Jasmine Crisp

Description

Mural: 'He could change where he was with his eyes'

Artist Bio:

Jasmine Crisp is a painter and muralist from Adelaide, South Australia. Her detailed narrative-driven paintings can be found both in the gallery space and the open streets. Her practice features local figures, spaces and belongings from her lived experience that are combined to create playful genre paintings of the imagined familiar. 

Crisp completed a Bachelor of Visuals Arts (honours) at Adelaide Central School in 2017 and has since been granted artist in residence programs across Australia, Iceland, Finland and Mexico and exhibited works interstate and internationally, produced three solo exhibitions (SA, VIC) and multiple award-winning paintings (CCH Art Prize, Kennedy Art Prize, Prospect Portrait Prize and more).

In her public art practice, she has created notable large-scale murals across the world, including notable works in Italy (Without Frontiers Lunetta), Vienna (Calle Libre), London (Blank Walls), Portsmouth UK (LOOKUP festival) and in Australia with Wonderwalls Festival, Brisbane Street Art Festival, Geelong Street art Commission and The Art Gallery of South Australia.

Artist Description of Artwork:

I was on my way home from the studio one day when I was struck by lines from ‘a portrait’ by Melbourne artist SEAGULL, and later formed this painting off Park ln for Frankston Street Art Festival.

Specifically, the line ‘crushing a mountain with my eyelid’ sparked the idea of turning my given surrounds, into more desired surrounds by ‘squinting’. The act of squinting a physical power in a ‘lived’/active moment but also more of an analogy for looking at things differently or taking new personal control of the outside world with creativity and outlook.

This design is entirely comprised of imagery from my recent sharehouse dwellings (and my current housemate and friend Conor) in respect to only making a story from what was available in the Aussie home/street.

Simply put, this is a work about finding ‘the beauty in the banal’ and using nothing but the body and mind as a device of perceptive change in a domestic environment. However, my aim for this is to also find truth, reason or ownership over beauty alone.

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Frankston Street Art Festival 2025

Location: Park Row, Frankston

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You can book to see this piece on a Street Art Walking Tour: Street Art Walking Tours (imaginefrankston.com.au)

Photography by Steve Brown.