Artist Jenifer Corker Selected To Show As Part Of The Discerning Eye Exhibition
Multi-disciplinary artist and frequent SHOWstudio collaborator Jenifer Corker has been selected to show work in The Discerning Eye 2019 exhibition. Held since 1990, the highly respected annual group show includes six artists selected by a six-person strong committee of experts from across the art world, with each artist exhibiting a selection of their own small works entirely at their choosing. The show's unique curation places lesser-known artists alongside their internationally renowned contemporaries giving them unprecedented exposure.
The body of works Corker has chosen to present at The Discerning Eye use text and illustration to explore a conversation about identity and confessional art. The words 'I am a spiritual person' and 'let sleeping dogs lie' read below free-hand illustrations of pairs of intertwined dogs and anatomical heads facing towards one another, drawn using a sewing machine on various stretched fabrics. Another work is presented in the style of a word search where letters in a grid are revealed by the light which comes through small holes punched into the taut surface, leaving the viewer to decipher the title 'Can One Ever Be A Good Mother And A Great Artist?'
Corker had themes of smoke and mirrors in mind when producing the works she is exhibiting at The Discerning Eye. Thinking about what can be hidden and revealed, the multi-disciplinary artist took inspiration from 17th and 18th century pole screens which were traditionally placed in front of fires to shield people's faces from the direct heat. Corker explored artifice as she thought about the thick cosmetics women and men would have been wearing in this period as they sat by the fire, prone to run down the wearer's face when hot due to the unstable ingredients such as wax, fat, lead chalk and arsenic.
ING The Discerning Eye Exhibition runs 14-24 November 2019 and entry is free.