Susan Jacobs

Solo Exhibition

Darren Knight Gallery

Presented by The Renshaws (Meanjin/Brisbane) in collaboration with Darren Knight Gallery, Gadigal Land/Sydney, Australia

2023

Solo exhibition

The Renshaws

Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia

2022

Bundanon Art Museum, Illaroo, Wodi Wodi Country, Australia

2022

Photography: Zan Wimberley

Commissioned for the exhibition Inside, Underground for Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley

https://www.bundanon.com.au/

We respectfully acknowledge the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups as the traditional owners of the land on which Bundanon Art Museum is situated, and recognise their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

In Dharawal the word Bundanon means deep valley.

Solo Exhibition

Buxton Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne Australia

2022

Curated by Jacqueline Doughty

Photography: Christian Capurro

The development of this exhibition was supported by an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship 2020-2021

https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/susan-jacobs-the-ants/

We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the land on which Buxton Contemporary is situated.

A5 Postcard

Produced for ‘When we cannot touch art ist the object that passes between us’ An art and correspondence project featuring Susie Anderson, Beth Caird, Brian Fuata, Angela Goh, Susan Jacobs, Ella Sutherland and a postscript by Charlie Sofo.

Organised by Melissa Ratliff and Bree Richards with website by Benjamin Forster

In a group exhibition with Juliette Mahieux Bartoli, Will Cruickshank, Benjamin Deakin, Fiona Grady, Ralph Hunter-Menzies, Susan Jacobs, Anna Lytridou, Charley Peters, Tim Ralston, Amba Sayal-Bennett

Curated by Eric Thorp and Nicholas Stavri + Recreational Grounds

The Factory Project involved the work of 10 curatorial partners and over 110 artists. It was initiated to support emerging to mid-career artists and curators, presented as a multi-disciplinary survey project that showcases 10 unique exhibitions within a large factory site.

October 2021

Thameside Industrial Estate, Factory Road, London, UK

https://www.insidethefactoryproject.com/recreational-grounds

In the group exhibition Underpinned by the Movements of Freighters with Gabriel Birch, Sabeen Chaudhry, Jane Davies, Nina Davies, Cole Denyer, Bryan Dooley, Ashleigh Fisk, Sophie Goodchild, Susan Jacobs, Alix Marie, Kemi Onabule, Richard Phoenix, Stephany Pollard, Luke Samuel, Sherie Sitauze, Huhtamaki Wab, Salome Wu, Ajla Zihan Yi, Scott Young

July 2021

Curated by Joe Moss

The Florence Trust

St Saviour’s Church, Aberdeen Park, London UK

Solo exhibition

Mackintosh Lane, London

2018

Photography: Robert Glowacki

This project was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Copyright Cultural Fund

https://www.mackintoshlane.com/susan-jacobs

Commissioned for The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture, Federation Square, Naarm/Melbourne Australia

2017

borrowed tonne of zinc, borrowed concrete lion sentinels, LED text, HD video, embossed lead, aluminium glove mould, chicken feed, yoghurt

Photography: Christo Crocker

Commissioned for Incerteza Viva The 32nd São Paulo Bienal, Brasil

 2016

Curated by Jochen Volz, Gabi Ngcobo, Julia Rebouças, Lars Bang Larsen and Sophia Olascoaga 

Compressed sand sourced from Parque Ibirapuera, 2 channel HD video with sound, glass screens, motorized marble lazy susan, plastic cup, cast aluminium, gallium

Photography: Pedro Ivo Trasferetti

This project was supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria

Catalogue Text by Ulisses Carrilho

 http://www.32bienal.org.br/en/exhibition/h/

Solo exhibition

Living Museum of the West, Naarm/Melbourne Australia 

2015

Hemacite handle, compressed pig's blood and wood flour, steel, neodymium magnet, carbon steel ball bearings, custom bound books, thread, cast iron, sand, ceramic, water, milk, vinegar, gallium, crushed magnetite, HD video, sound

Photography: Andrew Curtis

The first iteration of this work was commissioned by The National Gallery of Victoria Australia, for the exhibition Melbourne Now 2013

Photography: Christo Crocker

Poster: Yanni Florence and Susan Jacobs for Then Posters A project developed by guest curator Warren Taylor, founder of The Narrows, for Melbourne Now, NGV Melbourne 

Ingots made with the assistance of Torie Nimmervoll and Cadeyn Crawford

Guirguis New Art Prize

Ballarat Art Gallery, Australia

2015

HD video (silent), steel mount, aluminium glove mould, gallium, lead, crushed magnetite

Photography: Ben Cox

Commissioned for the group exhibition Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains

Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne Australia

 2014

Curated by Tara MacDowell

Decommissioned conveyor belt found stored in the top level of the gallery building, adapted and re-assembled in the gallery space with manual crank, turned intermittently.

Photography: Christo Crocker

Solo exhibition 

Sarah Scout Presents, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

 2014

Commissioned for Parallel Collisions 12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art,
Art Gallery of South Australia

2012

Curated by Alexie Glass and Natasha Bullock

Single channel HD video, silent (7 minutes 18 seconds, looped)
Bronze relief cast with painted steel base

Photography: Art Gallery of South Australia

Commissioned for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art by Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia

2012

Epoxy modeling compound, cast hydrostone, brass, bronze, steel, graphite, clay, metal polish, bowling balls, found objects, bone, bismuth, neodymium magnets, metal ball chain, copper, lead, particle board, bornite, iron, timber

Photography: Mark Sherwood

This project was supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria

 Text by Bree Richards

2010

Commissioned for the exhibition Opening Lines with Joyce Hinterding, Susan Jacobs, Katie Lee, Alex Martinis Roe, Philip Samartzis. Curated by Emily Cormack.

Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Australia

The removal of floor boards reveals the concealed, original tiled entrance to the building, c.1900.

0.5 meters x 1.2 meters x 10 meters

Photography: Andrew Curtis

Opening Lines text

Solo exhibition

Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2011

Site specific installation; removed gallery wall, timber construction, steel, found objects, fluorescent light tubes, light fitting, neodymium magnets, ball bearings, intermittent performance

Photography: Andrew Curtis and Jake Walker

Gallery text

Commissioned for NEW010, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (in response to interior architecture designed by Nexus Architects) Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2010

Curated by Rebecca Coates

Neodymium and ferrite magnets, pyrolytic graphite, bismuth, paper, timber, lamps, light bulbs

Photography: Christian Capurro

Text by Rebecca Coates

A group exhibition with Christo Crocker, Susan Jacobs, Saskia Pandji Sakti, Daniel Price and Nathaniel Robinson

Curated by Daniel Price

TCB Art Inc, Naarm/Melbourne Australia

2011

http://tcbartinc.org.au/if-loss-could-weigh/

Solo exhibition

Sarah Scout Presents, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2010

Photography: Jeremy Dillon

Text by Lou Hubbard

Solo exhibition

Utopian Slumps, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2008

timber, metal, lampshade, light bulb

Photography: Dermot Oakley

Solo exhibition

The Narrows, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2008

Charcoal, graphite, lead, timber, epoxy adhesive

Photography: Scott Miles and Jonathan Doncovio

http://www.thenarrows.org/archive/2008/24.shtml

A collaborative project with Andrew Hazewinkel

Conical Inc, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2008

Exhausted Nature stems from an attempt to use a cast ice lens to focus the suns rays in order to start a fire

Photography: Christian Capurro

Texts by Rebecca Coates and Adrien Allen

Solo exhibition

Ocular Lab, Naarm/Melbourne

2007

Dead tree, constructed false wall, timber door

Photography: Julie Davies and Susan Jacobs

In a group exhibition Marking Time with Justine Henry, Susan Jacobs, Jason Maling, Torie Nimmervoll,
 Rebecca Umlauff

Conical Inc, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

2006