Jahnne Pasco-White

Jahnne Pasco-White’s painting practice is characterised by a sense of ongoing entanglement: bringing a distillation of conceptual research (from disciplines including ecology, feminism, and the field of human relations) into play with a material process that includes methods such as natural dying, staining, assembling, drawing, painting, collage and sewing. Pasco-White’s processes draw on materials that have flowed in and out of use and disuse such as recycled paintings, clothes, sheets, grasses, leaves, fruits, spices, and food scraps as well as more traditional paint mediums. Through these varied approaches to painting and their installation, Pasco-White explores human-nature entanglements of the sustaining, contaminating and messy ecosystems that both human and more-than-human bodies inhabit and contribute.

Pasco-White was the winner of the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in 2019, and a finalist in the 2019 Ramsay Art Prize. She was the recipient of a 2018 Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and was awarded a Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Painting 2018-20. Pasco-White has completed residencies in Germany, Italy, Iceland, New Zealand, and was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary, 2018-20. The artist has been included in group exhibitions recently at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Gertrude Contemporary, Buxton Contemporary, Bendigo Art Gallery, La Trobe Art Institute, Sydney College of the Arts, The Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2020 the monograph Jahnne Pasco-White: Kin was published jointly by Art Ink and Unlikely, which includes a dozen essayists who interrogate the limits and possibilities of kinship.