About Jan Cleveringa
Jan Cleveringa is an award-winning emerging contemporary, experimental, multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural change, sustainability, technology and their social impacts resulting in painting, installation/sculpture and video art. Often, he juxtaposes waste in natural environments.
Sydney based, he has a Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney and studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
In 2021 he won Lake Light Sculpture, Jindabyne NSW, in 2019 he won both the Eden Unearthed Art Prize, Eden Gardens NSW and the 2019 Scenic Sculpture Environment Prize, Scenic World, Blue Mountains NSW. In 2018 he received the Highly Commended Prize in the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. He has exhibited painting in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and London. In addition, he has also been awarded several community and public art project commissions.
2022 SWELL ARTWORK – The Corporate Snake, Jan Cleveringa
The Corporate Snake is a conceptual, installation (and video) about waste and sustainability that reimagines 10,000 ‘working-but-discarded’ fluorescent light globes worth $75,000.00 of waste.
The artwork offers a long-term idea open for discussion by suggesting a change via adding a new clause, in law, for all newly future-formed companies for a ‘win-win’ innovation that is positive for both business profit and the community. The idea also recognises that as well as with individuals and governments, the power to change culture rests with business and lies at the start, in the agreement to start a new company.
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Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 9-18 September.