Narelle Jubelin

Narelle Jubelin is famous for her petit-point renditions of heavily charged photographs that allow her to explore historical lines that interconnect location and history. She is interested in the way objects travel and translate. Thus, every detail in her work is important; the display, the frame and the site, including the journeys the work itself makes, which accrue meaning with each new display. Her technique slows down the process of assimilating the image through the intricate work of sewing and a display that forces the spectator to engage with the intimacy of scale.

She has exhibited widely in the last twenty years, from Aperto in the 1990 Venice Biennale, the Hayward Gallery in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago. She has had solo shows at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Heide Museum in Melbourne, Casa Encendida in Madrid, and Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, among other institutions.

Courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary