"I am interested in the moment when an image points us towards a world that we recognize, firmly rooted in the here and now, but not quite real, giving us a history of the present as a dream-like architecture built from the tessellations of recurrent memories and fragile materials."
Jenny Robinson
Robinson isolates the frameworks of built environments – steel skeletons, systems and geometries that underpin the architectures by which we navigate place. Distilled to essential lines and rhythms, structures are etched, inked printed and imprinted to plate, paper, and memory through the printmaking process.
In Robinson’s work, the soft durability of papers such as gampi, renowned for its strength and archival resistance, bear images of infrastructure already drifting into decline. It is a material paradox – the fragile substrate will outlast the indestructible product of human endeavour.
Robinson traces this gradual unravelling as part of the city’s ongoing life cycle and her memory of the places she inhabits. Drawing from observation and memory, her dream like spaces merge residues of the familiar with the unknown, shifting, dissolving, and reforming, in transformations both stoic and vulnerable in their scale and ephemerality.
Through precise execution and an attuned sensitivity to material, Robinson’s prints reflect on the impermanence of form, both as a physical marker of place and a record shaped by time, movement, and memory.
Jenny Robinson will give an artist talk on 7 May at 6:60pm at the gallery before the exhibition closes.
Please register your interest - office@ninefathomdeep.co.nz
