{"id":339,"date":"2007-05-07T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T08:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-01-03T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:28:10","slug":"sam-jinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/05\/07\/sam-jinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Jinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutwelldrapergallery.com.au\/exhibitions.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/jinks.jpg\" title=\"Jinks\" alt=\"Jinks\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s recent exhibition <em>Truth and Likeness<\/em> because it had one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutwelldrapergallery.com.au\/artists\/jinks.php\">Sam Jinks&#8217; sculptures<\/a> on display, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portrait.gov.au\/exhibit\/truth\/jinks.html\">one of his son as a very new baby<\/a>. It&#8217;s lovely, and wonderfully detailed, but disquieting at the same time, because its larger-than-life scale acts against the usual instinct to coo over a tiny new born. I also felt an implication &#8211; something about the eyes &#8211; that this little boy, like all babies, was a secret package, a whole strong personality present in there, just waiting to emerge and be discovered by others over time. I liked that.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Jinks is the artist whom <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/04\/11\/patricia-piccinini\/\">Patricia Piccinini<\/a> collaborated with to make some of her sculptures, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roslynoxley9.com.au\/artists\/31\/Patricia_Piccinini\/249\/\">The Young Family<\/a>, but his name has been less well known in the past. It&#8217;s cool that he is now exhibiting in his own right. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutwelldrapergallery.com.au\/exhibitions.php\">exhibition of his recent work<\/a> opens at the Boutwell Draper Gallery in Sydney this week, and you can see some work-in-progress making pictures at that link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westspace.org.au\/exhibitions\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/jinks2.jpg\" title=\"Jinks2\" alt=\"Jinks2\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From previous exhibitions:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/reviews\/sam-jinks-distortions\/2005\/08\/30\/1125302559926.html\">West Space Inc<\/a>: 2005 photos<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/reviews\/sam-jinks-distortions\/2005\/08\/30\/1125302559926.html\">Sam Jinks, Distortions<\/a>: review of his 2005 West Space exhibition<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/arts\/carnal-knowledge\/2005\/08\/29\/1125302503688.html\">Carnal Knowledge<\/a>: about Jinks, and how he thinks about his sculptures<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprogram.net.au\/featuresSub.asp?id=2888&amp;state=1\">J Arts Crew:: Sculpting the body<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s recent exhibition Truth and Likeness because it had one of Sam Jinks&#8217; sculptures on display, one of his son as a very new baby. It&#8217;s lovely, and wonderfully detailed, but disquieting at the same time, because its larger-than-life scale acts against the usual instinct to coo over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,20,10],"tags":[709,99,100,1361],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-make","category-sculpture","tag-baby","tag-patricia-piccinini","tag-sam-jinks","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}