Jenn Brazier is a photomedia artist based in Adelaide, South Australia and is a member of the new-media artist collective Shoot.
Brazier’s artwork often uses long exposure and unconventional lighting techniques in an attempt to gain surreality from subjects and their surroundings. She finds that this quality lends itself more readily to her conceptual aims to delve into states of mind, rather than the documentation of a concept.
Gaia, from the series Secret Garden
Bypass, from the series of the same name
Untitled, from the series Gone To Earth
Untitled, from the series Highway
Fools Gold 3, from the series Menace
“Brazier’s work evokes mythic and dreamlike scenes that resonate with other cultural representations of psychodrama ranging from mysterious folklore about linimoid outsiders and monsters to shadowy scenes in horror and thriller films. As Jung proposes, the unconscious is truly unconscious - humans experience the unconscious through symbols encountered in myth, folklore, dreams, art, religion and symbolic dramas. Brazier’s work calls on us to touch our unconscious, to live that drama and to consider what may be retrieved from our own shadows. The works are intended as mirrors and Brazier seems to ask that we seek and see something of ourselves within their field of vision.” — From the essay, ‘Threshold … emerging from the Shadow’ by Linda Carroli (referring to the body of work Menace).