Gala Jane

Waiting 2022

Found pallets and timber

100 x 800 x 30 cm

$8,000

About the Work

Waiting is a sculptural work created after the Lismore floods of 2022 that Gala Jane made from found pallets and timber destined to be thrown out after the city began to rebuild. These pallets were either picked up by flood waters and deposited elsewhere or were brought in with new building materials. The old and the new, the clean and the muddy. The work reads Waiting… Lismore is in a period of waiting, waiting for supplies, waiting for funding, waiting for help, waiting for the government, and waiting to go back home again. This work represents the rawness and roughness that is experienced in the town, yet also shows the strength and solidarity of a community rebuilding.

About the Artist

Gala Jane is a mixed-media artist whose research-based artworks use text to create social commentary around women’s safety and mental health. After graduating with a Bachelor of Art and Design from Southern Cross University in 2020, she has gone on to exhibit and curate solo and group shows throughout Australia. She received the 2020 SCU Graduate Prize from the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, where she exhibited her solo exhibition This Is Nothing New. Gala was awarded first place in the Ocean Shores Art Expo, NSW, in 2021; was selected as a finalist for the Wollumbin Art Award at the Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW; and recently exhibited a public work in Swell Sculpture Festival on Currumbin Beach, Queensland. Since losing her studio in the Lismore floods she was awarded the Cultural Tourism Capacity Grant from Regional Arts NSW to assist her rebuild and to start creating work again.