Jumaadi
"There is a sense…of moving forward, while looking backwards"
In his first-floor studio on the fringe of a large industrial estate on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi is crouched down in the middle a suite of paintings that spread across the floor. He has removed his shoes and is scrambling over six three-metre-long epic narrative paintings that employ his familiar naïve imagery. So delicately painted are they that I wonder how the images remain intact.
Each of the six canvases measures approximately 3 × 3.5 m. They’re so large that Jumaadi can barely see one end from the other and with six on the floor at any one time things are getting out of hand. The paintings are destined for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of
