Jaz Corr
b. 1982, NSW, Australia
Lives and works in Kiaram-a (Kiama), NSW, Australia.

Jaz Corr is an Aboriginal Visual Artist that resides on the South Coast of NSW, Australia. A graduate of Curtin University Western Australia (Boodja) as an Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (Double Major Fine Art and Visual Culture) and a postgraduate Master of Education (Visual Arts) from the University of Wollongong. As a proud Dharawal woman, her curiosity of the world has inspired a varied amount of artwork that reflects a critical view of social, political, cultural, and environmental issues. Her art practice demonstrates effective visual communication appropriate to both studio practice and art critical discourse. She has exhibited works in Sapporo Japan, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Sydney Living Museum, Gerringong Library and Museum, Illawarra Aboriginal Corporation Cultural Centre, Nan Tien Art Gallery and featured on the ABC.

Artist Statement:

Embrace, is created by carved burning, rust, lime and hints of gold to create works that are both materially raw and conceptually sophisticated. Each surface is subjected to processes of burning, corrosion, and layering, reflecting the tension between destruction and creation — a central aesthetic principle that underpins much Indigenous art practice, as described in Judith Ryan’s The Raw and the Cooked. Here, the untreated and the transformed coexist, symbolising the shifting realities of identity, memory, and survival.

Central to Embrace is a love story — the convergence of the hunter and the gatherer, the only two symbols that have been utilised. Once distinct, they are now entwined, creating hybrid patterns that honour both tradition and transformation. Their embrace is generative, an act of creation that acknowledges rupture but insists on beauty born through resilience.

My practice does not aestheticise trauma but instead distills it into visceral, elemental forms. Embrace invites the audience to observe where raw material, scarred surface, and lived experience coalesce — offering works that are both deeply intimate and universally resonant. Each piece is not merely an object, but a testament to the capacity for renewal, inscribed through fire, earth, and the enduring human impulse to make meaning from memory.

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