CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Jacob Leary

Jacob Leary is a multi-disciplinary with a practice spanning a range of mediums including painting, prints and installation. His tendency toward the dynamic has fed his preoccupation with assemblage. Creating artworks that operate within a series, Leary allows for a tendency toward change to occur. It is this investigation not only of aesthetically pleasing pattern and systems, but also the theories of philosophers such as Manual DeLanda, which informs how his artworks are executed.

Leary’s works are composed through an intense and laborious process that combines digital drawing with more conventional modes of hand-crafted assemblage and collage. The sculptures he creates are reminiscent of topographic land masses – mountains of geometric forms undulating in a mass of exploding colour. The works start as two dimensional shapes or “territories” as he calls them but grow into worlds based on patterns and algorithmic systems that inform the artistic process of composition.
Excerpt from Something Terrain catalogue essay by Owen Craven, Melbourne-based Senior Curator with UAP

In 2017 Leary was selected to participate in the QANTAS Curates Initiative, with his artwork featuring on the airline’s international Business class amenity kits. In 2016 he exhibited in Brainstorm at the Tasmanian College of the Arts as part of DarkMofo and at Contemporary Art Tasmania. He was a finalist in the Redlands Art Prize and has recently undertaken commissions for Hobart College and MONA FOMA. In 2014, Leary was selected a finalist in the Printmaking category of the City of Hobart Art Prize and in 2015 he was a finalist in the Burnie Print Prize (TAS) and in the Hutchins Art Prize (TAS) for works on paper. In 2012 Jacob completed a Masters of Fine Arts at the Hobart School of Art, creating a multimedia installation exploring the exponential growth of technology in contemporary culture.

Jacob is currently a seasonal staff member at the Hobart School of Art. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the 2012 John Fries Memorial Prize, a national award for emerging visual artists. He has also been the recipient of multiple grants including a Contemporary Art Tasmania Studio in 2012 and an Australia Council grant for emerging artists in 2013. He has been collected by Artbank University of Tasmania, Justin Art House Museum, RACT Collection, Tasmanian Government, llisington collection and Ormond College.

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Something Terrain, by Owen Craven 2017
The Origins of Superfluous, by Melanie Caple 2015

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Negation 2017
stacked paper cuts
81cm x 81cm x 8cm framed
$6,500 AUD

Skewed 2017
stacked paper cuts
81cm x 81cm x 8cm framed
$6,500 AUD

Geometric 1 2017
stacked paper cuts
81cm x 81cm x 8cm framed
$9,500 AUD

Trace Diagram 2016
stacked paper cuts, framed
46cm x 46cm x 14.5cm
$4,500 AUD

White B Diagram 2016
stacked paper cuts, framed
33cm x 33cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

Fall Diagram 2016
stacked paper cuts, framed
33cm x 33cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

Rise Diagram 2016
stacked paper cuts, framed
33cm x 33cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

Oct2circle Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

SquareRnd (Negative) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

King of the Castle (Positive) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

King of the Castle (Negative) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

Duplex (Negative) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12 cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

Duplex (Positive) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12cm
$2,750 AUD

Rainbow Pyramid Negative 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Ediths Psychedelic Positve 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Sweaky (Positve) 2017
stacked paper cuts
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

Pixel Line Negative 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Pixel Line Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Double Polygon Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Rearranged Fraction Negative 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Rearranged Fraction Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Shell Type Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Blobby Residue Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm
$2,200 AUD

Space Invaderz 2016
assorted tape on aluminium panel
75cm x 75cm
$2,900 AUD

Checked Square 2016
assorted tape on aluminium panel
75cm x 75cm
$2,900 AUD

A Theory of Everything 2015
acrylic and enamel on canvas
90cm x 90cm
$3,750 AUD

It's Only Platonic Solids 2015
acrylic and enamel on canvas
90cm x 90cm
$3,750 AUD

Liquid Crystals 2015
acrylic and enamel on canvas
90cm x 90cm
$3,750 AUD

Handsome Thing 2012
Giclee print, framed 2 editions of 5 remaining
125cm x 100cm
In Artist's Studio
$3,500 AUD

The Cutest Flood 2015
archival print on photographic paper
100cm x 80cm , edition of 3
$2,500 AUD

Laughter of the Height 2012
Giclee print, framed 3 editions of 5 remaining
100cm x 80cm
In Artist's Studio
$2,275 AUD

Bubblegum Dystopia 2013
Giclee print, framed AP remaining
100cm x 160cm
ed 4/5 available
In Artist's Studio
$4,450 AUD

Dreams of Day 2013
Giclee print, framed 3 editions of 2 remaining
80cm x 100cm
$2,500 AUD

Things Float in Space 2014
Giclee print, framed 1 editions of 3 remaining
100cm x 160cm
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