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About
“I want to use art to convey ideas of sustainability and inspire an environmental conscience through Imagination, beauty and illumination.”
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Since studying fine art in the city I’ve been acutely aware of the immense amount of resourses being used to maintain our modern human existence. Our societies aspire to maintain the most comfortable way of life as possible at the expense of our long-term sustainability for not only us, but for many creatures on the planet. In our western world we really do live in a time of excess.
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Walking around inner-city streets where factories displayed dumpster bin after dumpster bin full of industrial discards, I found materials so plentiful. I could play with them to make art, free from the anxiety and guilt I would feel about using new resources and materials. It just made absolute sense. Although over the years I have made many public art works where I’ve had to use new materials, I have continued to maintain an interest and passion for making use of waste and off cuts to create artworks. I love to implore my imagination to see how I can transform them into artworks that disguise their original purpose and form. To succeed in doing this is an affirmation that we as a society can transform the system we live in to one that is more harmonious and in balance with nature and the planet that sustains us.
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Biography
J9 Stanton trained in Melbourne at RMIT and Victorian College of the Arts in both painting and sculpture in the late 80’s. Following this, she shared studio space and collaborated on many public art works with other artists at Down Street Studios in Melbourne.
After spending a couple of years in the late 90’s travelling Australia and being involved with various activist groups, J9 Stanton arrived in Mbantua (Alice Springs) on Arrernte country, central Australia. Her artwork incorporates a range of platforms including painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video.
Since living in central Australia J9 has been a recipient of various grants from different Northern Territory funding bodies, and many awards in the region. She also has been commissioned by her local council and other organizations for many public art sculpture installations. She has participated in the Alice prize and had her work acquired by The Araluan cultural centre and Deakin University.
Since 2004, J9 has been working part time with Yarranty Arltere artists at Larapinta Valley, originally as an arts trainer and then facilitator. She has been integral in developing the niche practice of soft sculpture that has matured into a sustainable social enterprise for members of that community.
J9 continues to develop her own work while maintaining her investment in the success of local Aboriginal artists.
Her artistic passion lies in finding ways to comment on socio political and environmental issues. She often employs dicotomías as the lens in which she views and expresses her world.
Although having created many artworks in hard steel and concrete, in the past few years her mediums have taken a softer direction.
By transforming discarded materials through manipulation and placement, J9 intrigues audiences when presenting them in unpredictable ways.
J9’s current work explores a merging of 2d and 3d practices, creating wall art that welds sculpture to painting, as well as drawing with sculpture and installations. In an abstract 2/3-dimensional format, she is focusing on the spirituality and deep ecology in relation to the effects of climate change on land and sea scape.
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Born Melbourne, Australia 1966
Based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Education
1991 Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1987 Bachelor of Fine Art Painting, RMIT University, Melbourne
Awards
2024 Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Art award, Katherine, NT
2024 3rd place in the Northern Territory Art Award art award, Darwin.
2024 Port Lincoln Sculpture prize
2019 Wearable Arts Award for Natural Fibre, Alice Springs
2016 Advocate Art Award, Central Australian Arts Society
2014 The Lofty Award, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2005 Wearable Arts Award for Natural Fibre, Alice Springs
Grants
2023 Professional Development Grant, Arts NT
2017 Arts Development Grant, Arts NT
2009 Arts Development Grant, Arts NT
2005 Community Benefit Fund, Northern Territory Government
2004 Community Workshop Grant, Northern Territory Government
2003 Community Workshop Grant, Northern Territory Government
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Folding Time, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs
2021 Waterscapes, The Roastery, Alice Springs
2021 Shifting Currents, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2021 Phytoplankton Blooming, The Bakery, Alice Springs
2016 Feminising the Power Tool, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2009 Head Miles, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2003 Desert Rain, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025. The Dobell drawing prize, National Art School, NSW
2024 Exploration Emerging Artists, Flinders Lane Gallery
2024 The Alice Art Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2023 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award, Manly Gallery, Sydney
2023 The Lethbridge Landscape Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane
2020 The Alice Art Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2018 The Alice Art Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2017 The Deakin Small Sculpture Award, Deakin Art Gallery, Melbourne
1992-2018 Group exhibitions, Melbourne, Alice Springs, and Darwin
Residencies
1996 San Migel De Alende, Mexico
2021 Watch This Space, Alice Springs
Commissions
2019 Alice Springs Community Garden Gate, Old East Side
2018 Public Art Sculpture, Alice Springs Desert Park
2016 Historical Flood Marker, Alice Springs Town Council
2016 Short listed, Cemetery Memorial Design, Alice Springs
2013 The Recyculator, Alice Springs Town Council
2008 Public Sculpture Installation, Great Southern Railway, Alice Springs
2008-2018 Main Stage Installations, Wide Open Spaces Festival, Alice Springs
2005 Public Art Sculpture, Snow Kenna Park, Alice Springs Town Council
Collections
2017 Deakin University, Melbourne
2016 Araluen Art Gallery, Alice Springs
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