Australian artist Jemima Wyman's installation Putting On draws on the style of such subcultures as street gangs and liberation armies. She displays her novel uniforms balaclavas (the head gear or ski mask often associated with terrorists or robbers) with fake eyes and plaid flannel shirts embroidered with facemask logos against a patterned, digitally collaged wallpaper mural. Playing on the idea of urban camouflage, her garments suggest the masking of individual identity. A video appropriating training films for hand-to-hand combat has the grainy look of a hand-held night vision camera. Wyman's video, the wallpaper and her soft sculptures resembling bodies create a psychedelic arena for decorative display and voyeurism.
Jemima Wyman was born in Sydney in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brisbane. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology (2001). In 2005 Wyman received the prestigious Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship enabling her to enroll at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia where she earned an MFA (2007).