Jodie Whalen, Foreshadowing

Jodie Whalen, ForeshadowingArtist: Jodie Whalen Title: Foreshadowing Year: 2026 Material: Digital image printed on fabric with trimming Size: 900 x 1600mm Jodie Whalen is an artist living and working on Gadigal and Darug Land. Working within a multidisciplinary practice of video, sound, photography and installation. Repetition, and replication of imagery, forms, sounds and motifs are harnessed to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms, signifying time,

Artist: Jodie Whalen
Title: Foreshadowing
Year: 2026
Material: Digital image printed on fabric with trimming
Size: 900 x 1600mm

Jodie Whalen is an artist living and working on Gadigal and Darug Land. Working within a multidisciplinary practice of video, sound, photography and installation. Repetition, and replication of imagery, forms, sounds and motifs are harnessed to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms, signifying time, connection and transformation. Whalen was a resident at Parramatta Artists Studios Rydalmere and has recently shown work in the group exhibition ‘Undo the day” at NAS Galleries, a new public artwork commission for Parramatta Lanes Festival, and presented new work with; Performance Space - Live Dreams, BLEED 2022 Festival and Prototype Art TV. Whalen graduated from UNSW- Art and Design, Master of Fine Art in 2013. A short list of exhibition sites include; Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Performance Space, Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Modern Art. Awards; NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Ravenswood Australian Womens' Art Prize, The Blake Prize, The Valerie Taylor Art Prize for Ocean Advocacy and The Churchie Emerging Art Prize. Her work is held in private, and government collections. 

I found a healthier way of expressing my emotions is a group show inspired by and including works by an artist from Dillwynia Correctional Centre. They were purchased from Boom Gate Gallery (@ Long Bay Jail) whose staff make regular visits to Dillwynia to ensure equal representation of women at the gallery. 

The artist wrote “I discovered the gift of art after I joined the art program offered in Dillwynia in 2022. And my life has never been the same. I found a healthier way of expressing my emotions. I started finding my voice through arts. I found a platform to tell my story, to speak my mind, to be a voice for those who are still scared or who simply cannot. I’m 49 years old but I feel like my life has just begun.”