Jen Heads - The Beautiful Mess
Glass Series -1.0
283mm W x 303mm H
Mixed media on 3 layers of glass, framed in a satin white profile with spacers.
About the Artwork: The Beautiful Mess is an ode to stress... an exploration of the ways pressure, silence, and overwhelm manifest within the mind and body. While the surface radiates with a playful bubblegum-pink palette, the layered glass reveals a more complicated reality behind the fluorescent Jen Head.
Claustrophobic layers of imagery crowd the composition: pills, sharp-edged blobs, organic fragments, and opaque grey forms jostle for space, alternately concealing and exposing one another. Playful squiggles drift like clouds across the backing, a fragile counterbalance to the stillness of the foreground Jen Head face. Together, these elements evoke the way stress compounds, sometimes suffocating, sometimes absurdly chaotic.
About the Artist: Jenna Ingram is a versatile artist who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Canterbury University in 2007. Her creative journey has spanned various mediums and styles, including portraiture, landscapes and cityscapes. However, over the past eight years, she has dedicated her practice exclusively to urban art through her signature character, Jen Heads. This nature-inspired "mask" has undergone numerous iterations, reflecting Ingram's lived and artistic evolution. In addition to her work as an artist, Ingram has also been instrumental in managing her and her husband's business, Fiksate Gallery, further contributing to the urban contemporary art community.
Jen Heads - The Beautiful Mess
Glass Series -1.0
283mm W x 303mm H
Mixed media on 3 layers of glass, framed in a satin white profile with spacers.
About the Artwork: The Beautiful Mess is an ode to stress... an exploration of the ways pressure, silence, and overwhelm manifest within the mind and body. While the surface radiates with a playful bubblegum-pink palette, the layered glass reveals a more complicated reality behind the fluorescent Jen Head.
Claustrophobic layers of imagery crowd the composition: pills, sharp-edged blobs, organic fragments, and opaque grey forms jostle for space, alternately concealing and exposing one another. Playful squiggles drift like clouds across the backing, a fragile counterbalance to the stillness of the foreground Jen Head face. Together, these elements evoke the way stress compounds, sometimes suffocating, sometimes absurdly chaotic.
About the Artist: Jenna Ingram is a versatile artist who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Canterbury University in 2007. Her creative journey has spanned various mediums and styles, including portraiture, landscapes and cityscapes. However, over the past eight years, she has dedicated her practice exclusively to urban art through her signature character, Jen Heads. This nature-inspired "mask" has undergone numerous iterations, reflecting Ingram's lived and artistic evolution. In addition to her work as an artist, Ingram has also been instrumental in managing her and her husband's business, Fiksate Gallery, further contributing to the urban contemporary art community.