IN THE GALLERY: So Here's The Thing

Jo Plank
SO HERES THE THING, 2021, instal view

??? phone calls ( Jane), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
81.5 x 57.4cm

9 phone calls ( Dominik ), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
58.8cm x 41.7cm

22 phone calls. (Adrienne Chrissie), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
79.2 x 59.5cm

46 phone calls ( Kylie), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
59.5 x 70cm

56 phone calls ( Jenny Kylie), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
59.5 x 79.2cm

92 phone calls (Chrissie Anitsa Angie Jenny Paul Jurgen), 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
78.5 x 109cm

Fuck The Past, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
56 x 54cm

I Don’t Need you I want you I choose you, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
59.5 x 79cm

Just you and me, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
78.5 x 109cm

Love Smacked Me, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
3z x 39.3 cm

Loved Up, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
79.2 x 59.5cm

So Heres The Thing, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
80 x 59cm

Take Your Pants Off, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
76 x 46cm

The Colour of Him, 2021 (Detail)
Pen on paper, hand finished aluminium, anti reflection glass
30 x 42 cm

Jo Plank

6 Sep - 2 Oct 2021

Jo Plank ‘SO HERES THE THING’ Install Video from THIS IS NO FANTASY on Vimeo.

SO HERES THE THING

This body of work explores the value of mark-making through urgent expression. Each artwork represents a time in the artist’s life when intense feelings needed wrangling.
Feelings of unrequited love, of simply being in love.

The artist shifts from cathartic focus to unconscious mark making. She documents the hours spent mining for meaning through conversations with friends. A poetic glimpse into an otherwise private moment.

For Plank, the finite properties of the paper, despite its often vast scale, serves as a boundary to what might otherwise feel infinite.

Repetition allows for a meditative form of closure. Initial marks take shape, abstract lines find form. A personal transformation reveals itself on paper, and with it, a chance to move on.

Plank lays bare the residue of personal trauma and in doing so, stumbles across the act of letting go.

By Susan Mountford & Claudia Christo

IN THE GALLERY: So Here’s The Thing

Jo Plank

6 Sep - 2 Oct 2021