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Ms Jazmina Cininas

Position

Lecturer

School /
Work Unit

Art

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2767

jazmina.cininas@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 49
Level: B
Room: 12

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

Jazmina Cininas

Jazmina Cininas

Jazmina Cininas

Key Activities

Jazmina Cininas is a practicing artist, writer, curator and part-time lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at RMIT University. Her intricate and labour intensive reduction linocuts have regularly been regularly short-listed for contemporary art prizes and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work is included in many significant public collections, including the Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, the Victorian Arts Centre, Broken Hill Regional Gallery and the Alice Springs Art Foundation. Since 2002, various manifestations of Jazmina’s solo exhibition, Girlie Werewolf Project, have been shown throughout Australia and in Lithuania, with the Heretics and hirsute heroines version scheduled for October 2007 at Port Jackson Press. Curatorial projects include Antipodean Bestiary at RMIT Project Space (May 2007) and The Enchanted Forest: New Gothic Storytellers at Geelong Gallery (March 2008).

Qualifications

Currently Pursuing Ph.D.; MA (Fine Art) 2002; BA (Fine Art) Hons 1995.

Research

For the past decade Jazmina has been charting the evolution of the werewolf myth from a diverse range of sources, drawing attention to the parallel histories shared by women and wolves in the popular imagination throughout the centuries. The figure of the female lycanthrope serves as a unique barometer for social change; as one examines the evolution of werewolf lore one may also chart changing attitudes towards wilderness, religion, sexuality, sanity, criminality, body hair and - increasingly – women and femininity. As part of her current PhD research project - The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: historical and contemporary figurations of the female lycanthrope – Jazmina has been identifying historical precedents for contemporary ‘hirsute heroines’ from traditional werewolf legends and lore, creating a context for examining the rising profile of female lycanthropes in recent werewolf literature and film, as well as informing her own art practice.

School of Art Research Cluster

Art and Environmental Sustainability

Research Outputs

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2002-2006, The Girlie Werewolf Project, Kauno Galerija, Lithuania & RMIT Project Space, Switchback Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre (Dingo variation), Impressions on Paper Canberra (Between the wolf and the dog)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2006, The Idea of the Animal; RMIT Gallery
  • 2005, Grotesque: the diabolical and fantastic in art; National Gallery of Victoria International
  • 2005, Girls, Girls, Girls: Images of Femininity from the Banyule Art Collection; Banyule Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Benalla Art Gallery
  • 2004-2006, Place Made: Australian Print Workshop; National Gallery of Australia, Dell Gallery @ QCA, Albury Regional Art Gallery, Geelong Gallery
  • 2003, Act XII; new works on paper; Victorian Arts Centre, UTS Gallery Sydney, Artspace Adelaide Festival Centre

Publications

  • Tall tales and antipodean adventures: narratives in contemporary Australian printmaking, Imprint, Vol. 41, No.2, Win. 2006, p.p. 28-31
  • The Artist in the Laboratory: 2005 RMIT Postgraduate Book, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, 2005
  • Instinct; Artlink; Vol 24 #4, 2004; p.88
  • Merrin Eirth: lucky; Imprint; Vol 38, No.2, Winter 2003; p.p. 1-2
  • Susan Norrie: Undertow; frieze; Issue 73, March 2003; p.103
  • Ildiko Kovaks; Art & Australia; Vol. 40, No. 3; Autumn 2003; p.p. 498-499

Other

  • 2002-2005, Founding curator, Summer Studios @ 66 artist residency programme incorporating:
  • 2005, Ex Libris: (including catalogue with essay) RMIT Project Space, 2005
  • 2004, Pelt; (including catalogue with essay) RMIT Project Space: 2004
  • 2004, Shell Fremantle Print Award Artist in Residence

Research Supervision

Kate Just, MA, Second Supervisor, “Daphne and the Spiderwomen: re-crafting the nexus between female identity, nature and knitting through selected animist myths”