2023
Australian Galleries, Sydney Solo exhibition Mount Wilson and other works
Bank of America: 10th Anniversary Exhibition
2022
Bank of America Solo exhibition Connecting with nature
The State Library of NSW Acquisition Concertina Sketchbook
SH Ervin Gallery Group Exhibition The Natural World
2021
Australian Galleries, Sydney Solo exhibition Autumn & Spring
National Art School, Sydney Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize #22
South Australian Museum Finalist Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
2020
PLC Sydney Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
Bega Regional Gallery Acquisition Sea Sponge Drawings
Grafton Regional Gallery Finalist Jacaranda Drawing Prize
Newcastle Regional Gallery Group exhibition Repeater
2019
Australian Galleries, Melbourne Solo exhibition Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities
Australian Galleries, Melbourne Group exhibition Papermade
Noosa Regional Gallery Finalist Lyn McCrae Memorial Drawing Prize
PLC Sydney Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
Newcastle Regional Gallery Acquisition Desert Rocks, suite of 18 charcoal drawings
2018
Australian Galleries, Sydney Solo exhibition Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair Works on paper Works on paper
Turner Galleries, Perth Finalist Mandorla Art Award
PLC Sydney Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
2017
Museum of Economic Botany, South Australia Botanic Gardens Solo exhibition Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Finalist Art on Paper Award
2016
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie Solo exhibition Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities
Raynor Hoff Gallery, National Art School, Sydney Group exhibition Drawing Conversations 2015
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Finalist Art on Paper Award
Arts NSW Development Grant Support for Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition
2014
Art Gallery of NSW Acquisition NSW Desert Plants, a suite of 48 charcoal drawings
The University of Technology, Sydney Group exhibition Living Data – Conversations Between Artists and Scientists
Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra Group exhibition Contemporary Australian Drawing
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie Group exhibition Shadowline Contemporary Drawing
The University of Newcastle Gallery Group exhibition Shadowline Contemporary Drawing
PLC Sydney Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
2013
Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart Finalist Hutchins Art Prize
Broken Hill Regional Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
University of Western Sydney, Margaret Whitlam Gallery Group exhibition Vibratory Fields and Surfaces
Grafton Regional Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Lake Macquarie City Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Orange Regional Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
National Art School Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
2012
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition Lumiere
New England Regional Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Buratti Fine Art, Perth Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Walcha Art Gallery Group exhibition Not the Way Home
Stella Downer Gallery Group exhibition Group exhibition
Melbourne Art Fair representing Artist's Profile magazine
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
2011
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Group exhibition Wattle, Contemporary Australian Art
Invited by Artist’s Profile magazine to participate in Not the Way Home visit to outback NSW, filmed by ABC
2010
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Tim Olsen Gallery Group exhibition Miscellanea
PLC Sydney Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
2009
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition Drawings 2009
2008
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition Illumination
Tim Olsen Gallery Group exhibition 2x2
2007
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition La Ville des lumieres
2006
Finalist Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Awarded residency at the Cite International des Arts, Paris
2005
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition Solo exhibition
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW Group exhibition Going Out There
2004
Melbourne Art Fair
2003
Tim Olsen Gallery Solo exhibition Night’s Journey
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Art Gallery of NSW Group exhibition Dobell Drawing Prize for Drawing – The First 10 Years 2001
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Group exhibition Australian Artists at the Cite
King Street Gallery Solo exhibition Conversations With Clouds
2000
Art Gallery of NSW Acquisition Visibility/Unvisibility
Art Gallery of NSW Finalist Dobell Drawing Prize
Wentworth Falls Grammar School Acquisition & Finalist Kedumba Drawing Prize
King Street Gallery on Burton Group exhibition
Jennifer Keeler-Milne lives and works in inner Sydney as a practicing artist. She is best known for her work NSW Desert Plants, 2011, a collection of 48 drawings that was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Jennifer’s Drawn to a Cabinet of Curiosities was exhibited at the South Australian Botanic Gardens in 2017. Jennifer’s work has been selected ten times for inclusion in the Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition, including in 2021. Her work is widely collected in Australia and internationally.
Jennifer runs her own drawing school, Dare to Draw, teaching principles and techniques of drawing. A former museum educator with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and lecturer at Sydney University, UTS and the National Art School. Jennifer holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Master of Art Administration.
Collections
The Art Gallery of NSW
Botanic Gardens, Adelaide
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery
Bega Valley regional Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Collection
Artbank
Victorian College of the Arts
Private collections: London, New York, Cambridge, San Francisco, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne
Bibliography
The art of connecting, Jane Watters, November 2022
Second nature, John McDonald, February 12, 2022 The Sydney Morning Herald
Destination Sydney: Catalogue Essay, Anne Ryan, January 2022
The art that made me, Art Gallery of NSW, Look Magazine,
Jennifer Keeler-Milne Talking with painters, Maria Stoljar http://jenniferkeelermilne.com.au/talking-with-painters-maria-stoljar
Jennifer Keeler-Milne returns to painting in Autumn & Spring, Briony Downes, Art Guide, June 2021
Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Artist Profile, June 2021 http://jenniferkeelermilne.com.au/artistprofile20210623
In lockdown, she collected autumn leaves and turned them into art, Robin Powell, Sydney Morning Herald, June 2021 http://jenniferkeelermilne.com.au/2021-06-18 An artist;s salute to the fallen, Steve Meacham, Sydney Morning Herald, June 2021 http://jenniferkeelermilne.com.au/an-artists-salute
Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities: Catalogue Essay, Tony Kanellos, Museum of Economic Botany, SA Botanic gardens, April 2017
Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities : catalogue Essay, Anne Ryan Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, March 2016
Shadowline Catalogue Essay, Louise Martin Chew Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Jan 2014
Art lovers, Judith White, Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, 2013, p280
Contemporary Australian Drawing:20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan, Helen Campbell, Art Gallery of New South Wales, pp 67,76,77,79, 2012
Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald Outback inspiration