Jess Hall is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, drawing and embroidery. The work uses botanical, cellular and anatomical imagery, reclaiming historically feminine practices like embroidery and watercolour painting. Exploring the space between art and craft, and the use of intensive hand-made processes, the embroideries and works on paper use hybrid forms to articulate an imaginary science. Imagined life forms are created from the influence of Australian and European flora, producing hybrid, biomorphic shapes that are joined together through repetition and pattern. The work posits about the environment and climate change by exploring hybridity of flora and looking at botanicals on a cellular level.
Works on Paper
Works on paper are made using ink, watercolour and sometimes embroidery on watercolour paper. The work explores liminal spaces between art and craft and between art and science; looking to these influences to explore tactility and materiality.
Embroideries
Painting/embroidery works are made by hand painting dye onto linen and using embroidery as a drawing technique, featuring backstitch, French knots, split stitch, brick stitch, bullion stitch, turkey rug stitch, wheat stitch and rope stitch.
