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Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 50 x 70 x 50 cm
Image Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Unique work
Collage sits at the centre of Jazz Grant’s practice, both as a process and as a way of thinking. Fragmenting images and removing them from their original contexts allows Grant to reconsider archival documents, found photographs, botanical imagery, and other visual material with historical associations. By bringing these fragments together, Grant creates new relationships between images that might otherwise remain separate. The resulting works occupy a space between recognition and uncertainty, where familiar images can acquire unfamiliar meanings. Grant’s work is shaped by an interest in the ways histories are recorded, preserved, and reconstructed. She is particularly drawn to the gaps within historical narratives: what is left out, what is misremembered, and what changes as it is passed between different forms of documentation. Screen printing has become an important extension of this process. Working with paper and wood has introduced a physical unpredictability that is central to how the work develops. On wood, the grain interrupts the printed image, altering its surface and sometimes obscuring or distorting elements of the original photograph. Grant is interested in these moments where the material resists control and becomes part of the image-making process. Sculpture has developed from this same logic, allowing collage to move beyond the picture plane and into physical space. Grant’s sculptural works can be assembled, dismantled, and rearranged, making their structure as changeable as the images they contain.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 50 x 70 x 50 cm
Image Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Unique work
Collage sits at the centre of Jazz Grant’s practice, both as a process and as a way of thinking. Fragmenting images and removing them from their original contexts allows Grant to reconsider archival documents, found photographs, botanical imagery, and other visual material with historical associations. By bringing these fragments together, Grant creates new relationships between images that might otherwise remain separate. The resulting works occupy a space between recognition and uncertainty, where familiar images can acquire unfamiliar meanings. Grant’s work is shaped by an interest in the ways histories are recorded, preserved, and reconstructed. She is particularly drawn to the gaps within historical narratives: what is left out, what is misremembered, and what changes as it is passed between different forms of documentation. Screen printing has become an important extension of this process. Working with paper and wood has introduced a physical unpredictability that is central to how the work develops. On wood, the grain interrupts the printed image, altering its surface and sometimes obscuring or distorting elements of the original photograph. Grant is interested in these moments where the material resists control and becomes part of the image-making process. Sculpture has developed from this same logic, allowing collage to move beyond the picture plane and into physical space. Grant’s sculptural works can be assembled, dismantled, and rearranged, making their structure as changeable as the images they contain.
