2008 Exhibition: Diary of my Days | Jenny Sages

  • Jenny Sages, The Red One, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, Satellites, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, 38 Black Bream, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, Fragments Remembered , 2007
  • Jenny Sages, Eddy's Creek, 2007
  • Jenny Sages, For Wai Ching, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, Bush Food, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, Lost Ladies Gorge, 2008
  • Jenny Sages, Colour, 2008

2008 Exhibition: Diary of my Days
29 July - 23 August 2008

Jenny Sages

JULY 29 – AUGUST 23, 2008




For the past 24 years Jenny Sages has organized and taken regular trips to remote areas of the Northern Territory

Jenny travels with a small entourage – usually other artists and usually only women. Accompanied by the same two guides for over 18 years, and usually a guide from the Aboriginal community whose land she is on- the trip is rarely predetermined. It is travel in a rugged 4-wheel drive, swags, a small-netted tent and a GPS. There are no hotels, no hot showers, and no gourmet restaurants. There is the overwhelming ruggedness and beauty of the Australian bush; the awe of the spectacularly untouched gorges and the sense of solidarity and respect for the land.

It is this raw, unspoiled landscape that informs Jenny’s paintings of encaustic & pigment on board. Jenny digs, scratches, scraps and scarifies her encaustic surfaces applying layers of pigment along the way- while continually reworking the surface. The resulting works are multi layered abstract images that give us a very individual interpretation of the Australian landscape and expose the viewer to an exceptional artist’s vision.