Janelle Mendham

In residence at Platform Arts Hub Blayney.

Born and raised on a farm in Wiradjuri country NSW,  I am a visual artist living and working in nipaluna, lutruwita | Hobart, Tasmania. 

​I have a process-based practice that incorporates drawing, writing, sculpting, artist books, published books, site-specific & immersive installations, performative & experiential works, and socially engaged projects.  I work with spaces, materials and forms that are pertinent to the idea.  

​Much of my practice is concerned with a return to matter, to the inside spaces of earth and being, exploring our connectedness and exposing buried storylines from deep within our cultural mythologising.​

​Collaborations are integral to my practice including my collaboration with Ruth Hadlow to run salon - a program providing a platform for artists voices. 

​I exhibit regularly and nationally; have held many solo exhibitions including a site-specific installation at MONA; and have been finalist in national art prizes: tidal.18 and The Blake Prize. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (2005) and a Master of Fine Arts higher research degree from the University of Tasmania (2010).

Image: Star Gazer (celestial rememberings) @ home studio. music by Hildegard Von Bingen (1098 - 1179). 63cm X 93cm, pen and ink on kozo.

See more of Janelle’s work here: www.janellemendham.com