Narelle Jubelin

Jamieson Valley in Mist on Cloud: Prescribed View, 1987
cotton thread on silk mesh petit point renditions, hand-cut wood veneer mount board framed in English oak frame
4 x 25.5 cm (petit point); 22.5 x 36.5 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title ‘”Jamieson Valley in mist on cloud; prescribed view.”/”Marks on the hand” series./Narelle Jubelin 1987’ (on the reverse)

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Provenance
Mori Gallery, Sydney
Maureen Laing, Brisbane (Rosemary Laing’s mother), acquired from the above in 1987-1988

Exhibited
(probably) The Crossing, with Adrienne Gaha, First Draft, Sydney or Second Glance (at ‘the Coming Man’), College Gallery, Adelaide, and Mori Gallery, Sydney, 1988
Narelle Jubelin – Vision in Motion, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, curated by Luke Parker and Ann Stephen, 2012 (no catalogue number)
DoubleTake – Collective Memory & Current Art, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, 20 February – 20 April 1992

Literature
Narelle Jubelin – Vision in Motion, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, curated by Luke Parker and Ann Stephen, 2012, exh. cat. p.10 (list of works)
Greg Hill, Bice Curiger, Lynne Cooke, DoubleTake – Collective Memory & Current Art, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, 1992, exh. cat. p.254 (list of works)

This is one of seven works from the Remembrance of Things Past Lays Bare the Plans for Destiny series, 1986-1987.

"Jubelin’s engagement with architecture did not begin with modernism but in the Orwellian year of 1984 when she started sewing renditions of Sydney monuments. Her Proustian tour-de-force Remembrance of things past lays bare the plans for destiny (1986-87) mimics the layout of the colonial city with miniature acts of treason, in anticipation of the bicentennial year of 1988. The works seven panels, housed in seven weighty looking timber frames, imagine a continuous horizon of monuments arching from Sydney Heads to Port Adelaide. The panorama is also durational, moving through night and day with majestic sunsets and cloud effects rendered in a high-keyed discordant palette of pink and green cottons.

It’s long low horizontal stage-set is marked by landmarks - fountains, gates, war memorials, obelisks, and neo-classical facades including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and its typological twin, the Art Gallery of South Australia – bracketed by lighthouses beaming at each other across the vast space.....

Jubelin’s early achievement was in grafting the critical appropriation of needlework - developed by earlier feminist artists - onto architectural and landscape discourses and hence, sexualising their rabid nationalising cultures." (Ann Stephen, Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion, University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney. 2012 pp.68-70)

Image courtesy of the artist and The Commercial, Sydney. Photograph by Geoff Boccalatte

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Narelle Jubelin was born in Sydney in 1960 and has been living and working in Madrid, Spain since 1996, producing her single thread petit-point renditions of photographs that weave connections between histories and places across cultures and periods. Jubelin's practice is grounded in research and each new work is connected to previous projects by a narrative thread.

In 1990 Jubelin presented the groundbreaking exhibition Trade Delivers People at Aperto in the Venice Biennale. The exhibition explored the histories of colonialism and economics and the ways in which local resources and populations are have been exported and exploited globally.

Jubelin has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, with major exhibitions including the solo exhibition Vision In Motion, University of Sydney, 2012, touring to Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne and Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide to 2013; Sidney Nolan: Early Experiments/Narelle Jubelin: Coda, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2012-2013; and The Great Divide, Angela Ferreira & Narelle Jubelin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009. Most recently, in 2019, a major three-artist exhibition, The Housing Question - Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin, Sherre DeLys, was held at Penrith Regional Gallery. She was also, in 1985, the co-founder of Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney.