Jenn creates works that are both contemplative and forward-looking. By combining natural and reclaimed materials with sustainable techniques, her works blur perceptual boundaries between the human and the non-human, the past, the present, and the future, as well as between the natural and the artificial. Jenn crafts sculptural artworks that reimagine and reflect nature amidst ecological upheaval. Her forms, which speak to nature and its animals, are rooted in a cultural connection to Country. She begins with what the land provides—driftwood, reeds, skeletal remains, feathers, shells, metal or gems, and upcycled industrial materials—and transforms them
through sculptural and traditional making techniques.
Jenn’s works highlight both the fragility and resilience of nature and ecosystems currently disrupted by urban expansion and environmental change. Functioning as thresholds between time, Jenn blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, reflecting both the vulnerability and resilience of life in the Human Epoch.
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Education
Master of Visual Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia, (current)
Bachelor of Art and Design, SCU, Australia
Master of Education, USQ, Australia
Bachelor of Social Welfare, CSU, Australia
Exhibitions
2024 Koori Mail Art Prize Exhibition, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
2024 Jellurgal Gallery, Gold Coast Hwy, Currumbin, QLD
2023 Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW
2023 Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
2022 Graduate Exhibition, SCU, Lismore, NSW
2022 Ingenuity Small Sculpture Prize finalist, Mullumbimby Service Club, Mullumbimby, NSW
2022 Heritage Revisited, Derwent Valley Barracks Gallery, Tasmania,
2021 Bush Gifts, Clarence Valley Women’s Organisation, Maclean, NSW
2021 Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
2020 NRRG Exhibition, Northern Rivers Regional Gallery, Ballina, NSW
2020 Mannalargenna Festival, Melythina Tiakana Warrana Corporation, Tasmania
2019 Fire Stories, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2019 Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award, Grafton Regional Gallery
2018 NAIDOC Exhibition, Iluka Emporium Gallery, Iluka, NSW
2018 Clarence Valley Plunge Festival, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Awards
2024 Finalist Koori Mail Art Prize, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2023 Chancellor’s Art Prize, Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia
2019 Emergent Artist Prize Clarence Valley Indigenous Art Award (CIVAA), Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Residencies
2023 Corridor Air, Wyangalla, NSW
Articles
2022 Featured artist, Blank Art Mag, Gold Coast, QLD