Janenne Eaton’s practice incorporates painting, drawing, photography, installation and video. Researching archaeological, historical and contemporary records, the artist explores how we identify in the present with imprints from the past, to understand something of the movement of peoples across time and space and the traces of human agency which record social, cultural and technological change.
Janenne Eaton, Billabong. 2022, oil on canvas, 132 x 97cm. Courtesy the artist and Nancy Sever Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
Through the use of historical markers, textual symbols and digitalised elements embedded in cyber screen-based imaging, Eaton’s works highlight how a virtual language of sign systems mediates our day-to-day experience of the tangible world. Gathering together some of the key signifiers of our consumer-led, info-centric society, her works explore how we live within an ever-evolving, digital “ecology,” and the challenges inherent in our changing relationship to time, space and place.
Nancy Sever Gallery
11 December 2022 to 29 January 2023
Australian Capital Territory
