Artist Statement
Artefacts of the Anthropocene is a body of work exploring our tumultuous time through the act of making with clay and metal. Imagine an apocalypse on Earth, and all that we know is buried under layers of sand and desertified soils. The internet and digital media as well as books and all written ways of sharing understanding are no longer available. What might be revealed by these unearthed objects? What can they offer about the unseen and the intangible? How can we experience them? What are their stories? Being of nature and of human hand, they transcend the nature/human duality and offer an opportunity to reflect on this illusory separation.
Bio
Jade Court-Gold is a Sydney/Gadi based non-indigenous, gender diverse artist working predominantly with metal and clay. Jade’s practice is a negotiation of materials in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to exist in a time of severe ecological upheaval. This is processed in real time through the making of objects - thinking through making. Objects, artefacts, aberrations; a continuation from one to another, without a specific desired outcome. Reflecting on societal and ecological dissociation, the artist uses intuition and emergence as methods to embody ways of knowing outside the mainstream western rhetoric..
In 2018 Jade was a finalist in the Alice Prize and the Fischer’s Ghost Prize. They are due to complete a Masters degree at National Art School in 2020 after receiving the Bird Holcomb scholarship.
Prior to studying at National Art School, Jade spent six years in the film and television industry working in the Camera department.
Artefacts of the Anthropocene is a body of work exploring our tumultuous time through the act of making with clay and metal. Imagine an apocalypse on Earth, and all that we know is buried under layers of sand and desertified soils. The internet and digital media as well as books and all written ways of sharing understanding are no longer available. What might be revealed by these unearthed objects? What can they offer about the unseen and the intangible? How can we experience them? What are their stories? Being of nature and of human hand, they transcend the nature/human duality and offer an opportunity to reflect on this illusory separation.
Bio
Jade Court-Gold is a Sydney/Gadi based non-indigenous, gender diverse artist working predominantly with metal and clay. Jade’s practice is a negotiation of materials in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to exist in a time of severe ecological upheaval. This is processed in real time through the making of objects - thinking through making. Objects, artefacts, aberrations; a continuation from one to another, without a specific desired outcome. Reflecting on societal and ecological dissociation, the artist uses intuition and emergence as methods to embody ways of knowing outside the mainstream western rhetoric..
In 2018 Jade was a finalist in the Alice Prize and the Fischer’s Ghost Prize. They are due to complete a Masters degree at National Art School in 2020 after receiving the Bird Holcomb scholarship.
Prior to studying at National Art School, Jade spent six years in the film and television industry working in the Camera department.