Jeannie Baker

The Powerhouse Museum is one of the Sydney’s museums of art, sciences and social history that is located in the head of Sydney, which collects from the fields of industrial, graphics, fashion and interior design, and visual art. The museum which includes all temporary exhibitions and also permanent exhibitions have attracted a large of people participated in and are connected to the many threads of thought and ideas that converge within. The museum represented many kinds of productions such as elements of architecture, photography, ceramics, textiles, jewellery, glass, furniture, fashion, children’s toys, cars, electric guitars, as well as film posters and old advertisements. One of them which attracted me in the first sight is “Belonging” collection of Jeannie Baker.

Jeannie Baker was born on the 2nd November 1950 in Croydan, England. She is a well-known author artist and illustrator of distinguished children’s picture books. She attended Croydon College of Art and Brighton College of Art before immigrating to Australia in 1975 and becoming a children’s writer. She has participated in many exhibitions and has won honours awards such as award of picture book of the year, especially the most notable of which is perhaps “Where the Forest meets the Sea”.

Baker is known with collage pictures. At Art College, she had already begun making her artwork which included using real textures for everything in the scene. Each of them took her two or three years to make it.

I love the way that she used actual scraped and salvaged ‘real’ material as fiber, clay, paper, timber and paint to build up her pictures. Going to details of collage pictures, if she wants to show an area of sand, she uses real sand to describe this that created a lively pictures, also with trees and bird feathers. Furthermore, her works focused on a present range of issue as family, society, environment and Australian's wildlife.




Reference:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannie_Baker
2. http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1053/Baker-Jeannie-1950.html
3. http://www.jeanniebaker.com/moreinfo_index.htm