Media + Writing Projects
Remapping the Coast: A Tapestry of Stories
Meg Powell / 10 March 2019
“The story of artists Jessie Pangas and Anne Morrison is one of unexpected connection, of collective stories bigger than individuals, of an overwhelming love of the North-West: its people, its places, its secrets, its fears…”
ARTS HUB Review
Ten Days on the Island Part One, the North West
Kath Melbourne / 15 March, 2019
“What Artistic Director Lindy Hume and the team at Ten Days on the Island have done is to throw away the idea that virtuosity can’t sit alongside deep community engagement and outcomes. They’ve found a way, in the North West to succeed in doing both.
A fantastic example of this is Here She Is in Devonport's Stewart Street Gallery …”
THE MERCURY: Tasweekend At Home Feature
Drawing on the past to find a home
Dale Campisi / June 16, 2018
‘‘Stepping inside Jessie’s home is like stepping into one of her artworks … studs are visible, a potential doorway is drawn out on the wall, the changing direction of floorboards point to former rooms and demonstrate how houses become homes, changing over time to reflect their inhabitants’ lives …”
Living on the Margins
9 September, 2017
“Adventurer, anthropologist and artist Jessie Pangas has lived in a tent, indigenous communities and rural India. Now she is learning to put down roots in remote north west Tasmania …”
Devonport Regional Gallery expands after-school art program
Lachlan Bennett / 16 April, 2017
“Art Spark is an intimate workshop series that encourages primary and secondary school students to further their creative thinking and develop an appreciation of visual arts …”
Devonport Gallery launches after school art program
Lachlan Bennett / 14 February, 2017
“Local artist Jessie Pangas will host Art Spark and encourages students to think creatively and be experimental …”
What Makes Artists Come To Queenstown?
August 17, 2016
“We talked with Jessie Pangas about her experience visiting Queenstown as an artist … Her work is typically devoid of human figures but yet replete with the sense of human presence; as if they had momentarily wandered off from shyness …”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Review
Right Here Now
John McDonald / January 15, 2016
“…a celebration of the vitality of the visual arts in “regional, rural and remote areas” of Australia …”
MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY
Jessie Pangas and Raymond Arnold
November 26, 2015
“A unique selection of artwork from regional Australian artists is on display at the Museum of Australian Democracy from 17 November, highlighting the prominence of rural voices in Australian democracy …”
CANBERRA TIMES Review
Right here now at Museum of Australian Democracy
Sasha Grishin / November 27, 2015
“The Tasmanian emerging artist Jessie Pangas has been mentored and has worked closely with her mentor, an artist of national standing, Raymond Arnold … there is a wonderful sense of harmony between the two pieces …’
Jessie Pangas: Home to Inspiration
Rick Eaves / October 7, 2015
“Jessie Pangas's life has been filled with the insights and inspirations that travel brings. Back at her childhood home in north-west Tasmania, the artist views the simplicity of home as the richest creative vein yet …”