Narelle Jubelin: Soft and Slow

About the exhibition
This exhibition presented two site-specific installations by Sydney artist Narelle Jubelin: Dead Slow (1992–95) and Soft Shoulder (1994–95).

Dead Slow explored colonialist themes embedded in international trade and travel—particularly the global movement of texts and literature. Soft Shoulder, meanwhile, focused on the personal and professional history of Marion Mahony Griffin—the second woman to graduate in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, later, collaborator and wife of Walter Burley Griffin.

In her foreword, Monash University Gallery Director Jenepher Duncan notes: ‘Jubelin’s creative methodology is to unpick the weave of historical fact, rework it from her own perspective, and create new resonances and meanings from the counterpointing of object, image and text.’ Reflecting this emphasis on the interplay between object and image, the exhibition catalogue included a commissioned photo essay by Jacky Redgate, created in direct response to Dead Slow and Soft Shoulder.

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^{Image: Narelle Jubelin, framed petit-point rendition of woven cloth, 1991–92. Photo: Jacky Redgate}