Adelaide-based painter and muralist Jasmine Crisp’s practice features local figures, spaces, and belongings from her lived experience – combined to create playful genre paintings of the imagined familiar that highlight the way in which contemporary sociopolitical concerns impact individuals.
Through colourful, hyper-detailed, and intricate paintings, conventions of still life and portraiture are enlivened with intriguing narrative elements; the artist’s often maximalist scenes inserting long-established symbols into domestic or nostalgic versions of the present – forming reimagined landscapes of felt human experience, depicting people who have found themselves caught between competing, often contradictory forces.
Adelaide Central Gallery
10 February to 20 March 2026
South Australia
Jasmine Crisp, He said the world made him lose his keys, 2025, oil on canvas
Courtesy the artist and Adelaide Central Gallery, South Australia
