Jazmina Cininas | 4 degrees of love in the Baltics (2018). Stab bound artist book with inlaid cover and stitched collage from Estonian and Lithuanian milk cartons. 59.5 x 35.5 x 1.6cm (closed) | Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
4 degrees of love in the Baltics was created from Farmi and Rokiškis milk cartons collected over the course of a three months in Estonia while Tartu Artist in Residence. Decorative motifs were cut from the cartons and arranged to suggest Baltic jewellery uncovered in archaeological digs, before being stitched into place on their paper panels.
Jazmina Cininas is an Australian artist whose work has been shortlisted for over 80 art prizes and acquired by over 40 public collections in Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia and Museums Victoria. International collections include the Lithuanian National Art Museum, Estonian Printing & Paper Museum and MARKK Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg. For close to three decades, she has lectured in printmaking and artist books at RMIT School of Art, Melbourne, where
she completed her PhD, The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame, in 2014.
While best known for her reduction linocut portraits of female werewolves, Jazmina’s practice has recently expanded to include intricate artist books from discarded print ephemera, sculptural lagerphones from used bottle caps and recycled timbers as well as pencil frottage from found surfaces in a conscious move towards environmentally sustainable art practices, intersecting with an auto-ethnographic exploration of her Lithuanian-Australian cultural identity.
