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Felix Jackson

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Penrith Regional Gallery is proud to present, transcript, the first solo exhibition by local artist Felix Jackson (they/them). Based in St Clair, Felix’s practice is rooted in autobiography, drawing upon lived experience and communicated through sculpture, installation and performance. Their practice draws on familiar materials, reclassifying them through material transformation and a shift in context, prompting audiences to consider their own relationship with the everyday.

transcript is presented in the Loungeroom Community Gallery and comprises a selection of works created over the last two years. For Felix, these works – individually and as a whole – suggest a transcription of their personal and artistic growth and offer an archive of this period of time.

Artistic processes of drawing, marking, casting and recording are employed as strategies to reflect experiences of transition and translation from one state to another – physical, psychological, or otherwise. The exhibition includes hand-cast silicone installation, ceramic sculptures, video performance art as well as a component from the artist’s recent community-engaged project, A Place for Us.

A Place for Us centred on Felix organising a series of creative workshops for local trans youth, and in the process creating a space for expression and connection. The textile work presented in this exhibition serves as a testimonial of these workshops, as well as a memento for audiences to consider the ways and means by which communities form in space.

Most often we transcribe to document significant but fleeting moments, to provide us with a testimonial of exactly what was communicated. But in any process of transcription there is something lost and something gained. The seemingly ephemeral now rendered durable against the passing of time. For Felix, transcript is a witness to moments of personal transformation and an assertion of self.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Felix Jackson (they/them) is an emerging artist and arts worker from Western Sydney. Their work is rooted in autobiography, drawing upon lived experience and communicated through sculpture, installation and performance. Felix’s art practice has evolved into a vital tool for navigating their inner thoughts and the external realities. Their work serves as a mirror for introspection, as they grapple with questions surrounding their own identity and the factors that have shaped it. They are particularly interested in using their body as a tool and documenting movement as an inner need to provide proof of their existence.

Felix was a participant in the inaugural Ancher Points Emerging Artist Initiative at Penrith Regional Gallery in 2023. Their work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne including the bentART exhibition, Rex Livingston Art + Objects, Katoomba (overall bentART winner and curators award 2024); and The Frankenstein Show, Smith + Gertrude, Fitzroy, 2024.

transcript is supported by Penrith City Council, Penrith Performing & Visual Arts, the NSW Government through Create NSW, and TLE Electricals.