Aggregate Icon (RBW) from center to periphery clockwise: Free-Gaza protester, Palestine, 5th May 2012 (Che Guevara t-shirt), Anti-government protester, Milan, 14th December 2010 (screaming skull), Union member protester against labor and fiscal reform, Madrid, 31st March 2012 (striped t-shirt), Indigenous land rights protester, Caledonia, 28th February 2006 (camo hoodie), Protesters occupying city hall against the shooting of Michael Brown put a keffiyeh on the George Washington Statue, Chicago, 11th August 2012 (Statue), Supporter of the Syrian uprising recording fellow protesters, Beirut, 15th August 2011 (mustache facemask), Protesting NATO at summit, Chicago, 20th May 2012 (badge), Anti-government protester in solidarity with jailed freelance photographer Ahmed Humaidan, Bahrain, 1st March 2013 (black keffiyeh), College student stages performance against air pollution, Xi'an, China, 5th December 2013 (dust mask), Anti-austerity protester clashing with police, Greece, 29th June 2011 (sling-shot) May Day Protester, Bogota, Colombia, 1st May 2013 (Che Guevara flag), A ‘Sister of perpetual indulgence’ at the hunky Jesus contest, San Francisco, 24th April 2011 (spotted nun), University student against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Caracas, 26th January 2010 (red fabric over eyes and mouth), Supporter of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, 10th August 2014 (dreadlocks), Zapatista Children protesters, Chiapas, 5th May 2015 (Six at a desk), G20 protester, Canada, 26th June 2010 (heart glasses), Pro-government supporters, Thailand, 30th November 2013
Artist
Wyman, Jemima
Production date
2016
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Aggregate Icon (RBW) from center to periphery clockwise: Free-Gaza protester, Palestine, 5th May 2012 (Che Guevara t-shirt), Anti-government protester, Milan, 14th December 2010 (screaming skull), Union member protester against labor and fiscal reform, Madrid, 31st March 2012 (striped t-shirt), Indigenous land rights protester, Caledonia, 28th February 2006 (camo hoodie), Protesters occupying city hall against the shooting of Michael Brown put a keffiyeh on the George Washington Statue, Chicago, 11th August 2012 (Statue), Supporter of the Syrian uprising recording fellow protesters, Beirut, 15th August 2011 (mustache facemask), Protesting NATO at summit, Chicago, 20th May 2012 (badge), Anti-government protester in solidarity with jailed freelance photographer Ahmed Humaidan, Bahrain, 1st March 2013 (black keffiyeh), College student stages performance against air pollution, Xi'an, China, 5th December 2013 (dust mask), Anti-austerity protester clashing with police, Greece, 29th June 2011 (sling-shot) May Day Protester, Bogota, Colombia, 1st May 2013 (Che Guevara flag), A ‘Sister of perpetual indulgence’ at the hunky Jesus contest, San Francisco, 24th April 2011 (spotted nun), University student against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Caracas, 26th January 2010 (red fabric over eyes and mouth), Supporter of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, 10th August 2014 (dreadlocks), Zapatista Children protesters, Chiapas, 5th May 2015 (Six at a desk), G20 protester, Canada, 26th June 2010 (heart glasses), Pro-government supporters, Thailand, 30th November 2013
(Yingluck and Thaksin printed shirts), Zapatista, Chiapas, 8th March 2011(black belt), Albanian celebrating 100 years of independence from the Ottoman Empire, 28th November 2012 (red and black face paint), Protesting grand jury decisions in police-involved death of Eric Garner, Berkeley, California, 6th December 2014 (holding donut), Protesting the disappearance of 43 students, Chilpancingo, Mexico, 11th November 2014 (profile red bandanna), Palestine youth protesting Israel’s military occupation, Beit El settlement, 28th January 2016 (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine headband), Anti-NATO protestor, Prague, 21st November 2002 (Che-Guaver Mask), Pro-Palestinian protesters, West Bank, 11th October 2015 (Group wearing keffiyehs), May Day protester, Oakland, California, 1st May 2012 (occupy mask), Zapatistas, Chiapas, 15th August 2013 (red and white spotted cape), Anti-Fascist protester, Bulgaria, 17th November 2013 (Anti-Fascist flag), Anti-Nuclear protester at Tokyo Electric Power Co. headquarters, 27th March 2011 (Nuclear No Thanks), Anti-government protestor, Bangkok, Thailand, 9th June 2013 (bandanna Guy Fawkes mask), Protester against the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, 13th August 2014 (white t-shirt mask), High school student protests lack of quality education, Santiago, Chile, 15th March 2012 (red t-shirt mask), Unknown (hoodie with patches), Millions Mask March, London, 5th November 2015 (Guy Fawkes mask with Camo), Protesting at the RNC for good jobs, healthcare, affordable education, equality and peace, Tampa, Florida 27th August 2012 (A’s painted on shirt), Free Pussy Riot supporter at the Russian Embassy, London, 17th August 2012 (rabbit mask), Black Block group defending anti-Morsi protesters, Egypt, 11th February 2013 (red face on black masks)
(Yingluck and Thaksin printed shirts), Zapatista, Chiapas, 8th March 2011(black belt), Albanian celebrating 100 years of independence from the Ottoman Empire, 28th November 2012 (red and black face paint), Protesting grand jury decisions in police-involved death of Eric Garner, Berkeley, California, 6th December 2014 (holding donut), Protesting the disappearance of 43 students, Chilpancingo, Mexico, 11th November 2014 (profile red bandanna), Palestine youth protesting Israel’s military occupation, Beit El settlement, 28th January 2016 (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine headband), Anti-NATO protestor, Prague, 21st November 2002 (Che-Guaver Mask), Pro-Palestinian protesters, West Bank, 11th October 2015 (Group wearing keffiyehs), May Day protester, Oakland, California, 1st May 2012 (occupy mask), Zapatistas, Chiapas, 15th August 2013 (red and white spotted cape), Anti-Fascist protester, Bulgaria, 17th November 2013 (Anti-Fascist flag), Anti-Nuclear protester at Tokyo Electric Power Co. headquarters, 27th March 2011 (Nuclear No Thanks), Anti-government protestor, Bangkok, Thailand, 9th June 2013 (bandanna Guy Fawkes mask), Protester against the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, 13th August 2014 (white t-shirt mask), High school student protests lack of quality education, Santiago, Chile, 15th March 2012 (red t-shirt mask), Unknown (hoodie with patches), Millions Mask March, London, 5th November 2015 (Guy Fawkes mask with Camo), Protesting at the RNC for good jobs, healthcare, affordable education, equality and peace, Tampa, Florida 27th August 2012 (A’s painted on shirt), Free Pussy Riot supporter at the Russian Embassy, London, 17th August 2012 (rabbit mask), Black Block group defending anti-Morsi protesters, Egypt, 11th February 2013 (red face on black masks)
Production date
2016
Medium
hand-cut digital photographs, collage
Measurements
173cm (diameter)
Object type
Interpretive text
Jemima Wyman is one of the highest profile practicing artists to come from Mackay. She was born in 1977 in Sydney, but grew up in Mackay, and currently lives and works between Brisbane and Los Angeles, USA. Wyman has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since 1998. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in a significant list of group shows including locations such as Brisbane (2022-23), Canada (2020), Houston (2020), Switzerland (2019), Los Angeles (2019), China (2019), New Zealand (2018), Germany (2018), Korea (2017), UK (2012), Japan (2011), Sydney (2010). Wyman’s recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Crisis Patterns’, Artspace Mackay (2024), ‘Billow’, Agency Projects, Melbourne (2022); ‘A Haze Descends’, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022); ‘Fume’, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2021); Jemima Wyman, Gallery Platform LA, Los Angeles (2021); and ‘At the Fray’, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018).
Wyman’s work has recently been reviewed in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Artforum, Camera Obscurer, LA Weekly, Eyeline, Art Collector and Artlink. Her work has been collected by multiple Australian institutions including: Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Home of the Arts (HOTA), Gold Coast; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Internationally, Wyman’s work is part of major international institutional Collections including: 21st Century Museum of Art, Japan; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Wyman’s practice encompasses a range of mediums including performance, video, installation, photography, painting and collage. In her collaborative pairing ‘CamLab’, launched with Anna Mayer in 2005, the duo explore sculpture and video-based work. Drawn from Wyman’s personally developed MAS-archive compiled since 2008, her recent collages across paper, digital and textile media are created from hand-cut compilation imagery from global protest movements. Both visually delightful and visceral, her works are imbued with a specific focus on visual-based resistance strategies (camouflage) employed within protest culture and zones of conflict. Wyman’s practice embeds the genre of pattern and design as a powerful making and social tool in contemporary art.
Wyman’s ‘Aggregate Icon’ series, launched in 2008 uses hand-cut photographs to create circular, kaleidoscope forms reminiscent of a Gothic rose window or modern-day mandala. 'Aggregate Icon (RBW)' continues Wyman’s investigation into camouflage as a social, formal, and political strategy, using patterning and masking to explore themes of visual resistance by marginalised groups. Through this large scale, hand-cut collage, the artist creates a collective of protestors who in many cases hold vastly different ideological positions uniting and facilitating imagination of different futures beyond the present.
Artspace Mackay 2024
Wyman’s work has recently been reviewed in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Artforum, Camera Obscurer, LA Weekly, Eyeline, Art Collector and Artlink. Her work has been collected by multiple Australian institutions including: Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Home of the Arts (HOTA), Gold Coast; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Internationally, Wyman’s work is part of major international institutional Collections including: 21st Century Museum of Art, Japan; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Wyman’s practice encompasses a range of mediums including performance, video, installation, photography, painting and collage. In her collaborative pairing ‘CamLab’, launched with Anna Mayer in 2005, the duo explore sculpture and video-based work. Drawn from Wyman’s personally developed MAS-archive compiled since 2008, her recent collages across paper, digital and textile media are created from hand-cut compilation imagery from global protest movements. Both visually delightful and visceral, her works are imbued with a specific focus on visual-based resistance strategies (camouflage) employed within protest culture and zones of conflict. Wyman’s practice embeds the genre of pattern and design as a powerful making and social tool in contemporary art.
Wyman’s ‘Aggregate Icon’ series, launched in 2008 uses hand-cut photographs to create circular, kaleidoscope forms reminiscent of a Gothic rose window or modern-day mandala. 'Aggregate Icon (RBW)' continues Wyman’s investigation into camouflage as a social, formal, and political strategy, using patterning and masking to explore themes of visual resistance by marginalised groups. Through this large scale, hand-cut collage, the artist creates a collective of protestors who in many cases hold vastly different ideological positions uniting and facilitating imagination of different futures beyond the present.
Artspace Mackay 2024
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased 2018.
Accession number
2018.16
