CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Jacob Leary

Jacob Leary is a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice spanning a range of mediums including painting, prints, video and installation. A tendency toward the dynamic has fed his preoccupation with assemblage, resulting in artworks that operate within seriality as well as a tendency toward change. Leary's most recent works place an emphasis on the aesthetic realm of appearances, the world of surfaces (glimmers, sparkles and reflections) and notions of excess. 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.

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Bubblegum Dystopia as wallpaper art

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

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, undertaking research exploring the exponential growth of technology within contemporary culture. He has 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 QANTAS Curates Initiative in 2017, which saw his works featured on the airline’s international Business Class amenity kits, exhibitied at DarkMofo in 2016 in conjunction with the Tasmanian College of the Arts and also exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery in 2013, as part of their Emerging Artists Program.

He has won numerous awards and grants including the John Fries Memorial Prize (2012), the Contemporary Art Tasmania Studio Grant (2012) and an Australia Council Grant for Emerging Artists (2013). He has been a finalist in the Glover Prize (2018), the Hutchins Art Prize, Works on Paper (2018), the Redlands Art Prize (2016), and the City of Hobart Prize for Printmaking (2014). He has undertaken commissions for Hobart College, MONA FOMA and the Moonah Arts Centre.

Jacob is currently a seasonal staff member at the Hobart School of Art and is undertaking a PHD at the University of Tasmania. 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.

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Media Highlights

The Present Is The Past 2021
Mixed media, framed
84cm x 84cm
$7,000 AUD

Crystallized (B4 Your Eyes) 2021
Mixed media, framed
84cm x 84cm
$7,000 AUD

(H)infinite Space 2021
Mixed media, framed
84cm x 84cm
$7,000 AUD

Beyond The Imminent 2021
Mixed media, framed
84cm x 84cm
$7,000 AUD

Final Horizon 2021
Mixed media, framed
86cm x 112cm
$9,000 AUD

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

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

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

Bubblegum Dystopia -wallpaper 2019
Phototex removable wallpaper
211cm x 833cm
$18,000 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, unframed
100cm x 100cm ed of 5
$1,500 AUD

Neu Space 2021
Archival print mounted on aluminium with UV resistant laminate, framed, ed. of 5
62cm x 62cm (60 x 60cm unframed)
$1,100 AUD

Tracing Place 2021
Archival print mounted on aluminium with UV resistant laminate, framed, ed. of 5
62cm x 62cm (60 x 60cm unframed)
$1,100 AUD

Eclipse To This 2021
Archival print mounted on aluminium with UV resistant laminate, framed, ed. of 5
62cm x 62cm (60 x 60cm unframed)
$1,100 AUD

Fungal Analogy 2021
Archival print mounted on aluminium with UV resistant laminate, framed, ed. of 5
62cm x 62cm (60 x 60cm unframed)
$1,100 AUD

Hologrammatical 2021
Archival print mounted on aluminium with UV resistant laminate, framed, ed. of 5
62cm x 62cm (60 x 60cm unframed)
$1,100 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

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