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Waking up the StoneJennifer Baird
West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre
Opening: 6pm Friday 4 December 2026
Exhibition: 4 December 2026 – 31 January 2027
Waking up the Stone is a body of work Baird has been creating for almost a decade. At its centre is a 1 metre squared woven plastic bag piece created in 2018. A source of inspiration for multiple CMYK screenprint and lithographs.
The work itself is a grid of woven and stitched plastic bags, disintegrating plastic, thread and lino print. Having its own properties and interactions with light, colour and texture.
The screenprints from the woven plastic bags explore this light, some like stained glass and others with the focus of light directly on the work.
Over years, the work has revealed prophetic messages. ‘I could not believe my eyes when I saw ‘By Voting Yes’ in 2023 before the referendum for an indigenous voice to parliament.’
Very personal works like ‘S14’ from the CMYK workshop Baird attended at Megalo Print Studios and ‘Waking up the Stone’ a CMYK lithograph, emerged. Working across the two studios Press and Screen.
And then there is the stone at the heart of the lithographs, asleep and awake working with Baird as she explored the complex and perplexing medium.
‘This a thoughtful body of work I am immensely proud of and my coming of age as an artist’
Learn more: https://www.belcoarts.com.au/waking-up-the-stone/
Image: "Waking Up the Stone" (detail) by Jennifer Baird
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Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2617, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia, Hall
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