Jessie Lumb

Plasticining the floor at Pom Pom, a new contemporary art space dedicated to engaging children (aged 12 years and under) and their families.

Located in Davoren Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, Pom Pom offers hands-on creative workshops delivered by leading artists, many with an international profile, over the school term and during school holidays.

Pom Pom supports an art making process between children and their families and carers, while offering children enchanting contemporary arts experiences.

And then some become strong in the broken places, bricks repaired with hand coloured Multi-Purpose filler, thoroughfare between St Vincent Street and Nile Street, Port Adelaide as part of FELTmaps.

“The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject.” – James Henry Holland.

And then some become strong in the broken places makes reference to the philosophy behind the Japanese art of ‘kintsugi’ – the belief that when something is damaged and has a history it becomes more beautiful. Chipped and broken bricks in a laneway have been mended with hand coloured Multi-Purpose Filler, with no attempt made to hide the damage. Instead, the repairs themselves are illuminated, celebrating the history of the use of the space and turning ugly breaks into beautiful fixes.

Photos by Steph Fuller

We wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah, 2014, as part of ‘On the Steps’ in the Amphitheatre at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Individual stones transformed into gems with glitter glue and coloured paper. Visitors to the site were encouraged to join in, adding to the intervention and engaging with both myself and their immediate environment.

Experiments, 2013, crayons and melted surf wax combined to make a rainbow drawing tool, Tennyson Beach, Adelaide.

‘Blue sky something’ is an ongoing series of installations created on site over the course of the tarpspace journey.

An attempt to recreate moments of significance from time spent living in Mongolia, blue squares of tarp resembling Tibetan prayer flags were temporarily placed in the Australian landscape creating ephemeral and abstract sculptures as offerings to the sky and space.

Working from a farm in SE Queensland a remote controlled drone was used to take the flags as close to the sky as possible.

Installed near a beach at Byron Bay at twilight

Flying in the wind on the most easterly point in Australia, Cape Byron, NSW.

Threading flags onto rope, Tweed Heads, NSW.

On top of a lookout platform, Cape Hawke, NSW.

By a lake near Boomerang Beach, NSW.

Installed near a canola field in Ouyen, VIC.

In a forest just outside of Launceston, TAS.

Trying to convince grey skies to turn blue on the west coast of Tasmania.

Blowing in the wind at a lookout on the west coast of Tasmania.

This project was supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts SA, and the Helpmann Academy. 

Food colouring in waterfall.

Collaboration with Henry Jock Walker, borne from a debate about rainbows and terrible weather while driving around Tasmania.

Photos by Henry Jock Walker.

Oil pastel on Toyota Hiace.

Photos by Henry Jock Walker.