JAH

posted by Amber Weaver July 11, 2018

Australian-born and based in Sydney, JAH, also known as Judith Harvey, is an award-winning emerging artist, and now an official People of Print Member. JAH completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales and is on the cusp of completing her Honours. JAH recently received the 2018 New South Wales, Royal Agricultural Society Medallion for Excellence in Printmaking, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in places like Xi’an, China. Notably, her work is currently featured alongside thirteen emerging student printmakers from seven leading Australian universities in plate_tone, curated by the Print Council of Australia in the Collins Street Gallery, Melbourne.

Practising under the pseudonym of JAH, this artist is one to watch, especially if you admire screen-printing, dedication to detail and the delineation of abstractions. JAH is a post mediumistic conceptual artist, whose practice is founded upon the idea of pushing mediums to their extremes. The pride of JAH’s practice is her hand-printed high stencil count serigraphs, exhibiting a devout love for the mechanics behind the makings of a perfectly registered silkscreen print. However, JAH’s practice is trans-disciplinarily while remaining highly technical – producing distinctive intaglio etchings, unorthodox ceramics and encaustic prints, as well as unobtrusive contentious drawings. In conjunction with these mediums, JAH’s conceptual practice spans from criticizing the taboos that surround the relationships between artists and institutions, to satirically juxtaposing societal concerns but is not limited to these. Notably, the crux of her conceptual pursuit resides in the self-directed exploration of the potential in sound transposition.

JAH meticulously screen prints the visual of sound, creating what has been coined as ‘Visual Transpositions’. Each one of these ‘Visual Transposition’s’ minutely delineates the inherent effect of a composer’s arrangement upon the audience’s sensory experience. This theorem is established upon the affinity between the elements fundamental to music and fine art. The establishing of this has led to the detailing of a complex taxonomy which interprets the obvious and the minutely specific elements of music, into their comparable visual idiosyncrasies. This becomes most evident through JAH’s cross-print Action Analysis Series affiliated with the Visual Transposition premise.

JAH aims to continually experiment with and develop her ‘Visual Transposition’ premise, engaging with symphonies and pre-digitalisation scores, and potentially recorded improvisation performances exhibited live. In addition to this, Harvey is currently planning to connect with various European printmakers and emerging composers to expand her practice. Detail-orientated, ambitious and with a knack for experimentation, JAH’s future is bright as she aims to extensively invest in her practice in the completion of her studies.

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