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Despite Us
Despite Us- Beinart Gallery Antipodes 2025
SOLD pencil & watercolour, barbed wire, metal flake & vintage frame

We destroy, we tear down, build over, invade, take and take and take. But, despite us, nature finds a way.
Dedicated to all of the birds and butterflies I see seemingly thriving in my local industrial area; despite us.


At Grandad's House solo exhibition
At Grandad's House solo exhibition
At Grandad's House solo exhibition
At Grandad's House solo exhibition- Off the Kerb Gallery 2024
Pencil and toned paper, vintage frames and fabrics used

AT GRANDAD'S HOUSE is a nostalgic escape to simpler times past.
Lovingly recreated in the gallery space, Grandad’s lounge room houses the artist’s hand drawn paper butterflies and insects.
Combining pencil on toned paper and vintage materials- often reminiscent of fabrics, textures and colour palettes direct from
her childhood. Jen Selmore invites you to take a comforting step back to childhood summer’s spent at Grandad’s house
where the towering roses and daisies provided ample coverage for hide and seek while butterflies flitted about in the sun.
And inside always a cosy place to sit and read one of the hundreds of books off the shelves.

With god on our side. Jen Selmore artwork. Masses of brown and white hand drawn butterflies twisting through the piece in 3D with some fighting, some damaged and some dropping down to the bottom of the piece
With God on our Side- Beinart Gallery Small Works 2024
SOLD Pencil and toned paper, vintage frame and mount used. 26x 30cm

For all of history the teritorial have invaded, condemned and destroyed others in the name of ‘God’.
This frenzied swarm of butterflies, some whole, some damaged, others dying or dead initially leads
your eye but then quickly confuses it by deviating from the flow down down down into damage and chaos.
I was originally going to create coloured butterflies attacking each other to represent different countries’
flags but aren’t we all really the same?


No Winter Lasts Forever. Jen Selmore artwork. Large hand drawn butterfly in winter browns with the left wing falling apart like a crunchy winter leaf
No Winter Lasts Forever- Off the Kerb Gallery Winter Days 2024
SOLD

Let winter be winter, eventually the darkness ends and the dead leaves give way as new sprigs of hope push through.

My Whole Life. Jen Selmore artwork. Brown and blue hand drawn and pinned butterflyDescaled. Jen Selmore artwork. Brown and blue hand drawn and pinned butterfly with descaling on the right side
Falling to Pieces. Jen Selmore artwork. Brown and blue hand drawn and pinned butterfly with strands and pieces of broken wing coming offEscape. Jen Selmore artwork. Brown and blue hand drawn and pinned butterfly on the bottom of the frame leaving the empty pin still in place
1. My Whole Life, 2. Descaled, 3. Falling to Pieces & 4. Escape- Beinart Gallery Wunderkammer 2024
SOLD Pencil and toned paper, 11x11cm each
In Grandad's Garden- Off the Kerb Gallery Buggin' Out 2023
1. Leaf Insect, 2. Arge Moth, 3. Pink Butterfly
SOLD Pencil and toned paper, vintage frames used.