Exhibitions featuring Tasmanian artist and contemporary jeweller, Janine Combes
Paper towns and abandoned places, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart: 30 November - 8 December 2024
A solo show for the end of my Master of Fine Arts (Research) featuring forty-nine works of varying scales exhibited across four gallery spaces. It included sculpture, installation and contemporary jewellery works.
The exhibition was the subject of a glowing review by Tasmanian arts writer Andrew Harper:
https://makeanddo.art/notes-on-paper-towns-and-abandoned-places/?ref=make-and-do-newsletter
Watch a short video of some of the exhibition works here. Images by Jessica King, Photography.
This Place, Handmark Gallery, Hobart, March 2024
View these works:
Janine Combes – Handmark
Re-imagining the Ocean, Maritime Museum, Tasmania September- December 2023
Truth or Dare, Adornaxis, New York Contemporary Jewellery Week, 2023
Garlands of Fragments neckpiece was exhibited at New York Contemporary Jewellery Week 2023 as part of Truth or Dare, Adornaxis. I use the form of the fragment to interrogate ideas of history, place and belonging.
Events - NYCJW (nycjewelryweek.com)
Difficult Terrain exhibition: The Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny Farm, Hobart
1-24 September 2023
This was my first role as Curator - 10 Tasmanian contemporary jewellers creating very diverse and high-quality works. It was well received, a great process and an incredibly beautiful show. This series of neckpieces are part of a body of work for my Master of Fine Arts (Research) which focuses on abandoned towns, sites of resource extraction. I use recycled tin, engraved with text and copper electrical wire, in a method I call 'writing with soft edges' and 'torn text'.
Precious: excellence in contemporary jewellery
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania 8 July-1 October 2023
I was very excited to be part of this show of 16 Tasmanian contemporary jewellers. This exhibition was dedicated to artists who explore, delight in, and expand the possibilities of contemporary jewellery.
Profile' 22 Australian Design Centre, Sydney
TIDAL 2020
Women's Art Prize Tasmania 2020 and 2022
I've been honoured to be selected for this award exhibition on two occasions.
Liminal series brooches, fine silver, sterling silver, brass, copper.
Finalists 2020 — Women's Art Prize Tasmania (womensartprizetas.com.au)
The works shown above were made from vintage Australian pennies into which I engraved words about the state of women's rights. They reference the Suffragettes who carved 'votes for women' into British Pennies as a political strategy in their campaign.
Finalists 2022 — Women's Art Prize Tasmania (womensartprizetas.com.au)
Profile '19 at the Australian Design Centre, Sydney
In 2019 I was lucky to be selected as finalist in Profile'19 meaning that my work was shown alongside some of the best of Australia's contemporary jewellers.
Women's Word exhibition 2019
This piece called Legacy was made in memory of my mother who died just before this exhibition. Held in Kingston at the Community Hub, it featured text, family photographs and engraved map lines.
Handmark, Tasmania,
Time and Tide, March 2019
Material Memories
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston 2018-2019
The Flower Lady - ten decades, Art Farm October 2018
This exhibition was officially opened by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, The Honourable Kate Warner. The exhibition was held to celebrate the 100th birthday of my mother who was known as 'The Flower Lady'. The show featured jewellery about my mother's life and history, her love of flowers and dressing well.
http://handmark.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/COMBES_2017_EX_CATALOGUE-2.pdf
Contemporary Wearables 2015, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
http://artguide.com.au/whats-on-page/show/contemporary-wearables-15/
Australian Silver and Metalwork Award 2015, Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery
Radiant Pavilion September 2015, Melbourne : Serial Exchange @ Loop Project Space
The Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart and the Schoolhouse Gallery, 2015: 'Exquisite'
Physis+Nature+ Essence: Janine Combes at Handmark Contemporary Art and Jewellery, Hobart 2014
http://handmark.com.au/jewellery/
Pushing the Boundaries: 15 Tasmanian Contemporary Jewellers @ the Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny, Tasmania 2013
