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Jasmine Crisp
Jasmine Crisp is a painter and muralist from Adelaide, South Australia. Crisp utilises her traditional painting background to create her detailed mural paintings using only brush, roller and hand mixed colours. Her practice features local figures, spaces and belongings from her lived experience that are combined to create playful genre paintings of the imagined familiar.
Jasmine has produced large scale murals across the world, including notable works in Italy (Without Frontiers Lunetta), Vienna (Calle Libre), London (Blank Walls), Portsmouth UK (LOOKUP festival) and in Australia at Wonderwalls Festival (Port Adelaide), Brisbane Street Art Festival, Wall to Wall (Tumby Bay) and Geelong Street art Commission and The Art Gallery of South Australia.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
TITLE: He said we were welcome to ‘drop by whenever’
In my mural painting practice I’m passionate about featuring quiet, personal or invisible moments that often occur inside, as visibly available tales for the outside. This is with the intentions of creating narrative paintings that resonate a sense of shared human experiences with the public through art.
For the Darwin Street Art Festival I had the special opportunity to see Darwin as led by a local. This meant that I was immediately made to feel comfortable and trusted, with friendly locals willing to show me into their homes and share their stories with me, even upon first meeting.
In the spirit of the notion ‘always being able to drop by’ my design features a shapeshifting space where figures are seen together in a shared but passing moment of daily rest. Elements of the nearby natural landscapes of Darwin are included as a hazy ‘backyard’ or memory that surrounds (or even enters through the windows) into the main place of rest, the home. All the visual elements in this design have directly come from, or are referenced, to my experience of the lifestyle and environment of Darwin, both inside and out.
