Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial 2024 Digital Gallery
Jay Jermyn
b. 1991 Tweed Heads NSW, lives Melbourne VIC
The Seen, 2024
Sculpture Left
sand cast aluminium, investment cast aluminium, stainless steel, bronze borosilicate glass, LED, coaxial cable, acrylic
Sculpture Centre
Veh 2024
sand cast aluminium, investment cast aluminium, stainless steel, bronze borosilicate glass, LED, coaxial cable, acrylic
Sculpture Right
Guardian Sitael 2024
sand cast aluminium, investment cast aluminium, stainless steel, bronze borosilicate glass, LED, coaxial cable, acrylic
Commissioned for Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial
Image courtesy of HOTA, Home of the Arts
Artist Statement
Jay Jermyn's The Seen, is a ritual space, home to a dream-conjured deity, a mother open and poised for embrace. Here she is surrounded by her guardians, adorned with shield-like features that suggest both protection and menace.
Influenced by science fiction, surrealism, and occult sigils they are Illuminated by custom-blown glass tubes and are crafted using centuries-old sand casting techniques combined with contemporary 3D-printed methods, in aluminium and bronze.
About the Artist
Jay Jermyn is an industrial designer, artist and electrician. His practice proposes new ways of looking at the notions of self and its fragmentations within the contexts of nature, music, ritual and the built environment.
Jermyn’s experimental lighting and object works are an expression of his world, where energy, natural elements, digital devices, instruments, light and materials synthesise in creative functional design compositions. Jermyn has exhibited his work at Salone Del Mobile, Milan Design Week (2024) Melbourne design Week (2022,23); Brisbane Art and Design Festival (2021); Oigall Projects, Melbourne (2021). In 2022 he was the artist in residence at Home of the Arts, Gold Coast (HOTA), and launched design brand Objects For Thought (OFT) with co-designer and collaborator C. J. Anderson.
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