Eden Lennox: The Amalgamation of Modern Migrants

Eden Lennox was born in Australia where her paternal Ashkenazi Jewish grandmother sought refuge with her children after the Holocaust.

Her father arrived in Australia with his mother and younger sister after WWII. Arriving with little more than a single suitcase and a ‘waste not-want not’ mentality, they created homes, formed new families and built a life here.

Lennox’s work is indelibly informed by her cultural identity. She uses bold pop and punk symbols, representative of her upbringing, in stark calculated arrangements to illustrate the mixing, melting and amalgamation of a modern migrant in the Australian landscape.

Organised by Blandine Hallé and Melissa Cameron, Connexions came from a desire to share contemporary Australian jewellery with the world.

This became augmented by what Hallé and Cameron wanted to share about Australia, versus what was at the forefront of the news media at the time; namely the Christchurch Massacres, perpetrated by an Australian.

Selected for their existing contribution to this dialogue, each artist mines and interrogates their own histories for their artwork. Together, the complex, nuanced and diverse works portray Australia as a community that respects difference and honours diversity and complexity, more effectively than any single dialogue in which we might hope to engage could.

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