Retailer / Stockist
NorthSite Contemporary Arts are now the exclusive retailer/stockist of genuine Jack Wilkie-Jans artworks!
Either visit their gallery and shop in Gimuy/Cairns on Abbott Street, or head to www.northsite.org.au, to purchase from a limited range of smaller paintings by yours truly.
Either visit their gallery and shop in Gimuy/Cairns on Abbott Street, or head to www.northsite.org.au, to purchase from a limited range of smaller paintings by yours truly.
A Cruel Tutelage @ NorthSite Contemporary Arts
from February 2026
Sundown–you better take care, 2024, Jack Wilkie-Jans, Acrylic on Canvas, 60cm x 90cm x 2cm
While I never permit to being cajoled, I sometimes don't consider myself to be a particularly "imaginative" artist; certainly feeling more comfortable working in certain styles or schools of practice. I can be very pragmatic and literal, and so often view my arts practice and writing to be "skills of technique" or "learned behaviour" more than an innate and intrinsic Artistic Urge.
However, over recent months I've had opportunities to create works rather ad-hoc, than in a concentrated effort. I've made the odd short film, too. While never being cajoled, I feel I'm making works just that little more personal and particular to my own tastes.
𝘼 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙡 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 is a developing body of work/collection which I'm assembling without deadline (though, has been optioned for exhibition) and with, quite literally, the only medium I feel comfortable exploring fiction (in subject stylisation, that is).
𝘼 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙡 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 will grow to become a multi-art form, critical exploration of the pains of losing control of Country, being displaced from Homelands, of the continuous evil machinations afoot by governments and warlords... and of having to learn and live with it. It will also explore images of horror and the supernatural.
It’s a thing to remember, the sunsets of home... and the coming of nights not scary.
Memories. And a longing for the dying blaze of a day leading into a night with no more wolves at the door. Nor of torches burning our beds anymore.
Warm cold nights with my Grandmother like before…
The new dawn is my one-true fate, one I share with all my peoples. The works of A CRUEL TUTELAGE speak to the sustained and precarious practice of ‘beauty’: That of mine and my peoples—who’ve been through Hell and back; and back to Old Ways, into our new age where we are masters of our Country, our fears and our futures like the true old days.
However, over recent months I've had opportunities to create works rather ad-hoc, than in a concentrated effort. I've made the odd short film, too. While never being cajoled, I feel I'm making works just that little more personal and particular to my own tastes.
𝘼 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙡 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 is a developing body of work/collection which I'm assembling without deadline (though, has been optioned for exhibition) and with, quite literally, the only medium I feel comfortable exploring fiction (in subject stylisation, that is).
𝘼 𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙡 𝙏𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 will grow to become a multi-art form, critical exploration of the pains of losing control of Country, being displaced from Homelands, of the continuous evil machinations afoot by governments and warlords... and of having to learn and live with it. It will also explore images of horror and the supernatural.
It’s a thing to remember, the sunsets of home... and the coming of nights not scary.
Memories. And a longing for the dying blaze of a day leading into a night with no more wolves at the door. Nor of torches burning our beds anymore.
Warm cold nights with my Grandmother like before…
The new dawn is my one-true fate, one I share with all my peoples. The works of A CRUEL TUTELAGE speak to the sustained and precarious practice of ‘beauty’: That of mine and my peoples—who’ve been through Hell and back; and back to Old Ways, into our new age where we are masters of our Country, our fears and our futures like the true old days.