Postcards in Stone - A new series available at 8 pm, June 1 st.

I am very pleased to be releasing Postcards in Stone a collection of hand-carved Grampians sandstone maquettes, and small paintings, each one unique, the result of many threads of inspiration that have been weaving together for a very long time.

The postcard idea first began in India. In February 2025 I travelled to Delhi for the India Art Fair and to visit Jantar Mantar, the extraordinary Mughal astronomical observatory built entirely in stone, exploring cosmic knowledge via geometry.

The colour, the intensity, the ancient spiritual awareness embedded into the everyday in India, had a synergy with my own practice and interests, and made an immediate and lasting impact. While travelling I made small postcard-style works, and the idea of this kind of intimate object as carrier of memory and message has stayed with me since.

Stone itself has been circling my practice for much longer. As a child I spent hours assembling stones into structures on riverbanks while my family fished, absorbed, unhurried and content. It was my first way of making, creating purely for the process and the pleasure of being fully absorbed in something.

I also only recently discovered that my maiden name Mellor means ‘bare hill’, the name of a Lancashire village with three ancient quarries, the place my father’s line comes from. Stone is in my ancestry, quite literally.

Another stone story, in my twenties when I was still living in the Northern Territory, the late Lorna Napurrula Fencer, a significant Australian Aboriginal artist, stopped her painting one day, found a stone, painted it and gave it to me. It has never been far from me since. A talisman I didn’t fully recognise until years later. It’s sitting on my studio desk as I write this.

So, it makes perfect sense for me to be creating my symbols, geometry and designs, my cosmic questions out of stone. Objects to share with you all that feel both sentimental and personal, timeless and ethereal.

My maquettes are hand-carved in Grampians sandstone which is local to me. Each one will be carrying it’s own geometric language, each one a postcard from this place and this moment in time.

This release also directly supports my upcoming Portugal residency in July, where I will work with local stone (marble) for a group exhibition in Lisbon, the practice expanding into new geology, new ground and new skill sets. It will bring so much back into my practice!

The full back story on stone is here if you’d like to take a look..

jasminemansbridge.com/blog/new-work-in-stone-amp-a-portugal-residency

They go live Monday 1 June at 8 pm AEST www.jasminemansbridge.com/shop

If you’d like to reserve a piece before the public release, simply reply to this email or message me on socials and I will set one aside for you.

With warmth always

Jasmine

jasminemansbridge.com