2021
Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize 22, National Art School, March 26 - May 22, 2021
Finalist, South Australian Museum, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, December 2020 - March 2021
2020
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize exhibition Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney, February 28 - March 27, 2020
2019
Solo exhibition Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities Australian Galleries, Collingwood Melbourne, October 15 - November 3, 2019
Group Exhibition 28 Derby Street - Papermade Australian Galleries, Collingwood Melbourne February 26 - March 17, 2019
Noosa Regional Gallery, Lyn McCrae Memorial drawing prize exhibition, finalist, November 2 - December 1, 2019
The Other Art Fair: Sydney Upcycle for Saatchi Art, curated by Kate Bryan and with Janet Laurence, James Gordon, Camie Lyons, Alan Jones
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize exhibition finalist Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney, March 1 - March 29, 2019
2018
Solo exhibition Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities Australian Galleries, Paddington Sydney, August 11 - August 30, 2018
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize exhibition finalist, Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney, March 2 - March 30, 2018
2017
Solo exhibition Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities The Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide, South Australia April 9 - July 9, 2017
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize exhibition finalist Hazelhurst Regional Gallery May 20 - July 16, 2017
2016
Solo exhibition Drawn to a cabinet of curiosities The Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie March 11 - April 24, 2016
Group exhibition Drawing conversations: Rayner Hoff Gallery, National Art School, Sydney September 2016
2015
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize exhibition finalist, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery May 30 - July 26, 2015
Arts NSW Development Grant
2014
Acquisition: NSW desert plants The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group exhibition Living Data: conversations between artists and scientists University of Technology, Sydney August 25 - November 21, 2014
Group exhibition 20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra April 11 - May 18, 2014
Group exhibition Shadowline contemporary drawing | Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Art Gallery January - March, 2014 | University of Newcastle Gallery March - April 2014
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize exhibition Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney
2013
Group exhibition 20 years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing | Grafton Regional Gallery: February 15 - March 24, 2013 | Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery: March 30 -May 5, 2013 | Orange Regional Art Gallery: July 5 - August 18, 2013 | National Art School: August 29 - October 6, 2013 | Tweed River Art Gallery: October 18 - November 24, 2013
Group exhibition Not the way home Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery March 30 - May 12, 2013
Group exhibition Vibratory Fields and Surfaces The Margaret Whitlam Galleries University of Western Sydney March 16 - May 31, 2013
2012
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solo exhibition Lumiere Tim Olsen Gallery May 16 - June 3, 2012
Group exhibition Not the way home SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney May 25 - July 1, 2012 | New England Regional Art Gallery November 16, 2012 - February 3, 2013 | Stella Downer Gallery | Buratti Fine Art, Perth
Melbourne Art Fair
Artist's Profile
2011
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group exhibition: Wattle: Contemporary Australian Art The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Invited by Artist’s Profile magazine to remote area of NSW with 12 other Australian artists, for project “Not the way home” Filmed by ABC
2010
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group exhibition Miscellanea Tim Olsen Gallery
Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize exhibition Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney
2009
Solo exhibition Drawings 2009 Tim Olsen Gallery
2008
Solo exhibition Illuminations Tim Olsen Gallery
Group exhibition 2x2 Tim Olsen Gallery
2007
Solo exhibition La Ville des lumières Tim Olsen Gallery
2006
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Awarded residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris
Fleurieu Peninsula Art prize exhiibition
2005
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solo exhibition Muse: old and new Tim Olsen Gallery, Woollahra April 26 - May 14, 2005 Exhibition opened by Edmund Capon
Group exhibition Going out there Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales
2004
Melbourne Art Fair
2003
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solo exhibition Night's Journey Tim Olsen Gallery
2001
Dobell Drawing Prize: The First Ten Years The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solo exhibition Conversations with clouds King Street Gallery
A studio in Paris: Australian artists at the Cite, SH Ervin Gallery
2000
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group exhibition King Street Gallery on Burton
Kedumba award drawing exhibition
1999
Dobell Drawing Prize exhibition The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Solo exhibition Firmament King Street Gallery
Awarded residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris, Art Gallery of NSW atelier
Group exhibition King Street Gallery on Burton
1998
Girlfriends Casula Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre
Solo exhibition Southdown King Street Gallery on Burton
Group exhibition Desert painters University of New South Wales
Group exhibition King Street Gallery on Burton
Group exhibition VCA 25 year anniversary Victorian Arts Centre
1997
Group exhibition Outwest Westspace, Melbourne
Group exhibition King Street Gallery on Burton
Group exhibition VAST University of Sydney
1991
Awarded Fred Williams Family Prize
VCA Gallery Awards Show
Collections
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Kedumba Drawing Collection
Artbank
Victorian College of the Arts
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Private collections: London; New York; Boston; Miami; San Francisco; Paris; Hong Kong; Sydney; Melbourne
Bibliography
Shadowline catalogue essay, Lousie Martin Chew, Glasshouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, January 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, Helen Campbell, Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, ISBN 9781741740868, December 2012
Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald Outback inspiration, Spectrum, June 16, 2012
Artist's Profile, issue 18, pp.74-75 April 2012, Owen Craven
Sydney Morning Herald, John McDonald “Lines of poetry”,Spectrum p.12, December 10-11 2011
Sydney Morning Herald, Steve Meacham “Secrets of the Old Masters laid bare”, pp.13, 3 September 2010
Sydney Morning Herald, Louise Schwartzkoff “The Critics”, Spectrum pp.18, 14-15 Nov 2009
Inside Out April 2009 ‘Mix Master’, p133. April 2009
The Australian Art Market Report, Gillian Serisier ‘Art allowances’, p30,31. Issue 27 Autumn 2008
The Sun-Herald, Books Extra, Erin O’Dwyer “Creative prelude for young at art’, ppx.49, 1 January 2006
Tim Olsen Gallery Catalogue essay, Anne Ryan, Assistant Curator of Drawing AGNSW, 2005
The Dobell Prize for Drawing The First Ten Years 1993-2002 p40 Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney Morning Herald, Courtney Kidd Exhibitions critics pick Metro, pp.27, 25 May 2001
King Street Gallery on Burton: Catalogue essay, George Alexander 'Conversations with clouds', May 2001
Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Look Magazine, Anne Ryan, 'Paper Collection', pp12-13, July 2001
Sydney Morning Herald, Sebastian Smee Review of Kedumba Drawing Award, October 28, 2000
The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly, Emily Tinson, "Artist reaches for the skies' review of solo exhibition, July 21,1999
Publications for Children
My Big Art Adventure: What colour is that? Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
My Big Art Adventure: What number is that? Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006 Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006 Received a Notable Award from the Children’s Book Council of Australia and selected for the NSW Premier’s reading list.
Born in Melbourne, lives and works in Sydney as a practicing artist. She 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.
