Entwined
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- Place made
- Imogiri, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on buffalo hide
- State
- Unique
- Dimensions
- 69.0 x 64.0 cm
- Credit line
- Gift of Professor Ruth Rentschler OAM through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors 2024
- Accession number
- 20243S11
- Signature and date
- Signed and dated on verso, c., pencil "Jumaadi / 2019".
- Provenance
- Created by Jummadi, Indonesia, 2019; [King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, 2019-2024]; gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2024.
- Collection area
- Asian Art - Indonesia
- Copyright
- © Jumaadi, courtesy of King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
- Image credit
- Photo: Saul Steed
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Jumaadi was born in Sidoarjo of East Java, Indonesia in 1973. Between 1994 and 1995 he worked as an Art Educator, at the PPLH Environmental Education Center at Seloliman, East Java. He moved to Sydney in 2000 to study at the National Art School where he received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, both in fine art. Jumaadi now lives and works in both Australia and Indonesia.
Jumaadi’s imagery traverses the histories and narratives. The Javanese and Balinese cultures have a particularly strong influence on him, based on which his work revolves around demons, spirits, and fanciful creatures. Jumaadi works on multiple disciplines, including painting, buffalo hide works, large-scale installations, and performances, and often time in the subject matter of ‘love’. He absorbed the painting tradition in East Bali, and learned how to work with buffalo hide in Yogyakarta’s Wayang Kulit shadow puppet theatre. Through his works of art, Jumaadi invites the audience to revisit the historic stories through a new lens of creative imagery.
Jumaadi has staged more than 30 solo exhibitions in Australia and beyond, including the three in 2023 –The sea is still a mystery, a shadow play at MCA, Sydney; Jumaadi: New Narratives, at Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; and Migration of Flora, Drawings and Paintings by Jumaadi, at the Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, United States. Jumaadi also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including The National 4: Australian Art Now, Campbeltown Art Centre, NSW in 2023; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 10), QAGoMA, QLD, 2021; and The Dobell Drawing Prize NAS Biennale Jogja XVI Equator #6, Indonesia, 2021. Jumaadi’s artistic creations are collected in Australia and the USA, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Yuexiu Shen, Lorraine Hossack Emerging Curator (2024).
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The two snakes in Entwined are in play with the nagas from Javanese and Balinese narratives and wayang theatre. They are related to the structure of the cosmos – according to creation myths known in Java and Bali the world snake Antaboga lives in the ocean and created a giant turtle during a meditation, who carries the world on her back. There is also another story about snakes that inspired Entwined, where gods seek to populate the earth by blowing seedlings from their hands. These grew up to be quite beautiful and were adopted by an old couple who brought them back to heaven. Unfortunately, this made the god angry and he killed the male, who dropped to earth, becoming a snake. The woman met a similar fate and became a mouse. The imagery of the double snakes – sometimes referred to as the wedding of snakes – is an idealised version of their reunion. The design also takes on the cloud pattern megamendung found in Cirebon batiks.
Yuexiu Shen, Lorraine Hossack Emerging Curator (2024).