Jasper Knight was born in Sydney in 1978. In 2002-2003 he completed a Master of Arts (majoring in painting & drawing) at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney.

Over the past 2-3 years Jaspers reputation has grown to become one of the hottest young emerging artists working in Australia today. He has been selected as an Archibald Finalist for the last three years running in 2005-6-7 and in 2005-6 as a finalist in The Wynne Prize, AGNSW Sydney.

In 2006 he was also a finalist in the Redlands Westpac art prize; 2005 Freedman foundation travelling scholarship winner; 2005 The Brett Whiteley travelling scholarship, finalist.

Jasper lived and worked in London to prepare for his 2007 sell out solo exhibition- entitled, The Thames Series. The first collagraph "Ala on the Thames" has sold out. This diptych "Tate and Lyle Sugar Refinary captures the individual elements of the Thames Series.

“Over the last two years my work has questioned the boundary not only between high art and the amateur or postcard photo, but also between sculpture and painting. My works are constructed of plywood, perspex, cardboard boxes, old signs and found plastic tiles and sheets. The surfaces and materials have their own history, of trade, industrial sites and the local hardware. These histories often bear a direct relation to the content of the work. For example, my series based on ports was constructed, in part, fro the detritus of the ports. Spatially, the works are varied: they privilege the surface, but at the same time play upon traditional perspective.

My work has always straddled painting and the constructed object. In the past, my materials have added to the narrative content, or sometimes to the context, of the depicted scenes. My recent work has explored this relationship between material and subject, between constructed object and painted surface, in a more abstract way. The subject matter, from wharves to cars, from chairs to landscape, helps explore these binary concerns and is treated in a highly architectural and linear way.” Jasper Knight

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