Solo Exhibition: Jas Shalimar

Jas Shalimar is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist working across drawing, painting, and object-based practice. Employing figurative composition and evocative imagery, her work explores desire, identity, personal mythology, and the construction of meaning through storytelling.

Working intuitively across material and image, motifs such as chairs, hands, windows, and fabric begin to recur, forming a kind of alternate lexicon. This visual language constructs lyrical narratives that weave together the personal and the archetypal. Playing with costume and adornment, this intuitive logic moves towards the body, examining how identity is collected, constructed, and performed.

Growing up in a house built by her father, where chairs hung from the ceiling and secret passageways threaded through the house. Jas has developed an enduring sensitivity to the symbolic potential of objects, spaces, and the imaginative possibilities embedded in everyday life.

Jas graduated with a BFA (Honours) from RMIT in 2019. Her debut solo exhibition, Something Feels Familiar: Memorialising the Everyday, was presented in 2023 at Meat Market Melbourne. She has been celebrated as a finalist in a range of prizes, including the National Emerging Art Prize (2024), Gosford Art Prize (2025), and Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (2026). In 2025, she was one of the three recipients of the Centre for Contemporary Photography x Metro-Auto-Photo commission at RMIT Gallery.