Meet Jay Song
A visual artist created in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia during the summer of 2018, Jay Song celebrates diversity, identity and acceptance.
Their artistic practice centres on audience interaction and activation. Potentiality is key. Through installations, ephemeral and temporal spaces filled with created and found objects, audience members complete a work by either engaging or refusing to engage – both equal validations of a work’s existence.
At present, body commodity, body culture and the social constructs we have built around the body as an objectified consumable forms the primary site of Jay’s artistic investigations.
Previously, projects undertaken have focused on broader commodity culture, object-hood and thingness, where the value of our existence is a product of the value we place upon the things we consume, cache and/or discard.
The gristle on the bone…
The fat on the barbie…
Selected Art Education:
2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (First Class), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS.2014
Masters of Curatorial & Museum Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA.2013
Post-Graduate Diploma in Art History, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA.2010-11
Ceramics Associate, JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA.2009
Cultural Exchange to Ceramics Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.2007-9
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
Selected Industry Experience:
2020-21
CONSTANCE ARI Board Member, Hobart, TAS.2020-21
Short Course Instructor (Introduction to Mould Making and Slip Casting), Glazed and Confused, Hobart, SA.2019-
Art and Ceramics Technician, The Friends’ School (HS), North Hobart, TAS.2017-2018
Short Course Instructor (Introduction to Mould Making and Slip Casting), JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA.2015-2018
Project Manager – Exhibitions, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, SA.2014-15
Gallery Assistant, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide, SA.2012
Volunteer Co-Ordinator for Subversive Clay, the Australian Ceramics Triennale 2012, Adelaide, SA.2011
Workshop Team Member, Creative Education Partnerships: Artists in Schools Program at Gilles Street Primary School, Adelaide, SA.2010-11
Ceramics Associate, JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA.2008
Mould-making and Casting Assistant for Dr Carolyn Lewis, Lismore, NSW.2007-8
Surfacing and Finishing Assistant for Lecturer Fiona Fell, Lismore, NSW.
Selected Exhibitions and Awards:
2020-21
Solo – ‘Light Play’, The Packing Room Gallery, Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart, TAS.2019
Participant – ‘Constellations Underground’, presented by CONSTANCE ARI and the Australian Ceramics Triennale 2019, Town Hall Underground, Hobart, TAS.2019
Participant – ‘Triple Penetration’, presented for TasPride 2019, Entrepot Gallery, The University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS.2018
Participant – ‘The Grad Show’, The University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS.2018
Solo – ‘Play Space’, The Ramp, The University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS.2018
Participant – ‘WIP (Works in Progress)’, Entrepot Gallery, The University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS.2017
Participant – ‘SALA Open Studio’, Central Studios Inc., Kent Town, SA.2016
Participant – ‘Hills Edge Clay 2016’, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, SA.2016
Participant – ‘SpringART’, Loreto College, Marryatville, Adelaide, SA.2016
Solo – ‘Bottlescape’, Zeea’s Eatery, Tony & Marks, Glenunga, SA.2016
Participant – ‘Threads of Industry’, Onkaparinga Woollen Mills, Lobethal, SA.2015
Participant – ‘Hills Edge Clay 2015’, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, SA.2015
Participant – ‘Wish you were here!’, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA.2015
Finalist – ‘2015 City of Hobart Art Prize’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS.2015
Finalist – ‘Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award’, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC.2015
Participant – ‘Provenance’, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA.2015
Participant – ‘Pocket Art’, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, SA.2014-15
Participant – ‘Art Images Christmas’, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA.2013
Participant – ‘365 Cups’, Worth Gallery with Fisher Jeffries Gadens, Adelaide, SA.2012-13
Participant – ‘The Wooden Boat Exchange’, Craftsouth, Country Arts SA, and Armfield Slip, SA.2012
September Showcase – ‘110 Stories Tall’, Council of Objects, Adelaide, SA.2012
September Showcase – ‘110 Stories Tall’, FEAST Festival Office, Adelaide, SA.2011-12
Participant – ‘Generate’, JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA.2010
Panel Member – ‘Discussion Forum for Education and the Arts’, Gulgong 2010 Clay Energy Conference, Gulgong, NSW.2010
Award Grant – $5000, The KASKE Visual Arts, Southern Cross University and the John and
Sheilagh Kaske Memorial Fund, Lismore, NSW.2009
Participant – ‘Transit 09’, Southern Cross University Graduation Exhibition, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.2009
Participant – ‘Exhibition of Current Student Work’, The Sky-room Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.2009
Awardee – Endeavour Scholarship Program for Studying Abroad, Lismore, NSW.2008
Curator – ‘body of…’ Exhibition of Student Work, Ballina Regional Gallery, Ballina, NSW.2004
Awardee – ‘The Inaugural Sheet-Metal Association of Australia Sculpture Awards’,
Old Parliament House, Sydney, NSW.