Morus Quin
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Morus Quin is a Sydney based artist working across, performance, printmaking, painting and jewellery. Quin’s work maps out culturally modified perspectives of the body, inhabiting both feminist and medical perspectives. She unravels the impacts of sexual violence on the body, seeking to understand the body’s processes of activity and decay in response to trauma.
Through her Chinese and American background and her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Quin works to expand our cultural narratives of both the body and identity and bring this expanse into a colliding, clashing and harmonising unity.
Artist Statement
“My memories move the paint, they direct its application, its violence, its detail. These works re-form a reality that has seemingly passed, absent from the outside world but present and recurring on the interior.
The body is where much of our subconscious resides, often vivid to our viscera but hazy to our sight. The body’s memory speaks through our skin and blood, through sensation and numbness, viscerally and instinctually. The works use paint as a tool of translation, to louden the language of the body and let it be heard. My paintings expose the sunken experiences of the past, to bring the subconscious into the conscious.” – Morus Quinn
The Landscape is Beyond ME
“Western perceptions of land on the other hand position the landscape as the other and the outer, a site to be developed, exploited, and experienced. As a little boy growing up on the land I was constantly evolving within a combination of fear and wonder. The unfolding landscape was filled with forms of heroes and villains contained within nature, seasons, and time. This was and still is providing me with the essential ingredients of connection and experience. My experience of land was not that of conquest, violence, tragedy, or despair yet it existed upon it" – Dean Reilly.
Sydney Rocks
This exhibition is inspired by hikes around Sydney harbour and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. “We have on our doorstep one of Australia’s most diverse geological wonders of all time, The Sydney Basin. My painting inspiration is one small section by comparison but to me its presence is huge. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park with its beautiful Hawkesbury River backdrop magnifies the intense beauty, heightens the light and compounds the stature of the extraordinarily awesome monolithic ROCKS!”- Miranda Summers
Untitled. 2022
Untitled. is an annual tjg initiative that focuses on celebrating the works of guest artists foreign to our gallery space. Curated from local, interstate and international artists all at varying stages of their artistic journeys.
Captured Moments
Customarily my paintings encapsulate an observers captivated gaze over a subject. My viewpoint on someone captured living in a moment.
Porous and Quivering
Will Maguire’s solo exhibition titled ‘Porous and Quivering’ is an exploration into the vibrancy of matter and features a range of sculptural works in metal and wood
Andrew Bennett Pop Up
Andrew's ‘Still Life’ works delve into the imagination, melding the conscious with a dream-like surreal subconscious.
Chiaroni Pop Up
Chiaroni was born in Southland New Zealand and creates pieces that speak of his traditional New Zealand heritage.
Sydney & Surrounds
'Sydney & Surrounds' is a thematic group exhibition that will be held during the month of February and features numerous tjg artists responding to this theme. Overt or with subtle links to the thematic brief, works include sculpture, painting, collage and mixed media.
Hot Dogs
Rory OBrien's ‘Hot Dogs’ works pick up on the character of the canines he meets, capturing them in bright, bold and contrasting colours.
Kuringgai
To celebrate the launch of Miranda's works at the gallery we are thrilled to announce 'Kuringgai' a pop-up exhibition of exciting new highly textured works.
Mixed Tricks
This exciting body of work features new approaches and further developments of Andrew’s notable style. From his iconic beach and waterscapes to vibrant birds bursting with personality and colour 'Mixed Tricks' includes paintings rendered with looser brushstrokes and an earthy palette embracing Australia's magnificent iconic bushlands.
Gardens, Water and the Great Outdoors
During the lockdowns Megan needed to work from her existing photographic stock. Studying these references it was apparent a running theme had emerged, that of
gardens, water and all subject matter taken from the great outdoors, hence the title.
Finding Stillness
This body of work titled ‘Finding Stillness’ provides the viewer with what feels like a safe haven, where a feeling of calmness and quiet pervades
The Quiet Life
I have a folder that I fill with interesting pictures of everyday moments. As I’ve returned to this file over the years, I’ve found that the images have evolved over time. I have altered and displaced the figures in these pictures to echo a transformation. An approach that gives rise to a dreamlike atmosphere where reality, memory and illusion collide.
Sam Hopkins Selected Works Exhibition
Sam Hopkins 'Selected Works' exhibition features a variety of mediums from 316 marine grade stainless steel, Corten steel, aluminium and timbers across wall-mounted, plinth based, suspended and free-standing pieces.
Somersaults & Cartwheels
Rebecca Pierce’s solo exhibition 'Somersaults & Cartwheels' is a voyage into colour and texture with large doses of positivity, happiness and fun.
Remember The Wild
‘Remember the Wild’ is an exploration and an appreciation of how these trees; through culture, sacred and spiritual connections, define the character of the Australian bush and our growing understanding of their significance.
Seemingly Compliant
Niki McDonalds Pop Up exhibition is divided over three mediums - paintings, tapestries and three-dimensional works.
The Flower Market
Ebony Bennett, Dylan Cooper, Cameron Gordon, Andrew Grassi-Kelaher, Sam Hopkins, Jude Hotchkiss, Elise Judd, Niki McDonald, Rebecca Pierce, Edgar Schilter, Murat Urlali, Andrew Bennett, Astrid Dahl, Megan Barrass, Ji Chen, Jenny Green, Pat Hall, Danielle McManus, Zom Osborne, Teresa Poon, Bronwyn Searle, Nigel Sense, Ben Tankard, Meredith Woolnough, Kayo Yokoyama
'The Flower Market' includes a mix of traffic jam galleries' artists with works responding to a botanical theme.
Joie Villeneuve Pop Up
We are thrilled for the Pop Up exhibition of artist Joie Villeneuve to launch her representation with traffic jam galleries.
Newsletter #185
September 29, 2022
We are excited to share new work by REBECCA PIERCE for her upcoming solo exhibition opening October 14th 'And Yet Again' 61 x 45cm acrylic paint and ink, oil sticks and charcoal on canvas $ 1,200.00
September 25, 2022
'Seems Like a Good Idea at the Time' by DEAN REILLY "Much of our early colonial history is riddled with absurdity. Explorers doomed for failure through bad planning miscommunication and a disconnect and discomfort with the landscape. Like a fish out of water or a naked white man on a chartreuse camel, the new can sometimes appear bizarre." - Dean Reilly 'Seems Like a Good Idea at the Time' 40.5 x 51cm, 43.5 x 54cm framed acrylic on canvas $ 1,400.00
September 24, 2022
"The great gold rush has never really ended it has just become corporatized, legalised, monopolised, justified and naturalised. Fly into the heart of Australia and you will see men in uniform moving about in airports, to go and dig up the earth to provide security and pleasure for their families." - DEAN REILLY Gold 1, 2 and 3 on display and available now