Juz Kitson lures her audience into an opulent garden and casts them out renewed: an encounter with her sublime installations provokes deeply affective responses, suggesting a form of contemporary shamanism at play within the gallery.
Kitson’s talismanic objects – memento mori meets animist fetish – combine the dexterous arts of ceramics, textiles and drawing with a strong sense of materialism and process.
Bound with mystique and feminine power, Kitson’s suspended chimeras become both captivating and unnerving, touching gently on a raw, surrealist nerve.
Sydney born Kitson is a serial artist in residence who divides her time between Australia (where the bush is a rich hunting ground) and Jingdezhen, the “porcelain capital” of China.
While completing Honours in ceramics at the National Art School, Kitson’s “Formations of Silence” was acquired by David Walsh for his Museum of Old and New in Tasmania. Featured in The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Primavera (2013) and Art Dubai (2014), she has been selected for the forthcoming Adelaide Biennial (2016).
Images courtesy of Juz Kitson
