Jemima Parker

My work captures moments in time and explores my experience of place, using photography and screen printing processes. Images are drawn from my local surrounds, including my childhood home on the far south coast of Australia and my current home in Canberra; as well as recent travels further afield: Portland, Victoria, the southern United States and Oahu, Hawaii. Images are first captured on my phone, recording fleeting moments. I cut down paper, mix inks and hand print, bringing the works slowly to life, a direct contrast to today's instantly posted image. By altering the image and reimaging it as a screen print, I shift the original context, leading the viewer to question the time and place in which it was created. Soft, faded backgrounds & warm, brown black for the images themselves, suggest these contemporary scenes are in fact of a bygone time, evoking nostalgia.

Jemima Parker is a Canberra based visual artist working across disciplines. Interested in her environment, and the often unobserved beauty that is present in the everyday, she documents this through repetitive, almost meditative processes of printing, drawing and stitching. Recent works explore moments of time and experience of place, through photography and screen printing.

Jemima has exhibited widely throughout Australia and abroad, and her work is held in a number of private
collections. She regularly teaches screen printing on both paper and fabric, including a Summer School in Surface Design and Screen Printing at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA.

In 2017, Jemima was  shortlisted for the prestigious Fremantle Print Award. In 2020, she was selected for the Screen on Paper, (Online International Printmaking Exhibition), at Megalo Print Studio & Gallery, Canberra. In 2021, she recently completed “Writing Picture Books” at the Australian  Writers’ Centre.

In 2022, Gallery of Small Things celebrated its 5th birthday and invited the original artists to participate in an exhibition, The Originals. Jemima showcased new limited editions from her time participating in the Bundian Way Arts Exchange. She wove two large works encased in a hoop as well as a small one. They were made with cotton thread (hand-dyed with eucalyptus leaves collected on Ngunnawal Ngambri country) and recycled linen.