Jordan Halsall: Sentinel

From 14 November 2026

In Sentinel, Melbourne-based artist Jordan Halsall explores the effects of our increasingly digitised world on contemporary life. Through sculptures and paintings that bring together his architecture and fine art practices, Halsall examines the pervasive culture of self-optimisation, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the mediation of our image and lifestyles through screens and tech.

Forms resembling the shakers used for protein drinks recur across Halsall’s sculptural practice, while his Suitaloon paintings—a reference to English architect Michael Webb’s 1967 Suitaloon project—recontextualize Webb’s idea of a wearable, clear plastic inflatable suit designed to function as minimal mobile home for our modern, digital landscape. Blurring the line between architecture and adornment, Halsall prompts us to reflect on our social media presence as a form of suitaloon—a mechanism through which we can both look at the world, and have the world look back through at us.

Jordan Halsall: Sentinel is the first SAM x Gertrude exhibition, a new creative partnership between Shepparton Art Museum and contemporary visual art centre and studio complex, Gertrude.

About the artist

Jordan Halsall (b. 1991 Melbourne, VIC) completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018, Honours at Monash University in 2019, and a Master of Architecture in 2023. Halsall exhibits regularly in public and commercial spaces around Australia and is a Gertrude Studio Artist (2024-26).

Featured artwork: Jordan Halsall, Suitaloon I (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist

Curator:  Caroline Esbenshade, SAM Curator — Exhibitions & Collections

Location: SAM Ceramics Showcase, Level 2

Free