Jaye Early is a Darug man from the Boorooberongal clan, an artist, and lecturer in the School of Art & Design at the University of New South Wales. Working across a number of mediums including live and video-based performance and painting, his work deals critically with self-disclosure. Reworking the autobiographical through visual strategies of disclosure Early combines critical theoretical work with an active artistic practice. His painting style is often extemporaneous and he has been a finalist
in a number art awards, including, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2013/21), The Archibald Prize (2021), The Lester Art Prize (2021), The Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award (2020), The Linden Art Prize (2019), The Sir John Sulman Prize (2018), The Redland Art Award (2016/18, Hornsby Art Prize ( 2016), Derebin Art Prize (2017), Korrie Art Prize (2016), Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2016), Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (2013). His practice-based research is informed by Foucaildian philosophical notions of the self, self-design, contemporary confessional discourse, private and private space and spheres, subjectivity, and settler-colonial theory.

Writers:

Scott East
Date written:
2025
Last updated:
2025