Viewfinder Window – Jen Bowmast

From: 17/08/2019 - 13/09/2019

Installation Type: passive

207 Trafalgar Street

Street Address

207 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
(next to Farmers)

Jen Bowmast was the first artist to exhibit in the Viewfinder Window. Her work, All my friends are psychic, was a satellite project to ‘Sacred Sites‘, a solo show at Ramp Gallery, which included performance work in the gallery window, where Jen received live psychic readings. 

Jen Bowmast graduated from Canterbury University with an MFA (distinction), and has exhibited in New Zealand and internationally. As a finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize 2017, Jen exhibited in Venice with her installation, Poetics of Space, first shown at G Space gallery at NMIT. Jen is a finalist in the 2019 National Contemporary Award, and has been awarded a residency at the Taitung Country Artists Exchange Programme in Taiwan (connected through Asia NZ).

Work: Jen Bowmast, All my friends are psychic, 2019, hot pink neon, plexiglass, polyester.

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