CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Jacob Leary

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Jacob Leary has been selected as one of ten Hobart Current: Liberty 2020 artists. Hobart Current is an innovative long-term partnership between the City of Hobart and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Learn more about this initiative and listen to Jacob discuss his practice below.

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Bubblegum Dystopia as wallpaper art.

Jacob Leary is a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice spanning a range of mediums including painting, prints, video 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 Manuel 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

Athena (left) and Fran (right) from 2019 solo exhibition

Liquid Portals

12.35 minute 2 channel video by Jacob Leary and Ariel Ruby, ed of 3 $4,400 AUD.

Jacob Leary completed his Masters of Fine Arts at the Hobart School of Art in 2011, undertaking research via a series of eclectic installations exploring the exponential growth of technology within contemporary culture. He has since been invited to participate in a range of high profile exhibitions and initiatives including Hobart Current: Liberty 2020 in conjunction with the City of Hobart and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the 2017 QANTAS Curates Initiative, which saw his works featured on the airline’s international Business Class amenity kits, exhibiting with the Tasmanian College of the Arts as part of DarkMofo in 2016 and with the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery in 2013, as part of their Emerging Artists Program.

He has won numerous awards for his work, including the John Fries Memorial Prize (2012), a national award for emerging visual artists, and has also been the recipient of multiple grants including a Contemporary Art Tasmania Studio Grant in 2012 and an Australia Council Grant for Emerging Artists in 2013. He was a finalist in the Glover Prize (2018), the Hutchins Art Prize – Works on Paper (2018), the Redlands Art Prize (2016), the Burnie Print Prize (2015) and the City of Hobart Prize - Printmaking (2014). He has undertaken commissions for Hobart College and MONA FOMA and the Moonah Arts Centre.

Jacob is currently a seasonal staff member at the Hobart School of Art. His work is held in the collections of Artbank, University of Tasmania, Justin Art House Museum, RACT Collection, Tasmanian Government, llisington Collection and Ormond College.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Things in Beauty, Beauty in Things,
by Andrew Gaynor 2019
Something Terrain, by Owen Craven 2017
The Origins of Superfluous, by Melanie Caple 2015

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Media Highlights

Fran 2019
mixed media
100cm x 100cm framed
$11,000 AUD

Athena 2019
mixed media
103cm x 103cm
$11,000 AUD

Lysh 2019
mixed media
100cm x 100cm framed
$11,000 AUD

The Object Compendium 2018
mixed media
84cm x 64cm x 15cm
$5,000 AUD

Krunckle 2018
mixed media
83cm x 63cm x 15cm
$5,000 AUD

Golden 1 2018
mixed media
32cm x 33cm x 12.5cm
$1,800 AUD

Bubblegum Dystopia -wallpaper 2019
Phototex removable wallpaper
211cm x 833cm
$25,000 AUD

Bubblegum Dystopia (A) 2019
Digital giclee
100cm x 197cm full size of diptych 100 x 394cm, unframed ed 5 - PRICED FOR THE PAIR
$8,500 AUD

Bubblegum Dystopia (B) 2019
Digital giclee
100cm x 197cm full size of diptych 100 x 394cm, unframed ed 5 - PRICED FOR THE PAIR
$8,500 AUD

Stuff in Nature, Nature in Stuff 2018
digital print
100cm x 100cm unframed, ed of 5
$1,500 AUD

Negation 2017
stacked paper cuts, Currently on display at SJB Offices
81cm x 81cm x 8cm framed
$6,500 AUD

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

King of the Castle (Positive) 2017
stacked paper cuts, Currently on display at SJB Offices
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

King of the Castle (Negative) 2017
stacked paper cuts, Currently on display at SJB Offices
32cm x 32cm x 12cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

Duplex (Negative) 2017
stacked paper cuts, Currently on display at SJB Offices
32cm x 32cm x 12 cm, framed
$2,750 AUD

Ediths Psychedelic Positve 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

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

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

Double Polygon Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm Currently on display at SJB Offices
$2,200 AUD

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

Shell Type Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

Blobby Residue Positive 2015
stacked paper cuts, framed
30cm x 30cm x 14.5cm
$2,200 AUD

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

[email protected] 2016
assorted tapes on aluminium panel
75cm x 75cm
$2,900 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 Currently on display at SJB Offices
$2,900 AUD

Liquid Crystals 2015
acrylic and enamel on canvas
90cm x 90cm Currently on display at SJB Offices
$3,750 AUD

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

Handsome Thing 2012
Giclee print, framed 2 editions of 5 remaining
125cm x 100cm unframed at FLG
$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

Dreams of Day 2013
Giclee print, framed 3 editions of 2 remaining
80cm x 100cm In artist's studio
$2,500 AUD

Liquidity 2018
single channel video, edition of 3. 37:40 mins
cm x cm size variable, ratio 16:9, in collaboration with Ariel Ruby
$5,000 AUD