Jacqui Driver

Jacqui Driver is a Sydney-based artist, working in installation via the printmaking medium of lithography. Driver is currently studying for a Master’s by Research at UNSW Art and Design, with a research scholarship from UNSW aligned with the project. Driver is a current casual academic, teaching printmaking across three institutions, the National Art School, UNSW Art and Design and Australian Catholic University.

Working primarily with lithography and expanded installation, much of Driver’s work responds to her own experience of unstable emotional states of grief, trauma, and anxiety as well as dealing with the physical pain of chronic disability, inviting the audience to acknowledge spaces of discomfort and non-conformity in order to a recognise a more complex relationship with landscape.

Since 1992, Driver has exhibited in an extensive number of solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, as well as internationally. Her upcoming exhibitions include Luminal at AIRspace Projects, Marrickville; and Burnie Print Prize 2021 at Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania. Her works are held in a range of public and private collections.

#29 | COVID Anxiety, 2020, lithograph in 3 panels on BFK Rives, edition of 5. 56 x 114 cm. $2000 (framed), $1500 (unframed)

I explore the coastline

a tangled thicket with thorns like claws speaking of past hurts

observing spaces, thoughts cling to me

limpets of memories in a reflection of an eye

Fear broils

And I move on