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Jazmina Cininas: Migrations and Transformations
January 22 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Jazmina Cininas will be presenting an illustrated talk that reveals the narratives of hybridity, migration, transformation and reinvention that led to her diverse art practice. These span historical and contemporary narratives of female werewolfism, the artist’s Lithuanian-Australian cultural heritage, a desire to engage with more sustainable art practices and the challenges and unexpected opportunities presented by COVID lockdowns. The artist joins us via zoom in the recital hall for this talk.

Jazmina Cininas is an Australian artist whose work has been shortlisted for over 80 art prizes and acquired by over 40 public collections in Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia and Museums Victoria. International collections include the Lithuanian National Art Museum, Estonian Printing & Paper Museum and MARKK Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg. For close to three decades, she has lectured in printmaking and artist books at RMIT School of Art, Melbourne, where she completed her PhD, The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame, in 2014. 

While best known for her reduction linocut portraits of female werewolves, Jazmina’s practice has recently expanded to include intricate artist books from discarded print ephemera, sculptural lagerphones from used bottle caps and recycled timbers as well as pencil frottage from found surfaces in a conscious move towards environmentally sustainable art practices, intersecting with an auto-ethnographic exploration of her Lithuanian-Australian cultural identity.

Image: Jazmina Cininas, Farmyard scene (2011-2021). Lagerphones with stands from used bottle caps and salvaged timbers. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.