JAMIN
is an artist / stencil artist / musician. Jamin is a founding member
of Die Laughing Collective, since 2004. Jamin lives and works in Hobart,
Tasmania, Australia. Jamin's next major exhibition is INERTIA / FORCE / CHANGE / INERTIA at CRITERION Gallery in Hobart. Jamin's
solo exhibitions include theDevonport
Regional Gallery's Solo Commission 2007. First we take Paris, then we take
the World. http://www.devonportgallery.com, Tasmania: Explore the Possibilities (INFLIGHT Gallery,
Hobart, 2007), Common Ground (BUS Gallery, Melbourne, 2006), A.K.A. (CRITERION@Amulet,
2005) and Evoluntary (Nourish Cafe, 2004); and he has been involved in numerous
group shows including Hatched 06 (PICA, Perth, 2006), Group Action 2 (CRITERION
Gallery, 2005) and Melbourne & Sydney Stencil
Festival 2006 (Rose St. Artist Markets, 2006). Jamin is a founding member of
the Die Laughing Collective with Paicey and Empire who have had several 'solo'
exhibitions together including (Dissent Disrupt Desert, Hobart 2004, Die Laughing & Melbourne
Stencil Festival, Melbourne 2005, May's, Sydney 2006) as well as numerous group
shows, public and private commissions and workshops. Jamin joined the board
of INFLIGHT Gallery (Hobart Artist Run Initiative) in July 2005, and was a founding partner of Red Wall Gallery in January 2006. Jamin is represented by Criterion Gallery
in Hobart. Jamin completed a Master of Fine Arts degree MFA from the Tasmanian School of Art University of Tasmania in 2008,
where he completed his BFA in 2004 and BFA with First Class Honours in 2005. Jamin
was a working Graphic Pre-Press Designer from 1995-1999 and continues to freelance his design work. He is a Tutor at the Tasmanian School of Art in Painting, Core Studies and Graphic Design.He is represented by Criterion Gallery in Hobart.
Jamin is supporting Architecture in Helsinki in Hobart on 5th August, 2005. Jamin supported Carus at Sirens Restaurant on 13th August 2005. Jamin supprted Those Bloody McKenna's at the Lewisham Tavern. Jamin is a painter / image maker who lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Jamin’s practice engages with the production of ‘political’ art in an age of rapidly decreasing tolerance for dissent and critical opinion. Through a hybrid of street and gallery based work, Jamin explores ideas of power, complicity, duplicity, ambivalence, corruption, greed and privilege as being indicative of both personal and collective contemporary experience.Die Laughing Collective and Jamin have been invited artists at the 2005, 2006 & 2007 Melbourne Stencil Festival (MSF) also Melbourne & Sydney Stencil Festival (2006) and in 2007, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Sale, Ballarat and Newcastle. Die Laughing Collective have had several major exhibitions including Dissent Disrupt Desert (Entrepot, Hobart) 2004, Die Laughing (Earlyspace Gallery, Melbourne) 2005, The Rat Palace (Hobart) 2006. Die Laughing were also the invited artists in February 2006 at MAY'S in May Lane, St Peters, Sydney, and were part of the first MAY's Retrospective exhibition. City Lights 2008 Degraves Lane, Melbourne. Street Art. Stencil Art. Jamin's music is diverse and uncommon, reminicent at times of other singer / songwriters such as Nick Drake, Cat Stevens and Leonard Cohen. Jamin plays a variety of guitars, including lap steel (slide), and various other instruments such as the digeridoo, flute, stomp box, keys etc. Jamin is an independent musician. His limited edition demo album of 2003 is called The Weather. Jamin is planning a new release for mid to late 2009. His design work focuses on artist blog sites and designing for individuals who promote good stuff, including designing the brand for swamisz shoes www.swamisz.com. sarvamangalam. Jamin appears on two compilation CD's: "Talloonne" (w. The Mystery) and "Have You Dropped Something" (w. Three Times Green). Jamin also makes electronic music (dub, dreaks, hip hop, trance) under the name Pirates of Bass Straight. edge radio dmusic mp3.com.au naked dwarf JJJ devendra banhart ben harper john butler xavier rudd mason jennings m. ward nick drake bonnie "prince" billy grant lee buffalo robert johnson leonard cohen ween bad religion bright eyes iron & wine the waifs hayden sainthill. benjamin ben.jamin.