Jasmin Smith
Highly Commended
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Jasmin Smith, 'Forgotten mourners', 2022, Watercolour and charcoal on paper, 171cm x 113.5cm, Image Courtesy: the artist.
Artist statement
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow.
A husband who loses a wife is called a widower.
A child who loses his parents is called an orphan.
There is no word for a parent who loses a child.
– Jay Neugeboren – An Orphan’s Tale – 1976
'Forgotten mourners' is a charcoal and watercolour drawing on paper which homages inarticulable griefs. The entangled and spiralling bodies of a mother and her two children traverse the line between reality and chaos and occupy a temporally idiosyncratic space defined by trauma and loss.
Follow Jasmin on Instagram @jasminsmith_art
Acknowledgement of Country
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