Jill Joubert
My abiding interest in the deeper meaning of fairy tales, creation stories and mythologies across many
cultures is reflected in the title I gave my MA dissertation: Apple Girl: Ingesting and Transforming
Apple Girl from Fairy Tale into Sculpture and Performance. Since Apple Girl, (2013) I have worked
on, and performed three subsequent puppet plays.
I also work in figurative sculpture that reflects my puppets in their otherworldly forms and sometimes
moving, jointed parts. Conceived through the properties of wood and found objects such as bone,
beads, bits of fur, metal, and other discarded objects, the hybrid wooden figures evoke spirit beings
that exist in a liminal space, part human, part animal, often with androgynous sexualities. I source
wood from felled trees and roots, whose shapes suggest the transformed characters they will
become.
My work fuses and reflects diverse iconographies drawn from my inheritance of pre-Christian,
Biblical, European, African, and Catholic sources. The embedded histories of recycled wood and
found objects, often gifted to me by family and friends, link the past with the present and the spiritual
with the material.
My spirit figures, re-fashioned from once seemingly dead and discarded materials, are symbolic of
a deep longing for delight and hope in a chaotic and turbulent world.
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