Jordan MaraniHEADS 2020synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas boardCourtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne© the artist

Jordan Marani
HEADS 2020
synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas board
Courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
© the artist

Jordan MaraniHEADS 2020synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas boardCourtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne© the artist

Jordan Marani
HEADS 2020
synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas board
Courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne
© the artist

Jordan Marani

Australian, born 1965; lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne

HEADS 2020
synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
Courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne

Artist statement:

These HEADS are a bunch of ‘nobodies’ with little social or political clout, resigned to yelling at a world they cannot change. They are an expression of a feeling of nihilism and helplessness – as an artist and a citizen. A mass of anonymous, cartoonish people individually hopeless, perhaps a little more powerful collectively, screaming in unison at who knows what. They could be at the football, a protest, in a choir or on a zoom call, perhaps they’re in Parliament. Maybe it’s a bunch of nobodies screaming into the void.

Geelong Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the Gallery and its collections are located, the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.