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Read MoreWhat is an Art Exhibition?
What is an art exhibition? This is a question you might find yourself asking if you are new to visiting art exhibitions at galleries, or museums; I will explain what an art exhibition is in this blog post
Read MoreGrand National Fibres Exhibition
The Grand National Fibres Exhibition is a yearly exhibition that has a different theme each year. Learn more about it here.
Read MoreOutdoor Art Installation
From Sep 30, 2023 to Nov 15, 2023 I participated in the Terrain Biennale which is an outdoor art installation. I showed my piece “Trail” which is a 20 foot long arm-knitted lace installation that extended from my porch drooping onto the ground. To learn more about this outdoor art installation- keep reading!
Outdoor Art Installation
Here is the website to learn more about the Terrain Biennale: https://terrainexhibitions.org/
Here is what Terrain Biennale says about the exhibition/outdoor art installations: Terrain Biennial is a grassroots public art festival that brings artists and neighbors together to put public art on the front lawns (and porches, windows, and rooftops, too!) of neighborhoods across the world.
Artists and curators collaborated with hosts to produce public art installations (think sculptures, paintings, projections, flags, yarn art, you name it!) outside their homes (and other unexpected spots!).
You can check out my installation here: https://terrainexhibitions.org/tb23-huntsville-on
How to Participate in the Outdoor Art Installation of Terrain Biennale:
Make sure you apply. I suggest following them on Instagram to stay connected and know when you should apply. Then you need to find a host to agree to have your art installed. Then you install your art and take a photo of it so it can be added on the Terrain Biennale website. When choosing a piece to apply with you want to think about a piece that will be able to withstand weather conditions for a month and a half.
I chose to submit the piece “Trail” because I knew that it could withstand rain and even snow. Yes, sometimes it snows in Canada early! I also like the way that it drapes like a long lace curtain. I am thinking about making this piece longer. Should I? Let me know in the comments!
To read more about my piece “Trail” click here!
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Art Competition London
Learn about there competition London Ontario that I participated in.
Read MorePatched Exhibition
For the month of March and April 2022 I will be displaying my work Patched at the Kitchener Public Library in their gallery on the lower floor. This will be a two-person exhibition along with another artist on the opposing wall.
I will be displaying 20 framed Patched installations and some of my nature inspired poems.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?
featuring two separate exploratory photography exhibits with accompanying poetry by artists Annette Dekker & Jackie Partridge
In celebration of Poetry Month: https://poets.ca/npm/ April 2022
Hello Shadow
Artist: Annette Dekker
Enraged by Shadow’s relentless stalking
The woman behind the camera
turns
shoots
captures the prowler – live,
smirking at her strutting
on a seabed of bleached eelgrass . . .
Annette Dekker is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist. She is fascinated by the capacity of people to heal and to explore their inner worlds. Annette finds joy in photography and writing and sometimes uses these mediums to better understand herself. She surprised herself when the outcome of such exploration became an exhibition. She shares this work in the hope that it inspires others to become acquainted with their own Shadows.
Patched
Artist: Jackie Partridge
I feel for places.
We walk all over them.
We stomp on them.
We forget about them.
Rarely do we visit.
And when we do –
We drop by unannounced.
Coming from a small town and family heritage of farming, Jackie Partridge has visually seen the land developing over time. She has seen and felt both the impacts of climate change and urbanization within her community.
As a mixed media artist, she is interested in expressing the rural landscape in an abstract and poetic way through drawings and installations.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places she has been) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
She asks, ‘Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?’
http://www.jackiepartridge.com/work#/patched/
The Kitchener Public Library is located 85 Queen Street North
Kitchener ON N2H 2H1
Phone: 519-743-0271
The Patched exhibition is on til the end of April, 2022. If you have a chance to see it please share photos on social media by tagging me @jackiepartridge_ or use the #patchedproject.
Purchase my book Patched here -that contains poetry and photographs.
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Show.21
Learn about the exhibition show.21 in Cambridge Art Galleries.
Read MoreExhibition at Show.21
From November 22 until February 27, 2022 I will have my work Precariously Perched on display at Cambridge Art Galleries- at Queen's Square Gallery as part of their group juried exhibition for emerging artists.
This was the first paid CARFAC fee exhibition I took part in and I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to exhibit my artwork and to be paid for it. Paid exhibitions help allow artists to be valued for their work of making the work, delivering and installing the work, picking up the work and advertising the work like the video I created below.
You can check out their link to see more information
I will be showing art with: Olivia Brouwer, Lupita Guerrero, Anahí González, Anne Hamilton, Brubey Hu, Abby Nowakowski, Lauren Prousky, Brenda Mabel Reid, Racquel Rowe, and Ahmri Vandeborne.
See a video about the installation below:
About Show.21 in Cambridge
Established in 2005, Cambridge Art Galleries’ biannual exhibition SHOW presents the work of emerging artists based in Ontario. Selected from an open call of submissions, SHOW.21 presents the work of eleven artists with connections to Waterloo Region and surrounding areas.
Here is the digital exhibition brochure
About Precariously Perched by Jackie Partridge
Precariously Perched is a site-specific installation that uses tiny pins and balances twisted strands of maps on the pins. You can see and read more about the project here!
Precariously Perched resembles a walk or a horizon line. Some twisted strands of maps rest on pins while others fall to the floor signaling a passage of time. In this exhibition, I have twisted strands of maps and pins wrapping around a column by the window and then they start at the wall near the top and decline down like a mountain towards the bottom of the wall.
Precariously Perched by Jackie Partridge - installation in Montreal - see the exhibition in Cambridge by visiting Cambridge Art Galleries.
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Read MoreArt News Update
Here is my art news update. With a new season it is time to share a new update about my art practice. There has been a lot going on in both my personal life with starting a new full-time teaching job at a private Montessori school and with upcoming opportunities involving my art. Read about some recent art updates below!
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Exhibition
From October 2-January 17, 2021 you can view my art at the Orillia Museum of Art and History in Orillia, ON at the “Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed.”
I have a piece called Establishing Roots which is an altered hand-cut atlas displayed on a pedestal with white gloves. The exhibition is a juried exhibition showcasing the work of a variety of artists in all mediums whose work focuses on the theme of the landscape in some way.
Jackie Partridge -artwork, hand cut atlas
Publication Features
Patched (select photographs) will appear in Tiny Spoon Ecology (Upcoming)
My work Remnants (photographs) is now available in Tiny Spoon Memory (Spring Issue No. 4) p. 57-59.
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Group Exhibition at the O Gallery, 2020
Check out a group exhibition for artist Jackie Partridge. To see my textile artwork and handmade paper art.
Rainbow Field 6
CA$120.00
I am excited to announce that I am a part of a group of two other artists showing exhibitions at the O Gallery on 44 Gaukel St. in Kitchener, ON, Canada.
I will be showing work I have curated for a theme of Fields. This work includes past work of my hand dyed, hand embroidered dish cloths that are beautifully framed and work of my sewn thread line drawings embedded in abaca sheets of handmade paper that are for sale.
Fields is an abstract representation of aerial views of farmlands. I have grown up close to farming and fields and have visually seen the landscape change over time and become more developed.
The exhibition is on view from January 15-March 6, 2020.
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Friends and Lovers: Group Exhibition at Button Factory Arts, 2020
Friends and Lovers Group Exhibition at Button Factory Arts in Waterloo, ON
Read MoreBirds Adapted: for Flight or Fancy - Juried Exhibition 2019
For the fall, I will be participating in a group art exhibition curated by Teresa Seaton at the Teresa Seaton Gallery in Burlington, Ontario. You can see the details of the exhibition as well as my art in the exhibition’s catalogue below. See artwork from myself - Jackie Partridge and other local artists
Birds Adapted: for Flight or Fancy is a juried exhibition I am a part of that is at the Teresa Seaton Gallery in Burlington, ON from Aug. 14-Oct. 26, 2019.
Here is a page about my installation Nestled that was a part of the group exhibition catalogue.
In this exhibition I am displaying my installation Nestled made from twisted map paper to resemble a nest or a home. I have exhibited Nestled before on the floor. This will be the first time exhibiting Nestled up high. I was excited to present the artwork this way because I think it will look more like a nest. This piece is very textured as strands of twisted map paper interweave together. What I like about this piece is that it can transform depending where it is installed. I can keep twisting map paper and add to the size of this artwork. I will have some pieces of map paper on the floor as well to invite viewers to look up. This installation is also related to the installation Precariously Perched where I have strands of twisted maps that balance on tiny pins and nails, resting in a fragile state against the wall.
In my art practice, I love working with the same materials and reworking them to make new art installations.
To learn more about this project you can take a look at it here!
Here is a page about my installation Nestled that was a part of the group exhibition catalogue.
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