Unearthed: Jason Fitzgerald

Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present the new solo exhibition from Brisbane-based artist, Jason Fitzgerald, Unearthed. 

These works sit somewhere between ruin and object. They feel unearthed rather than made, as though recovered from an uncertain past rather than assembled in the present. Fragments appear to have endured long after their original purpose was forgotten, bearing the physical burden of time while resisting a fixed narrative.

Forms suggest something once whole, now altered. Excavated, displaced and reassembled, each element shifts slightly: misaligned, adjusted, refusing an uninterrupted return to its imagined origin. Rather than concealing these interruptions, the sculptures depend on them.

Familiar enough to evoke archaeology, they remain deliberately elusive, existing somewhere between artefact, architecture and invention. They invite the viewer to project stories onto them while withholding any definitive account of where they came from or what they once were. They carry a sense of age without origin: objects that feel discovered rather than constructed. Lost, then found again.

Image credit: Jason Fitzgerald, Carcass (1 – 6), 2026, glazed stoneware with rust finish, dimensions vary