Sunday jemmott


About me





Sunday Jemmott is an emerging Meanjin/Brisbane based artist working primarily across painting and contemporary jewellery.


In her recent work, she mobilises trivialised aesthetics to reframe the devaluing of play in art history and contemporary culture. Doing so, by harnessing abstraction, multi-disciplinary painting, and sculpture activated through installation and high-key colour,


Jemmott explores play and re-introduces the power of joy to viewers. Her experimental and whimsical work uses the rigour of craft and intense chromatic colour to advocate for play, mediating the intersection between the low-brow and the rigid notions of modern painting.




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Education

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) Class I - Queensland College of Art, Griffith University


Solo Exhibitions

Upcoming 2023, Nextdoor ARI

2022 the/my/our playground, The Archive, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, Brisbane


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 COMMUNE, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane

2022 Courtyard: Zine Fair, Nextdoor ARI, Institute of Modern Art

2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick St Gallery, Melbourne

2022 Lethbridge 2000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane

2022 Haute Rococo, Grey St Gallery, QCA, Brisbane

2021 2021 Honours and MAVA Graduate Exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2021 Lemonade Stand, Gey St Gallery QCA, Brisbane

2021 A House is not a Home, House Conspiracy, Brisbane

2021 Dabbler Studio Showcase​, KEPK, Brisbane

2021 What Matters, KEPK, Brisbane

2021 2020 QCA Graduate Exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2020 Commune with Me, Grey Street Gallery, QCAS, Brisbane

2020 The Brisbane Indie Project, The Brightside, Brisbane

2020 Academics in Pandemic, Online Exhibition, Ethical Metalsmiths, International

2020 #QCAATHOME, Online Exhibition, QCA Galleries, Brisbane

2020 About Face, Artisan, Brisbane

2019 The Work of Art in The Age of The Selfie, Grey St Gallery QCA, Brisbane

2019 Brooching the Subject, Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Strathpine

2018 Creative Generations, GOMA, Brisbane

2017 Creative Generations Excellence Awards in Visual Art, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane


Awards

2022 Finalist, Lethbridge 2000 Small Scale Art Award

2021 University Medal, Griffith University

2017 Creative Generations Excellence in Visual Art

2020/19/18 Griffith University Academic Excellence


Writing

2022 “(FUN) House Mirrors”, Exhibition Essay for I am there only when I appear, Kathleen O’Hagan

2021 “Affirmative Actions”, The Activist Essay and the Cruthers Collection, Sheila Foundation Blog, Online Article


Media

2021 “Bitter-Sweet, Sparkling Nostalgia” Lemonade Stand Exhibition Essay by Kathleen O’Hagan

2021 July, Affirmative Actions: The Activist Essay and the Cruthers Collection, Sheila Blog, Online Article

2020 Nov, Women of Noizzze Radio Interview

2020 Nov, Scratch That Magazine, Issue 3, Online



I ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS OF THE LAND ON WHICH I CREATE, THE TURRBAL AND JAGERA PEOPLE, AND PAY MY RESPECTS TO ELDERS PAST, PRESENT, AND EMERGING. SOVEREIGNTY HAS NEVER BEEN CEDED. IT ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE ABORIGINAL LAND.