and tea for Leyla Steven's Closing Exhibition
Their Sea is Always Hungry, UTS Art
Saturday, 2 Nov 2019
https://art.uts.edu.au

Finalist: 10th Greenaway Art Prize - An Offering for the Cooks River

Ceramic, underglaze and glazed

31 October - 19 November 2019

23x28x28cm

In my work, I acknowledge the impact of cross-cultural ideas on our individual world concepts. Through sharing my culture and ritual, in this work I aim to focus the timeless wisdom of meditation towards the Australian landscape – seeking to capture the quiet, meditative qualities of grace and balance evident in our natural environment. The act of creating this sculpture has been one of respectful humbling before nature, combined with the wish of new awareness of the healing and nurturing our urban environment deserves.

https://www.greenwayartprize.com.au/copy-of-2018-prize

Ritual Looking for the Enlightenment - Monash University Melbourne
Paper Lantern Installation, workshop

30th Sept - 4th Oct 2019

https://www.monash.edu/mpavilion/whats-on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8GynpcRhw
https://ozip.com.au/index.php/catatan-dari-chinese-conference-2019-bukan-sekadar-masalah-rasial-dan-nasionalisme/

Paper Lantern Workshop

Ritual Red Chandeliers

Red cotton wool

The Warringah Aquatic Centre outdoor garden

https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/whats-on/3d-poolside-contemporary-sculpture-exhibition

Moon Garden - EDGE Asfhield Activations
Bunting Light Installation, performance Jajan Pasar
7 - 15 September 2019
https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/edge/edge-ashfield-13-to-15-september
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cv9y-Z4HAc&feature=youtu.be

Ritual Jajan Pasar Performance
I created a Jajan Pasar performance inspired by my mother selling street food in Indonesia.

Group Show

Suburban XTRA - The Beareded Tit

Performance, video, mural
27th August - 19 Oct 2019
http://thebeardedtit.com/art-1

Solo Show: Ritual Everywhere But Nowhere

Firstdraft Gallery

Interactive Performance Installation

5th June - 28th June 2019

Performance with Australia Indonesia Youth Association, Indonesian Welfare Association, Tony Twigg and Mayu Kanamori

https://firstdraft.org.au

https://www.artlink.com.au/issues/3940/food-bowl/

Photos by Stine Baska

Public Art Installation Newtown ArtSeat

Ritual Looking for the Enlightenment

Photograph

5th June - 6th August 2019

https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/opportunities-for-artists/newtown-art-seat

Photo by MyinnerWest

The Peranakan Project - Peranakan Ritual Gathering
Collaboration performance interactive installation

The Peranakan Project is an interactive performance installation, focusing on the themes of remembrance and holding on to the disappearing histories of our Peranakan culture within today’s Australian landscape. Through art installation and performance, visual artists will create points of connection between the past and present cultures of Southern and South East Asia, exploring a sense of belonging.
https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/edge
Photos by Stine Baska

Finalist: Sculptures @ Bayside Acquisition Prize 2019

Ritual Togetherness

Incense Sticks, red thread

6 - 30 April 2019

Responding to the theme of the natural and cultural environment of the Cooks River, I would like to create a site-specific installation reflecting the diversity within the Bayside Council Residents. As a Peranakan immigrant living in Sydney, I would like to introduce my mixed Asian culture and rituals to my new homeland through colours and storytelling. By blending local history with relevant stories connected with cultural environment, I hope to bring ordinary object into today’s contemporary world. https://www.bayside.nsw.gov.au/area/whats/bayside-arts-festival

https://www.bayside.nsw.gov.au/area/whats/bayside-arts-festival/sculptures-bayside-2019-catalogue

Finalist: Art on The GreenAway 2019
Ritual Tea Tree
Found discarded glass jars, photographs, red thread
28 March - 7 April 2019
I created this colourful interactive installation set in a historical Greenway of the Lilyfield present a narrative that offers enlightenment to individuals on their own terms. Hopefully to open up richer communication with community about the past history connects with the found objects and the environmental. Ritual Tea Tree represents the delicate state of the environment and the starting points of life. The purpose of the installation is to look outside the box and challenge the diversity of our contemporary world.
https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/edge

Finalist: North Sydney Art Prize 2019
Ritual Gathering
Incense sticks, red string
2 - 17 March 2019

My installation offers a sentiment of mixed spirituality and sharing, demonstrating diverse cultures and bringing the timeless wisdom of meditation to open-minded westerners. This is my mantra of rosary beads counted up and down through small fingers over the uneven surface of repeated words, like a prayer to the universe.
https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/Home
https://gramha.net/media/1997081850368351150

Ritual Lantern Workshop at Coal Loader North Sydney
https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/Creative_Workshop_-_Ritual_Lantern_Making

Mardi Gras Group Exhibition 2019 - Rainbow Cakes
Ceramic glazed
Kerry Lowe Gallery
15 February - 5 March 2019
http://kerrielowe.com

Slot a Window Gallery - Warung Peranakan Waginem

Found object, red string, performance

10 - 28 February 2019

http://slotlog.blogspot.com

Photographs by Tony Twigg

High Tea Performance: Warung Peranakan Waginem - SLOT a Window Gallery

Paper Lantern Workshop Lunar New Year Festival 2019

Kensington Street, Chippendale

9th February 2019

2018

Paper Lantern Workshops

Mittelschule am Aschberg in Weisingen, Bavaria, Germany

09th - 11th Oct 2018

Funded by School of Aschberg

09th October 2018

10th October 2018

11th October 2018

http://www.aschbergschule.de/

The Drawing Exchange 2018

National Art School and Adelaide Central School of Art

Rayne Hoff Project Space National Art School and around campus

17 September - 12 October 2018

Jayanto is working with these instructions from Adelaide Central School of Art student Vanessa Gracie. He writes that, “Ritual Wedding is both in memory of my beautiful mother and my own healing through collecting the used tea bags from many cups of tea in order to explore cross culture idea between East and West mythologies.”

http://nasdrawing.com.au/the-drawing-exchange-2018/

Ritual Wedding, installation, 2018

Used teabags, video, photograph

https://drawingexchange.wordpress.com

COLLABORATIVE DUOS:

Damian Dillon (Sydney) and Louise Haselton (Adelaide), Toni Warburton (Sydney) and Bernadette Klavins (Adelaide), Marian Tubbs (Sydney) and Michael Kutschbach (Adelaide) Chelsea Lehmann (Sydney) and Mary-Jean Richardson (Adelaide), Gary Deirmendijan (Sydney) and Hossein Valamanesh (Adelaide) and; Kirtika Kain (Sydney) and Laura Wills (Adelaide).

Edge Spring Festival - Ashfield Civic Centre Inner West Council

Ritual Lanterns, Ritual Chandeliers and Ritual Walking

Installations and performance

6 - 9 September 2019

Ritual Lanterns, Ritual Chandeliers and Ritual Walking evokes the precarious tension between loss, separation and hoped of reconciliation experienced by an arrival in a new country.

Welcome to Country Ceremony

Smoke Ceremony with Uncle Noel and Kids, Ashfield Living Art Team and Suara Indonesian Dancers

100 ritual paper lanterns

10 ritual incense chandeliers

Collaboration with Esem Projects on Video and Photograph

https://www.instagram.com/esemprojects/

https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/arts-and-cultural-programs/edge

https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/edge-festival/

Funded by Ashfield Inner West Council

Conversations - ritual meeting, Eden Unearthed

Incense, red string, earth and bamboo wind chime

29th August 2018 - 29 February 2019

Opening speaker by Georgiadis from ABC’s Gardening Australia program.

Funded by Eden Garden

307 Lane Cove Rd, Macquarie Park NSW 2113

Photo by Eden Garden

This installation is associated with ritual, mediation, time and healing that places an awareness of aloneness in the art process as a cultivated modernity. This perspective of healing through the process of art and choice of materials informs my Chinese’s view of offerings, temple ritual, church and ceremonies. This proposes a connection from past to present and from the temporary to the eternal.

https://edengardensblog.wordpress.com

https://wordpress.com/tag/incense

Paper Lantern Workshop with Community, 24th July 2018

Funded by Ashfield Inner West Council

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lantern-making-master-class-tickets

Paper Lantern Workshop with Indonesian Welfare Association

06th July 2018

Funded by Ashfield Inner West Council

Lantern Making Workshop with Community, 26th June 2018

Funded by Ashfield Inner West Council

Lantern Making Workshop with Ashfield Community

29th June 2018

Funded by Ashfield Inner West Council

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spring-lantern-making-workshop-tickets

Solo Show: Offerings – Phei Phei

Ceramics Installation

18 April – 17 June 2018

Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture Gallery, Building EA.G.03, Parramatta South Campus,

Western Sydney University

https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/aciac/exhibitions2/offerings_phei_phei

http://www.chinaqw.com/hqhr/2018/05-03/188307.shtml#cyhd

https://www.xuehua.us/2018/05/03/华裔艺术家陈生利陶瓷作品悉尼展出-缤纷色彩呈现/

http://www.myactimes.com/actimes/plus/view.php?aid=1448211

http://www.argentong.com/article-117307-1.html

Groups Show

A Particular Portion of Space

9th April - 4th May 2018

Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School

Solo Exhibition: Heritage - Peranakan

To be opened by Claudia Chan Shaw

Chrissie Cotter Gallery

14 - 25 February 2018

https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/art-events/arts-and-culture/chrissie-cotter-gallery

https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/news-hot-topics/media/media-releases/heritage-peranakan-exhibition-at-chrissie-cotter-gallery

http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/community/arts-and-culture/create-enews/livingartsnews-february-2018

https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/indonesian/en/audiotrack/pameran-heritage-peranakan-jayanto-damanik-tan

Guide Dogs Installation

Sydney Chinese New Year 2018

Scout Place - Circular Quay

http://www.lawsons.com.au/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?

https://www.guidedogs.com.au/cnydog/jayanto

The Performative Trace with Alan Schacher

the Rayner Hoff Project Space NAS building 11

26^th February – 1^st March 2018, 9.30 – 4.30 each day

Exhibition Drawing Week

Rayner Hoff Project Space NAS

8^th – 26^th March 2018, 9.30 – 4.30

2017

Winner - Blooming Arts Mentoring Prize

Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown

Ceramics, glass, incense

23x22x22cm (top) 10x22x22cm (below)

2 December - 17 December 2017

Sydney Fringe Festival, Annandale Creative Art Centre

Offerings, Ceramic, paper, fabric, red cotton string

Installation, dimensions variable

17th - 24the September 2017

Offerings is an exploration of contemporary identity and cultural diversity. The symbolic ceramic sculptural objects are reminiscent of the offerings made by ordinary everyday Indonesians. Intertwined with western mythology, the work offers a sentiment of mixed spirituality and sharing. With an emphasis on colour, my work delivers a personal expression of identity and pride culminating in a celebration of liberation and creative freedom.

http://www.annandalecreativearts.com

Finalist: The Little Things Art Prize 2017

A Little offering, 2017, ceramic, 8,5x4x8.5cm

30 August - 10 September 2017

Saint Cloche Gallery

http://saintcloche.com/exhibitions/

Finalist: HIDDEN Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk

Offerings - Ceramic, found objects

26th August - 24th September 2017

Offerings, Jayanto’s contribution to Rookwood cemetery’s 150^th anniversary. This work is a reminder of the good times that were shared together in life before the loved one passed away. He transcends them with love - the love of delicious cakes and the love of sharing them with “friends” and acquaintances.

http://www.hiddeninrookwood.com.au/hidden-exhibition-2017/selected-artists

http://www.localnewsplus.com.au/story

http://www.insidehistory.com.au/2017/08/history-and-hidden-gems-celebrating-rookwood-cemeterys-150th-anniversary/

ceramic, 23X26X23cm (front), 22x32x22cm (back)

ceramic, 23X29X23cm

ceramic, 20X40X20cm

Funded by Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens - Macquarie Park

Floating life - 16 Ceramic plates, dimension variable

Opens 31st August 2017

This work is a sentiment of mixing spirituality and sharing, and as we well know, things are simply better when they are shared. This brings to mind a sentiment uttered by Yoko Ono - "We are all rivers flowing into the ocean, washed together".

https://www.edengardens.com.au/eden-unearthed

https://edengardensblog.wordpress.com

Finalist: For Art's Sake Prize 2017

Diversity - Ceramic, 27x10x32cm

http://forartssake.org.au

Finalist: 2017 Emerging Artist Craft Award

Waiting - Ceramic

http://www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/Exhibitions.htm

Group Show at Regard Gallery - Darlington

Ritual - Ceramic

Finalist: The Bayside Sculpture Award 2017 - Cook Park Kyeemagh

Homage, Ceramic, satin and clear glazes, 75x6x150cm

9th - 23th April 2017

Group Show, A Fresh Perspective at Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown

Finalist: The North Sydney Art Prize 2017

Homage, Ceramics, clear and satin glazes, 150x5x150cm

11th - 26th March 2017

https://www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/Home

Group Show La Place Suisse des Arts - Lausanne

Drawings, photograph, mixed media

Drawings Week - PROXIMITY - Articulate project space

497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt. Sydney

Diversity

Taiwanese red paper, Indonesian mat, Turkish wok, Australian sand,

Chinese-Indonesian incense

Human, hand cut red paper

Light, red string and found ladder

Origami Lantern Workshop, Lunar New Year Festival 2017

Kensington Contemporary

Window Display at Kensington Street

Solo Show: JOURNEY - MERANTAU, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney

High Tea - Ceramic, 22x32x22cm

https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/journeys-merantau

http://chippendalecreative.com/exhibitions/jayanto-damanik-tan-journeys/

https://www.theurbanlist.com/sydney/a-list/5-awesome-things-to-do-in-sydney-this-week3

Opening speaker: National Arts School Head of Ceramics: Merran Esson

and Director Kensington Contemporary: Nicky Gainsbourg

Group Show: La Place Suisse des Arts - Lausanne

Unsaid, unseen, Photograph, 42x62cm

http://swissartspace.blogspot.com.au

Group show at Gaffa "Get Amongst It"

Until We Meet Again - Buah Semangka Berdaun Sirih, Ceramic

19th - 30th Jan 2017

http://www.gaffa.com.au/exhibition/get-amongst-it-

2016

Finalist: 2016 Fisher's Ghost Art Award - Campbelltown Arts Centre

Offering - Stoneware, underglaze

29th October – 15th December

http://c-a-c.com.au/fishers-ghost-art-award-2016/

The Port Hacking Potters Group 49th National Pottery Competition and Exhibition 2016

Homage - Stoneware, underglaze, glaze each 5x6x3cm

16 - 27 Sep 2016

http://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Community/Hazelhurst/Exhibitions/Community-Gallery/

Spirit Garlands

BEAMS ART FESTIVAL 2016

Origami Joss paper

17th September 2016

Finalist: The Little Things Art Prize 2016

A Little Red Jelly - Stoneware, underglaze, glaze

31 August - 18 September 2016

http://saintcloche.com

Collaboration with Lesley Weber at Art Studio Gallery, Gosford

Complacency

Ceramics and Origami Joss paper

31st August - 11 September 2016

Lesley Weber (President, Central Coast Potters) and Jayanto Damanik Tan (recent graduate, National Art School), express a common opinion that "to doing nothing is not an option" when it comes to human rights. This exhbition is a reflection on individual social events and historical facts that focus on the human struggle for survival in an often unjust world.

Catherine Croll, Founding Director at Cultural Partnerships Australia and Director, Special Projects at Red Gate Gallery will be guest speaker at the opening reception on September 3rd, 6-8pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDxiH41Zdyk

http://www.artstudioscooperative.org/exhibitions-2016.html

http://www.artnewsportal.com/art-news/complacency

Collaboration with Tony Twigg in SLOT

Garden Arrangement

Ceramics, Origami Joss papers and Wooden Sculptures

12th August - 11th September 2016

This installation reflects on history, spirituality, transitions and myth.

In Garden Arrangement, I burned the yellow papers in the ceramic bowls to pay homage to family tradition and embrace my new culture in Australia. When Anie asked me, why I always hang my works. My response was I have always drifted from time to time, and I am still waiting for the moment to land, like Tony's wooden sculptures remaining firm on the ground.

http://slotlog.blogspot.com.au

Group Show - Mud Mix in Library Stairway Gallery

22nd August - 9th September 2016

Ceramics bowls

http://naslibrary.blogspot.com.au

Finalist Women's Art Prize 2016 City of Ryde

Three Sisters - Ceramics

See Street Gallery, Meadowbank

15th June to 2sd July 2016

http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/Events/Art-Events/Womens-Art-Prize-and-Exhibition/Womens-Art-Prize-2016-Finalist-Lists

Ice Cream

Ceramics

Small Sculpture Exhibition - Regard Studio Gallery, Darlington

21st May - 5 June 2016

Project with Indonesian Welfare Association and City of Ryde, Sydney

Drawings Mural Performance

10th May 2016

Project with Indonesian Welfare Association and City of Ryde, Sydney

Drawing Performance

Drawing Week 2016 - Drawing Performance

Joss papers and incense sticks

Rayner Hoff Studio, NAS - Sydney

Origami Lantern Workshop For Chinese New Year Festival 2016

Origami Joss papers

Kensington Street, Chippendale, Sydney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-iJ-EqjDmQ

TWENTY TWENTY

Ceramics

6 February - 20 February 2016

The Old Rum Store, Kensington Street, Chippendale 2008 NSW

In 2016, the City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival celebrates twenty years of vibrant festivities. The work was inspired by my childhood in Indonesia, watching my mother preparing for Chinese New Year. In my family, Chinese New Year is a time of much celebration, when people gather together having a good time and enjoying exotic dishes. The installation reflects the memories of those times and is also an offering to the natural world to help make a spiritual connection with the ancestors.

Curator by Claudia Chan Shaw

detail Tea Time

http://www.kensingtonstreet.com.au/twenty-twenty/

Cremation

Joss Papers (Golden Paper)

18th December - 23th February 2016

The Darlington Installation Project

30 Golden Grove Street, Darlington

As an ethic Chinese person born in Indonesia who is now an Australian citizen, Jayanto wanted to celebrate, Christmas, New Year and Chinese New Year simultaneously and continuously, and so he has done so in origami, hereby bringing a warm and golden festive glow to the corner of Abercrombie and Golden Grove streets. Cremation is the ultimate fate to the small vessel he has weaved together for his origami.

Curator by Tony Twigg

detail Cremation - Joss Papers

Weaved Joss Papers

http://www.bedbreakfastsydney.com.au/dip.html

http://slotlog.blogspot.com.au

2015

Pinch Bowls with Disability Regens Wagner, Glott - Germany

07th December 2015

http://regens-wagner-gloett.de/hp1/Startseite.htm

photos by Regens Wagner

Folding papers and Eat Dumpling with Children Hospital - Les Ateliers Du Coeur at Lausanne, Switzerland

Joss Papers

14th November 2015

The project references the influence of cross cultural ideas and the world that surrounds us. And about explore issues of trust, intimacy and self-awareness through sharing activities. By sharing activities - fold papers and eat dumpling, the audience create a memorial to everyday life. Audience experiences a different culture and embracing values what the world has offered.

Fold papers and eat dumpling were activities have been used for thousands of years in Chinese tradition. Also known as “excuse” for people gather together having a good time and enjoying exotic dishes.

By created these pieces gave me a sense of connection with another culture and an appreciation for previous generations' influence on our lives.

Funded by Children Hospital Lausanne

https://lesateliersducoeur.wordpress.com/2015/

Photos by Swen Bauch

This work was inspired by a visit to my sister in 2013 - when she folded a piece of origami joss paper for her husband. This immediately brought back a flood of wonderful childhood memories. It took me back to that short period of time when such simple things as folding paper could occupy a child's attention. Today this origami reflects the memories of those times and also pays homage to her following her recent death from breast cancer in 2014.

Highly Commended: Women's Art Prize 2015 City of Ryde

Conversations With Clara I - Percakapan Berdarah

Responding to the 2015 International Women’s Day theme: "Make it Happen", Conversations with Clara I and II has been created to remember the victims of May Riots 1998. Clara was one of the victims of gang rape in the May Riots of 1998, which largely targeted Chinese-Indonesia.

See Street Gallery, See Street, Meadowbank

Ceramics, Stocking and Cotton threat

Highly Commended: Women's Art Prize 2015

Conversations With Clara II - Airmata Berdarah

See Street Gallery, See Street, Meadowbank

Plaster, Stocking and Cotton threat

Highly Commended: Women's Art Prize 2015

Conversations With Clara I and II

See Street Gallery, See Street, Meadowbank

http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/Whats+On/Art+Events/Womens+Art+Prize

Conversations with Clara - Pecakapan Berdarah

Remembrance Riot May 1998

Regard Studio Gallery at Darlington opp Carriageworks

Ceramics and Cotton threat

Papers Prayers Installation - 350 Wishes for Harmony Day at Ashfield Park

Interactive Performance with papers

Colourful paper and found object

Paper Prayers Installation - 350 Wishes for Harmony Day at Ashfield Park

Colour paper and found object

Paper Prayers Installation - 350 Wishes for Harmony Day at Ashfield Park

Colour paper and found object

Grant from Ashfield Council

Paper Prayers Installation - 350 Wishes for Harmony Day at Ashfield Park

photos by Ashfield Council

youblisher.com-1094935-Ciao_Magazine_253.pdf

Art Month 2015 - SYDNEY'S SMALLEST GALLERY, Nauti Studio

Family, used tea bags and ink, under 3x3cm

Art Month 2015 - SYDNEY'S SMALLEST GALLERY, Nauti Studio

Je suis Charlie, pencil, under 3x3cm

Art Month 2015 - SYDNEY'S SMALLEST GALLERY, Nauti Studio

Je suis Charlie 2, pencil, under 2x2cm

http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/exhibitions/sydneys-smallest-gallery/

Accelerator Gallery, Culture at Work, Pyrmont

Conversations with Clara

Used tea bags and glue, each 71x240cm

Accelerator Gallery, Culture at Work, Pyrmont

Conversations with Clara, detail

Used tea bags and glue, each 71x240cm

Conversations with Clara has been created to remember the victim of Riot May 1998. I was inspired by my previous visit to the homeland Indonesia has created this tea bags installation. As records (TGPF) shown 1190 people were burned, 27 people were shot and 168 ethic women were raped. This installation symbolises life and hope.

http://www.cultureatwork.com.au/cadavre-exquis-collaboration-artists-using-different-media/

Highly Commented: Chinese New Year Interpretations Exhibition, Art Studios Gallery, Gosford

Conversations at Pondok Waginem, detail

Used tea bags and acrylic, 95x30x30cm

Highly Commented: Chinese New Year Interpretations Exhibition, Art Studios Gallery, Gosford

Conversations at Pondok Waginem

Used tea bags and acrylic, 95x30x30cm

Highly Commented: Chinese New Year Interpretations Exhibition, Art Studios Gallery, Gosford

Conversations at Pondok Waginem

Interactive Performance with Used teabags

Used tea bags and acrylic, 95x30x30cm

with judge Catherine Croll

This lantern made of used tea bags as symbolise the remembrance of the good times that were shared together in life (celebrated of Chinese New Year). The party may be over but the memories linger like bright lantern shining through. I encourage audience to look inside the lantern and image that lantern flashes a bright red light, and fill up the entire room with laughter and festive.

http://www.artstudioscooperative.org/upcoming-exhibitions.html

2014

Interactive Performance slept on mother's grave at Tegal Alur, Jakarta - Indonesia

Melepaskan Rindu - Conversation at Pondok Waginem

3 minutes video

A video work reflecting the essential dilemmas between a mother and son. By having slept on his mother's grave, Jayanto is trying to reconnecting with his mother by spirituality. This refers to a physical act of destruction in responses to internal emotional struggles and ceremoniously about letting go and making a new life in another country without abandoning the past.

To remembrance of the May Riots 1998, Jayanto invited families of the victims of May Riots 1998 to gather in the cemetery Pondok Ranggon, Cibubur to share their stories. At the end of performance, ceramics are given to the families of the victims to take it home as souvenir.

Conversations at Pondok Ranggon

Interactive Performance with Ceramics

All day Performance

Interactive Performance at Pondok Ranggon

Conversations at Pondok Ranggon

And on Friday, 15th May 15 2015 | 07:20 am

The monument was erected as a reminder of the victims and of the unresolved tragedy.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/05/15/may-1998-monument-hailed-sign-state-responsibility.html