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Jasper Knight
Born 1978. Lives and works in Sydney.
In recent years Knight's reputation has grown and he is now considered one of the hottest young emerging artists working in Australia today.
In 2002-2003 Jasper Knight completed a Master of Arts (majoring
in painting and drawing) at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Sydney.
In recent years Knight's reputation has grown, and he is now
considered one of the hottest young emerging artists working in
Australia today.
Questioning the boundaries between high art and the amateur or
postcard photo, Knight also blurs distinctions between
sculpture and painting. Works are constructed of plywood,
perspex, cardboard boxes, old signs, found plastic tiles and sheets
- the surfaces and materials having their own histories. These
histories often bear a direct relation to the content of the work.
For example, Knight's series based on ports was constructed, in
part, from the detritus left behind on the wharves.
Spatially, the works are varied: they privilege the surface, but
at the same time play upon traditional perspective. Recent
work continues to explore this relationship between material and
subject, between constructed object and painted surface, in a more
abstract way. The subject matter, from wharves to cars, from chairs
to landscape, helps explore these binary concerns and is treated in
a highly architectural and linear way.
Knight has been selected as an Archibald Finalist from
2005-7, 2009-10 and a finalist in The Wynne Prize in
2005-6. He has also been a finalist in the Blake Prize, the
ABN-Amro Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Helen Lempriere Prize and
the Brett Whiteley Prize. Since 2007, Knight has held solo
shows in Berlin, Paris, London and Hong Kong. In 2009, he had a
second solo exhibition in London.
