Dancing in the Thicket (unframed)

Jacqui Driver is a print-based installation artist living and working on Gadigal land. Driver is known for her large-scale multiple panel lithographs. Her work reflects the mental and physical struggle of living with chronic pain. Driver usually draws entangled trees and calls them variations of ‘thicket thinking’ as both the layering of marks and washes and the processing of them, distract her from pain. Complex drawing conjures the difficulty of managing to force pain into background noise by using a variety of distraction methods. Some cerebral and some physical. As an artist living with a severe form of Rheumatoid Arthritis, these challenge Driver’s body physically but echo the monumental nature of living with inflamed joints and deteriorating tendons. She has had 7 solo shows over the last few years and has been selected in various art prizes, including the Salon des Refusés-Wynne 2024, JADA (Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize) 2024, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2024, Hazlehurst Works on Paper 2023, The Waverley Art Prize 2022-2023 and the Burnie Print Prize 2021, 2023, 2025.