Sam Jinks

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Sam Jinks (* 1973 in Bendigo ) is an Australian visual artist known for his realistic sculptures made from silicone , synthetic resin and fiberglass .

Life

Jinks grew up in a home that encouraged his creativity. His mother worked as a nurse and painter, his father was a carpenter and a school teacher for mathematics and physics. After finishing school, Jinks first worked as an illustrator . He gained knowledge of the materials latex and silicone he used during his subsequent work in television, where he worked in props for commercials and films and in the design and manufacture of masks and sculptures. In 2003 he realized parts of her designs for the artist Patricia Piccinini on the occasion of the Biennale di Venezia . Jinks has two children and lives and works in Melbourne .

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After initial sketches and making miniature models, Jinks first modeled his sculptures on a support frame made of steel and wood in clay before casting them in silicone. After shaping his naturalistic representations of people, he uses human hair and finally applies paint. A special feature of his sculptures is that human bodies are always a bit smaller than the 1: 1 scale. He also makes animal sculptures, some of which are larger than life, such as snails and insects.

Artistically it can be assigned to hyperrealism . The themes of his works are recurring death and birth as part of an eternal cycle. His sculptures rich in detail, described as "poignantly beautiful" and "irresistible in their striking resemblances to real life", "causing one to ponder larger universal ideas associated with life, death, and intimacy "(force the viewer to think about larger universal ideas about life, death and intimacy).

Works by Sam Jinks can be found in the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art , New Delhi, the Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporánea (MEFIC), Portugal, the RMIT Gallery , Melbourne, the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park and the Shepparton Art Museum , Shepparton.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
  • 2013: Sullivan + Strumpf, Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
  • 2012: Time Machine . Sullivan + Stocking, Sydney
  • 2012: Body in Time . Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton and touring Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore; Rockhampton Art, Gallery, Rockhampton
  • 2012: India Art Fair . New Delhi
  • 2011: New Work . New Albion Gallery, Sydney
  • 2010: Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
  • 2008: Melbourne Art Fair . Royal Exhibition Building , Boutwell Draper Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2008: Benalla Art Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2007: Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
  • 2006: Benalla Art Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2005: Distortions . West Space, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
  • 2020: ¿Lifelike? 50 years of hyperrealistic sculpture . Osthaus Museum Hagen
  • 2019: La Boverie: Hyperrealism Sculpture. Ceci n'est pas un corps . La Boverie, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liège
  • 2019: Galway International Arts Festival . Galway
  • 2018: Almost Alive. Hyperrealistic Sculpture in Art . Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 2016: Escultura hiperrealista 1973-2016 . Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao , Bilbao
  • 2015/16: Madonna. Woman - mother - cult figure . Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
  • 2014: "In the Flesh" National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
  • 2013: Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence . Biennale di Venezia , Italy
  • 2012: Animal / Human . University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
  • 2012: ArtHK12 . Sullivan + Strumpf, Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, Hong Kong
  • 2011: Art Stage Singapore . Sullivan + Stocking, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
  • 2011: Double Vision . McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park , Langwarrin
  • 2010: Melbourne Art Fair . Karen Woodbury Gallery, Royal Exhibition Center, Melbourne
  • 2009: Surveying the Field . Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2007: Voiceless: I feel therefore I am . Sherman Galleries, Sydney
  • 2006-07: Truth and Likeness . National Portrait Gallery , Canberra
  • 2006: Random Access . McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
  • 2002: baby . First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2001: Diamonds in the Rough . Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
  • 2000: Sleeping man . Ardwolf Gallery, Melbourne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gemma Tipton: A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks . In: The Irish Times, July 6, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019
  2. ↑ Shepparton Art Gallery: Sam Jinks Apr 21 - May 15
  3. ↑ Osthaus Museum Hagen: ¿Lifelike? 50 years of hyperrealistic sculpture . Retrieved August 11, 2020
  4. ^ Hyperrealism Sculpture. Ceci n'est pas un corps . Retrieved August 11, 2020
  5. ↑ Kunsthalle Tübingen: Almost Alive . Retrieved September 19, 2018
  6. ↑ Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao: Escultura hiperrealista 1973-2016 . Retrieved November 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine: Body Images: Sam Jinks (* 1973) - Frozen in extreme injury , from October 14, 2015. Accessed August 7, 2016
  8. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Landesmuseum presents Madonna exhibition , vol. 112, issue 49, from December 4, 2015. Accessed on August 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Jinks, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jinks, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendigo , Victoria