Jeremy Blincoe

A porous body floating amidst a sea of relations, shapeshifting one little death at a time; Speculative Futures contemplates what life might become in future or parallel worlds, both human and non-human, terrestrial and alien.

Jeremy Blincoe graduated from a Masters of Contemporary Art at the VCA in 2020. Since 2006 he has held fifteen solo exhibitions in Australia, Korea, Switzerland, and New Zealand. He has won prestigious prizes including the Fiona Myer Award at VCA (2020), Brisbane Art Prize (2017), Fisher Ghost Arts Prize (2017), Kaipara Wallace Arts Trust Award (2016), and has work in the collection of Gippsland Art Gallery & Pah Homestead.

This body of work represents the bodily form in flux in all its wonderful and monstrous fragility. The past, present and a speculative future are crumpled together through autopoietic works that slowly build by accretion so that they may morph and self-create, generating their own meaning.

Drawing on the strange and the eerie, the work seeks to imagine bodies that rupture our familiar taxonomies. The chimeric form, poised between insect and ribcage, glints with mirror-polished stainless steel, reflecting its environment as if absorbing and refracting new possibilities of being.

Devoid of flesh yet suggestive of life, the skeletal structure rests on slender walnut legs, balancing between collapse and motion. It is both relic and prophecy, a speculative anatomy gesturing toward the evolving thresholds of material, body and consciousness.