PhD candidate Kathryn Jeanes is an artist passionate about developing the notion of archives, researching three Girls Industrial Schools operating 1867-1901. She questions social and cultural realities, at times through fortuitous events and creates
...MorePhD candidate Kathryn Jeanes is an artist passionate about developing the notion of archives, researching three Girls Industrial Schools operating 1867-1901. She questions social and cultural realities, at times through fortuitous events and creates resonating pieces for exhibitions. Throughout her art practice, she has engaged with investigations and research of specific sites. These observations generate a strong link to creative processes, where images or archival work has facilitated the relevance of work, representing traces of the past. The phenomenology of place, identity and experience often construct the pattern for her work. With a background in textiles an emphasis on tactile qualities has emerged as a dominant sensory feature that is observed and incorporated into her art. Exploring photography, textiles and bookbinding practices a site specific exhibition Reparation was installed on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour in April 2017. Further exhibitions and presentations have given a voice to the incarcerated girls and contributed to the gap in the history of Cockatoo Island relating to the cruelty the girls endured, and enlightening viewers to their plight.
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