Jewels Stevens
Jewels of the North
Jewels Stevens first exhibited at Kick Gallery in May 2009 in a duo show called Secret of Vehement Dreams and then again in December at the Kick Gallery Studios in an exhibition titled Taxi Dancer. Immediately after her second 2009 exhibition Stevens left Australia to undertake a two month residency in Iceland with the Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM) and during that time she began work on her newest exhibition Jewels of the North.
Having been given the opportunity to fully immerse herself in her work in the last twelve months, Stevens has continued to refine and develop her colour laden, emotive, approach to art making. Inspired by the people and the places that she visited during her time based in Reykjavik, Stevens visual account of the landscape of Iceland is as much an emotional response to her overall experience as it is a muse for her to explore her interest in the ideas and techniques used by the Romanticists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
During her travels one particular part of Iceland that captured her attention was a place called Mývatn, commonly referred to as the ‘Jewels of the North’.