Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
04 December / 09 January 2021

JASON WATERHOUSE
Domestic

In Domestic, Jason Waterhouse presents a dystopian vision where everything and nothing is real. Segments of Domestic Plants carefully selected and displayed, slip and shift between states of impossible possibilities, seamlessly sliding from organic forms into metallic states. In Domestic the works create a sense of unease and wonderment, enabling cinematic narratives viewers are more likely to see in science-fiction films. Nature is no longer natural, engaging a space between the known and the unknown.

Over the last twenty years, Jason Waterhouse has been applying his malleable skills to public commissions, installation and drawing, articulating his poetic relationship to the world by warping and manipulating utilitarian objects. Advocating a non-elitist form of art-making, Waterhouse thrives on altering spaces and objects through a strong craft sensibility combined with the Western idea of the ready-made.

Jason Waterhouse’s practice plays with autobiographic notions of contemporary Australian identity and he is widely known for playfully manipulating tools, cars, sheds and other cultural signifiers. Previous works have involved a series of interventions resulting in a hybridised object that occupies a space between the natural and the manufactured. Jason Waterhouse completed a BFA in sculpture at Monash University and Post-Grad at the Victorian College of the Arts. Over the last twenty years, Waterhouse has exhibited his work extensively in Australia, including at the Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat (2018) and The Scienceworks Museum, Melbourne (2016). His recent public art commissions include ‘Levelled Crossing’, Melton Highway, Brimbank Council and ‘Cottage’, Daylesford Lake, Hepburn Shire.

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