Narelle Jubelin’s research-based practice directs our attention towards fragments of larger histories. Her work furnishes evidence of complex interrelationships between the alternately dystopian and utopian stories of imperialism and modernism, demonstrating that in small things lie the analytical tools for a deeper, more probing understanding of dominant discourses. In the case of the ideals of modernism, the life-impacting fields of object design and architecture occupy her work often viewed through the lens of the social. This sense of moments taken from scenarios more vast is emphasised by her insistence upon the miniature as both a pictorial format and an ethics for production of objects. These thoughts in turn feed into observations of the flow of economic systems within which objects circulate. Jubelin’s favoured medium of hand-scaled petit point sewing (cotton thread on silk mesh) is an amalgamation of the considerations of the photographic and the painterly. 

Jubelin has exhibited extensively internationally. In 1990, she exhibited in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale, curated by Giovanni Carandente. In 2022, the Centro Galego de arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, presented Narelle Jubelin — Nalgures, curated by Natalia Poncela López, with an accompanying monographic publication.