JEDDA-DAISY CULLEY

JEDDA-DAISY CULLEY | ‘DOWNLOAD HATS’
1 JULY - 23 JULY 2022

Jerico Contemporary is delighted to present 'Download Hats' with Australian artist Jedda-Daisy Culley. The exhibition opens on Friday 1st of July and continues until Saturday 23rd of July 2022. 'Download Hats' is a dramatic expression in psychoactive portraiture exploring the metaphysical nature of the almighty mother as a monster-like ghost exploding outside her physical form.

Join us for the exhibition opening on Friday 1st of July, 6-8pm.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:

‘AND YOUR MOTHER’S PSYCHIC SPAGHETTI RIVER’
12TH OF AUGUST – 4TH SEPTEMBER 2021

Showing exclusively online, Jerico Contemporary was pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition with Australian artist Jedda-Daisy Culley, And your mother’s psychic spaghetti river. And your mother’s psychic spaghetti river sees the artist explore a narrative perforated by deception and her fatalistic relationship with misconception, entering the space between death and survival. Fooled again by masters of disguise and working through her profound emotional response, the artist draws on themes of abandonment, fear and strength; speaking to the sentiment that there is no greater power than a mother fighting to save her children.

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS 2020

Drawing on her previous bodies of work that explore the female experience through themes of motherhood, vulnerability, expectation and connection, Jedda-Daisy Culley’s latest paintings focus on the space where fear and sexuality intersect. Having long grappled with the societal constructs placed on women, in her recent body of work the artist has delved deep into the idea of the self-sacrificing woman using feminist literature to investigate the complex — and often at odds — concept of sexuality and motherhood.

‘WIMON’
30TH OF JUNE – 18TH OF JULY 2020

Deeply moved by the seminal text The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, Jedda-Daisy Culley presents a series of portraits in WIMON that conjure up the various ways “womxn” engage with and express their feelings and appearances online. The word “womxn” tinkers with the traditional terms “woman” and “women”, eradicating the word “man” and any masculine connotations from its spelling. For decades feminists have pulled apart “woman/women” to create their own alternative spellings to address a recurring annoyance. Addressing this through the artwork titles of WIMON, Culley uses language like an algorithm, another layer to investigate themes of gender, representation and expectation.

‘FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS’
13TH OF MARCH - 28TH OF MARCH 2020

FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS is a multidisciplinary exhibition that breathes life into the small conversations we share with others and ourselves about our emotions and how we feel. Drawing on the artist’s previous body of work that explored the relationship between the female form, expectation and technology, Culley enters a new dialogue centred around themes of vulnerability, rejection, connection and access.

‘PRINTERS AND PORTALS’
4TH OF JULY – 20TH OF JULY 2019

Printers and Portals is a multidisciplinary show framed by the theme of the infinite Australian landscape, which has been fundamental to Culley's former bodies of work. Printers and Portals explores the concept of the female body as a printer and portal, a vessel of creation that melds with the earth and cosmos. The female body is often reduced to its biological function, to its ability to translate genetical data and star dust into life. As a conduit of creation herself—for both art and life—Culley’s latest body of work explores themes of expectation, birth, motherhood, and shines light on the insurmountable feeling of losing life data mid-transmission.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Jedda-Daisy Culley was born in 1984, Perth, Western Australia. The artist holds an Master of Fine Arts (UNSW) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with First Class Honours (UNSW). Her solo exhibitions include, ‘And your mother’s psychic spaghetti river’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2021), 'Pls send pics this feels one~sided', Cement Fondu Project Space, Sydney (2021), ‘WIMON’, Jerico Contemporary (2020), ‘FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2020), ‘Printers and Portals’, Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2019), 'Burn at the Lands Brim', Mild Manners Gallery, Sydney (2018), 'Universal Love', Mild Manners Gallery, Sydney (2016), ‘Bits of Pink’, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney (2010), ‘Peace and Universe’, Chalk Horse, Sydney (2009) and ‘Footsies and Dirty Drunkards’ Chalk Horse, Sydney (2008). Her group exhibitions include, ‘Telepathic Pikelet’, Woollahra Gallery, Sydney (2022), 'String Theory', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2013), ‘k.O.M.A Project’, Mild Manners Gallery, Sydney (2013), ‘Hands On’, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, Sydney (2011), ‘Chalk Reindeer’, Chalk Horse, Sydney (2010) and ‘String Theory’ Chalk Horse, Sydney (2007). She was recently announced as a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Sydney (2021) and The 66th Blake Prize, Sydney (2021). The artist currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

“Our feelings can sit heavy but here [in my work] I have tried to explore their transientness; how we drop them in conversation to protect ourselves, suggesting our opinions are changeable”

— JEDDA-DAISY CULLEY,
‘FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS’