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This short film profiles artist Jessie Stanley and her recent works Human/Nature - a series of site-responsive works in public space that traced the deep time origins of Kyneton Botanic Gardens, presented at Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial 2018.

Credits
Produced by Jessica Dean and Marc Eiden
Camera: Marc Eiden @marceiden 
Music: The Artificial Limb @artificial_limb
Editing: Jessica Dean @westartnow
Starring: Charlie the wonder dog 
'Human/Nature', Jessie Stanley 2018

Jessie Stanley is a Visual Artist and Designer based in Central Victoria, Australia. 

Her practice embraces the congruence of art in public space and graphic design as platforms for affecting the way meaning is produced within society. Through typography, mapping, projection, and narrative, Stanley creates ephemeral works about place that contextualise our human experience within deep time and interstellar space. Works are site responsive and developed through a process of historiographic and geographic research, underpinned by scientific theory to unearth the forces that shape place. Drawing on the physical laws and properties of the natural world, Stanley creates scenarios for audiences to consider the sublime relationship we have with our environment.

Stanley’s design/visual art projects have received international recognition; awards include the Type Directors Club of New York, Premiers Design Awards, and Australian Graphic Design Association, and have been exhibited internationally. As her practice has evolved into visual art, Stanley has exhibited in solo exhibitions including ‘Everything is From Nothing’, Stockroom Gallery 2011; group exhibitions including ‘The View From Here’, Anita Traverso Gallery 2015; was a finalist in Banyule Works on Paper Awards 2015; and created the large scale site specific installation ‘The Distance Between You and Me’ for Castlemaine State Festival 2015. Recent works include projections for White Night 2017, and Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2017. Her illuminated sculpture ‘Spectrum’ commissioned by RMIT for New Academic Street was unveiled in September 2017. Stanley recently completed a major body of works as Artist in Residence at Kyneton Botanic Gardens, commissioned by Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial 2018.  

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