Seeping and peeling 2019-20 oil pastel on paper

Lithosphere like an orange peel by Jana Moser is an exhibition that considers the intimacies of mark making. Through the processes of drawing and printmaking combined, Moser creates intricate and textured spaces for organic and artificial worlds to unfold. 

“I find a lot of comfort in the scribble, the shade in, the scratchy quick motion; this movement repeated becomes a sort of practice of remembering what is inherent, what my body and thinking is made up of, what the tree and the molecular structure of its leaves are made up of, how the micro accumulates to make up the vast, and how the earth moves us in constant transition.”

Moser is a multidisciplinary artist whose art practice explores space, literal and metaphoric, through pictorial and textual relationships. In their visual articulations of urban and natural environments, they investigate anthropocentric and binary perceptions of the world. Colour and form interplay with layering, producing moments of liminality where multiple spacial channels intersect. In doing so, pathways are created for viewers to travel from the sensate to mental spaces of contemplation. 

Moser works across drawing, printmaking, text, paper making and installation. They graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in 2018 and was a recipient of the Lionel Gell foundation Award upon graduating. Moser has exhibited in numerous group shows in Melbourne and in Germany where they attended Pilotenkueche International Artist Residency Program in 2019.