An artist with a background in television props and puppets, sculptor
Sam Jinks, mixes silicone magic with an obsessive creative vision. Jinks' still, hyper-real sculptures of vulnerable beings are creepy, delicate and ringing with quiet truth.
Jinks has an uncanny knack for creating works that both repel and attract all at once. We cross some sort of polite line when we stare so closely at someone that could be real. Someone that could wake up any second.
And there is something culturally uncommon about the effort put into making perfect imperfection. While Photoshoppers all over the world are working 24/7 to erase shadows and wrinkles and imperfections to make models glow, Jinks is equally obsessively perfecting the tiny flaws in his sculptures that make them as real-as-can-be.
This beautiful celebration of imperfection and honesty of craft causes people to react strongly to this work. Even be curiously offended.
As he says, "I’d like to think that the viewer would feel something after viewing the work, perhaps they could even have some sort of physical experience or maybe see something that they can relate to in their own lives."
These are works that beg to be seen in person. That can only be suggested on your screen or in a magazine.
See Sam Jinks' work in the real at Melbourne Art Fair next week.
Sam Jinks
Royal Exhibition Building
Carlton Gardens
Melbourne Australia
4 - 8 August 2010
Thursday 5 August 11.00am - 7.00pm
Friday 6 August 11.00am - 8.00pm
Saturday 7 August 11.00am - 7.00pm
Sunday 8 August 11.00am - 5.00pm