The Boundary of the Intelligible w/Jennifer Mason: 22nd August, 2025

Jennifer Mason is a Tāmaki based oil painter, with a practice centered around Mason's passion for painting the figure, a subject typically known as ‘The nude’. 

Her current exhibition The Boundary of the Intelligible delves into new modes of exploration for the artist. In earlier works Mason typically focused solely on the figure, resembling elements of portraiture with references taken from posed models. But within this new body of work Mason has shifted her point of reference and has turned directly to the history of western art, and its iconic figures.

Recontextualizing these figures from art history and pulling them into her own paintings filled with vibrant prismatic fields of colour where bodies ascend, weightless and untethered. Removed from their past moments and brought into a world of tranquility with renewed vitality, separated from space and time.  

Maya had a chat with Jennifer about her show and overall practice.