Narelle Jubelin’s research-based practice directs attention to fragments of larger histories. Her work traces the complex interrelationships between the alternatingly dystopian and utopian narratives of imperialism and modernism, demonstrating that small things can serve as analytical tools for a deeper, more probing understanding of dominant discourses. Within this framework, the life-shaping fields of object design and architecture recur, often considered through a social lens. This sense of extracting moments from much broader scenarios is underscored by her insistence on the miniature as both a pictorial format and an ethic of production. These concerns extend to observations of the movement of economic systems through which objects circulate. Jubelin’s favoured medium — hand-scaled petit point sewing (cotton thread on silk mesh) — brings together photographic and painterly modes.

Jubelin has exhibited extensively internationally including multiple solo museum exhibitions curated by leading curators. Recently, the Centro Galego de arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, presented Narelle Jubelin — Nalgures, curated by Natalia Poncela López, with an accompanying publication (2022) and Jubelin presented The Housing Question with fellow artists, Helen Grace and Sherre Delys, curated by Julie Ewington, at Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney (2019).