Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Tiana Jefferies is an Australian artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation. Her practice explores ecological intimacies and how they form in public spaces. Her works borrow visual language from playground equipment, camping gear and outdoor architectures such as bird hides. These materials and visual cues are rearranged to playfully imagine structures for queer and ecological intimacies. At the core of Jefferies’ practice is a desire to evoke a specific affective tone through thoughtful material compositions. Informed by queer theory and irreverent ecocriticism, Jefferies’ teetering sculptures delight in ironic slippages and glimmer with joyful degeneracy.

The Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowships are an initiative of Brisbane City Council.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

While at GlogauAIR, I plan to pursue my interests in the coalescence of architectures, bodies and ecologies. It is my hope to learn from existing ecologies in Berlin, from the garden at GlogauAIR to the bodies moving through Tempelhofer Feld. I am interested in the architectures that determine ecological relationships, the way they assist certain bodies’ intimacies and hinder others. I am particularly interested in relationships that might be considered naughty or deviant, that reject the use prescribed by an architecture in order to find joy or pleasure. From these observations, studio outcomes will experiment with casting and built assemblages to form sculptures that engage with theatrical and camp aesthetics.

CV Summary

Education

2021 Master of Philosophy (Creative Practice), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

2018 Bachelor of Visual Arts. Queensland College Art, Brisbane

2016 Study Exchange, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Solo Exhibitions

2023 teetering, tittering, tits up, Metro Arts.

2022 Works from the Hope Street Studio, Town Square Vitrines, Fish Lane.

2021 like a spectre, but you can feel it, Wreckers Artspace, Woolloongabba.

2020 holding hands with the kerbside, QUT Kelvin Grove

2020 At the meniscus, Frank Moran Gallery, Kelvin Grove

2019 Cavitation, Dumb Dumb ARI, East Brisbane