Janette Gay
I am a visual and media artist working between Sydney and Adelaide.
By experimenting with glass etching, photography and video digital technology, as well as performance I aim to represent issues related to how the architectural space of the urban landscape can limit and confine urban living. My video work mainly focuses on creating fictitious worlds from the maze of city architecture around us.
Urban environments, with their grid-like arrangements and white walls can serve to structure space and isolate individuals. Inside these environments, by incorporating performance into my videos and paintings I am interested in representing how individuals deal with the intimacy of urban apartment space.
CV summary
Educational background
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), National Arts School, Darlinghurst, New South Head (NSW), completed December 2013
Bachelor of Education, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia (SA), major in arts education, completed February 1992
Exhibitions
We Made It, Group Show, West Gallery, Thebarton, SA, 2017
Little works, Worth Gallery, Kent Town, SA, 2016
Christmas show, Adelaide Oval exhibition, 2016
Spaces, Fisher Jeffries Gallery, Adelaide, 2015
City Grid solo SALA show, The Barn, Adelaide, August 2015
HellO Arts Festival, Project 107, redfern, February 2015
Spaces, Sydney College of the Arts, December, 2014
MORPHOS Sustainable Empires, Venice, June 2014
Pixel of Identity, Buenos Aires, May 2014
National Art School (NAS) post graduate exhibition, Darlinghurst, October/November 2013
NAS Digital and Video Forum exhibition, NAS, October 2013
Stairwell Gallery, NAS Painting exhibition, Darlinghurst, September 2013
John Olsen drawing exhibition, shortlisted, NAS, Darlinghurst, December 2012
NAS Graduate Show, Darlinghurst, November / December 2012
NAS Painting Grid exhibition, Darlinghurst, June 2012
e-Merge exhibition, Sofitel Hotel, Sydney, May 2012
Projects
Performer with Mel O'Callaghan performance; and collage workshop collaborator with Deborah Kelly's No Human Being is Illegal - In All Our Glory, Sydney Biennale, January - June 2014
Intern, NAS Drawing Week, Reservoir, Paddington and Art Gallery of NSW, February 2013 and 2014
Coordinator, NAS Digital and Video Network, July 2013 - current
Volunteer writer with online 'arts interview' website, 2012
Arts coordinator, National Women's Health Conference, 2001