Forever Desperate

Forever Desperate is the latest installment in a buoyantly eccentric yet ultimately tragic practice that the artist describes as “translating the anxiety, violence, humour, and football-induced nervous breakdowns into big broken objects.” Summarising his proposed work as ‘a TAB that has been shot to pieces by a pump-action shot-gun’, Tjhung will combine his financial ruin and violent fantasies to produce another epic work from a forever-desperate man.

 Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Jensen Tjhung has lived and worked in Melbourne since 2000 after leaving Film School at Curtin University to have the year 1999 “completely disappear from memory”. Tjhung completed his BFA at Victoria College of Art in 2002 and has exhibited in Niagara Galleries, TCB, Bus, Seventh, and the Victorian Arts Centre. His work has been described by Richard Watts in The Program (26/5/04) as “beautiful and despairing” and by Gabriella Coslovich in The Age (14/01/03) as “ramshackle alters to the manic emotions one expends when love goes terribly wrong”.