Jasmine Targett

Jasmine Targett is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines perception in the context of quantifying ecological concerns. Targett’s work is deceptively beautiful, illuminating aspects of nature that are often overlooked. Within her work there is an uneasy tension between the engaging aesthetic and the information portrayed, exploring sinister scientific data that has irrevocably altered our perception of nature in recent years.

‘It’s hard to imagine a more opportune moment for ‘making sense’ of environmental issues, which clearly present us all – scientists and non-scientists alike – with a huge challenge… Jasmine Targett’s works bridge a crucial gap, presenting complex, disturbing data in lucid, evocative, even surprisingly beautiful form.’ – Professor John Gregory, Making Sense: from the Sublime to the Meticulous, 2011.

Melbourne born, Targett is currently completing a PhD on Sensing Ether: a studio based investigation into Perceiving Atmosphere, Light and Life Support Systems at Monash University with the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award.

She is currently undertaking research with Monash Micro Imaging and Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory and EOS Satellite Data for works to be presented alongside Debbie Symons in their upcoming exhibition Making Sense at Craft Victoria and Federation Square’s Urban Screens- September 2011, Supported by the City of Melbourne. Targett’s work from the exhibition will be exhibited subsequently in Wonderland at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei-February 2012.