Jane’s Grey
The Deep Oceanic Triad · 07 of 14
First Female ADF Veteran Elected to Federal Parliament · 2014–2017, 2019–present
Her achievement
Enlisting in the Australian Army at 18, Jacqui Lambie served a decade across the Transport Corps and Military Police before being medically discharged.
Entering the Senate in 2014, she became the first female veteran elected to federal parliament, using a crossbench position to drive inquiries into military mental health, reform veteran compensation, and establish the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
The materiality
Formulated from fused Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna, Jane’s Grey resists splitting even under granulation medium.
Instead of separating into individual colours, the paint clumps into heavy charcoal-and-slate clusters that grip the tissue ridges. In the peripheral bursts these fused particles scatter into a gritty atmospheric ash.
The pigment resembles weathered slate, military steel and iron-rich earth. Sharp dark contours for unvarnished determination; granulating blooms for a pragmatic force that holds government to account for those who served.
Macro detail
Look closely
The fused particles clump into charcoal-and-slate clusters on the ridges. In the bursts they scatter as a gritty ash wash — rugged, industrial, unwilling to separate into pretty colours. What happens to the pigment where the tissue paper rises?