Janmarie Thompson

"Janmarie Thompson’s works dance with the reality of individual human frailty, insignificance and courage in the face of relentlessly grinding and unfailingly unpredictable forces of nature.  The works stand in awe of geological changes on a massive scale, and human attempts to measure define and map their features at any given point in time.

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Collision and uplift, weathering and erosion constantly force change in the landmass, dissecting, disrupting, reorganizing and softening the landscape.  The Geoscientific observer charts topography, magnetism, gravity, conductivity, amplitude and resistivity, and seeks to understand and predict: what next?

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Thompson’s abstract exploration of geomorphic processes, combined with her enquiring approach to substrates and mediums, produces work energized with experimentation and unexpected outcomes.  We see levels and layers, reactions and interactions and an alchemy of time and pressure."

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                                                                                                                                                              Brett Smout, B.A. Hons (MQU), PhD (Sydney).