Women In Art 278 Congratulates Cover Page Artist Jennifer Mourin Of Malaysia, Who Won The Global Family Art Contest.
February 22nd, 2015 - Penang, Pe
January, 2014 - Interview and profile as featured cover page artist, and winner of the Global Family art contest in Art278 Magazine.
“My art features strong women. It celebrates women responding to the on-going changes in their environment and communities - as creators, as care-givers, mothers, lovers, goddesses and more”.
Jennifer Mourin is a self taught Malaysian artist of Eurasian descent, living and working in Penang. She uses mostly acrylics and oil-inks, but loves the fluidity of gouache. Benevolently haunted by memories of her mother’s Thai village in Kelantan (North east Malaysia), she turned her love of sarongs the women wore, and the strength of the women there, into totems for her artistic identity. One consistenly recurring theme in her art is breastfeeding, as Jennifer is incredulous at how such a loving, nurturing act is often considered a controversial act in society, with women regularly maligned for doing so.