I will be one the Creatives on site during the Creative Harvest Festival of edible gardens. With my little etching press I will be demonstrating 'nature printing' onto paper. I directly use botanical samples to create impressions of the plant, great detail can be achieved with ink and paper. Some of the plants I will be working with are from my host Adele's garden. Called 'Darna' this wonderful two and half acre garden is located at Darnum, in West Gippsland. I will have many prints, greeting cards and other gift items on display and for sale.
Find, Save, Sign
Organic Threads
Verdant Drift I
Seven inch Cake Tin
Recall II
Afternoon Tea Cake
Backyard Things
Bush Walk IResumé
Jenny Peterson. b.1957, Yarram, Victoria, Australia
| 2015 | Master of Fine Art, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria |
| 2002 | Graduate Diploma in Training and Development, University of Melbourne |
| 1994 | Postgraduate Certificate of Social Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD |
| 1993 | Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), JCU, Townsville |
| 1983 | Diploma of Visual Arts, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria |
| 2024 | First Prize, Michael Beazer Works on Paper Award, EGAG, Bairnsdale. |
| 2022 - 2023 | Guest Curator for Fellow Travellers, prints from the LRG permanent collection, Morwell, Vic. |
| 2019 | Project Grant, Australian Government Regional Arts Fund: Printed Garden, Naturefact Artifact. Community workshops & exhibition Horsham & Natimuk, Vic. |
| 2018 | Creative Gippsland, Latrobe City residency at arc Yinnar: Autumn Garden Print Project. |
| 2016 | Quick Response Grant, Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, Plate making at Agave Print Studio, Trentham. |
| 2015 | Print Council of Australia, print commission |
| 2013 | Monash University Post Graduate Travel Grant, Prato, Italy. |
| 2011 | Month of Print program, Arts Victoria & Print Council of Australia; Impact 7 Conference, Melbourne, 'Found Metal' workshop tutor. |
| 2009 | Quick Response Grant, Australian Government RAF, Impact 6 Conference, UK |
| 2008 | Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra, Printmaker-in-Residence (Interstate artist) |
| 2006 | Site, Surface and Memory, Arts Victoria, Arts Development Grant |
| 2005 | 7DAYS Project, Allan's Walk Artist Space, Bendigo, artist-in-residence |
| 2002 | Print Council of Australia, print commission |
| 2024 | One Walk, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan Vic. |
| 2023 | Nature Walk, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan, Vic. |
| 2019 | Visceral Terrain: Port Jackson Press, Melbourne. |
| 2015 - 2016 | Find. Save. Keep: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, & 2016 at Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria. |
| 2015 | Find and Save: Port Jackson Press, Melbourne. |
| 2013 | Souvenir: Fortyfive Downstairs Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne |
| 2013 | Souvenir: Impact8 Conference, DJCAD, University of Dundee, Scotland. |
| 2011 | This Memory: Coal Creek Gallery, Korumburra & Courthouse Gallery, Yarram, Vic |
| 2009 | Site, Surface, Transformation of the Commonplace: Impact 6, UWE, Bristol, England |
| 2009 | Site, Surface: Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria & Megalo Print Studios, ACT |
| 2008 | Domestic Collections: Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Domestic Collections: Gallery arc, Yinnar, Victoria |
| 2005 | Surface, Fragment and Figment, survey exhibition: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell |
| 2004 | Landlines and Rural Armour: Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Tin Suit: Tacit Contemporary Art, Thornbury, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Ephemeral Landscape: Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria |
| 1997 | Organic Threads: Armadale and Sale, Victoria |
| 1995 | By the River: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland |
| 1994 | On The Strand: Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria |
| 1993 | Fragments: Umbrella Studios, Townsville, Queensland |
| 2024 | Full Circle: art in the round, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Vic. |
| 2024 | Michael Beazer Works on Paper Award, East Gippsland Art Gallery Bairnsdale. |
| 2021 | 50 Artists, 50 Years, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell. |
| 2021 | Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania. |
| 2019 | Peebles Print Prize, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop |
| 2018 | Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards |
| 2017 | Fremantle Print Award, W.A. |
| 2017 | My Big Backyard: Reflections on Landscape, curated by Jenny Peterson, arc Yinnar & 2018 at CASPA, Castlemaine, Vic. Supported by RAF Quick Response Grant. |
| 2017 | Voices: Three Identities in Contemporary Printmaking. With David Fairbairn & Milan Milojevic, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne. |
| 2016 | Linden Art Prize, Linden New Art, St. Kilda, Melbourne. |
| 2016 | Now is the Hour: Recent Acquisitions, LRG, Morwell, Vic |
| 2015 | 3rd International Print Exhibition, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, USA. |
| 2014 | Mary & Lou Senini Student Art Award, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Vic. |
| 2014 | New Ground: Contemporary Printmaking, curator Mardi Nowak, the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Vic. |
| 2013 | Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania |
| 2013 | Electric Valley Studios 2, Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland |
| 2012 | arc at 30: arc Yinnar members exhibition, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic. |
| 2011 | Fair and Square, Joyes Hall Gallery, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW |
| 2010 | Contemporary & Collectible Australian Printmakers, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong |
| 2010 | PIPE'10 Penang International Print Exhibition, Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, Malaysia |
| 2009 | Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 2008, 2007 | Works on Paper, BSG, Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Victoria |
| 2006 | Sensation: Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland |
| 2005 | arcworks on Tour: Left Bank Artist Co-op, Beechworth, Victoria |
| 2004 | Corrugated! Celebrating 150 years of corrugated iron in Australia: Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW |
| 2004 | New Energies 2004: Meeniyan Art Gallery, Cowwarr & Bairnsdale, Victoria |
| 2003 | Beating Around the Bush, Three Artists: Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 2003 | City of Banyule Art Award: Ivanhoe, Melbourne |
| 2002 - 2003 | Art on Tour Scratching the Ground: Cowwarr, Yinnar, Bairnsdale, Victoria |
| 2001 | City of Whyalla Art Prize: Whyalla, South Australia |
| 2000 | Shell Fremantle Print Award: W.A. & Swan Hill Print & Drawing Awards: Vic. |
| 1999 | Art at the Centre, staff exhibition: Switchback Gallery, Monash Uni Gippsland, Victoria |
| 1997 | Spring Festival of Drawing: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria |
| 1996 | Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Exhibition: Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW |
| 1996 | Prints Acquisitive Exhibition (also '94): MPRG, Victoria |
| 1995 | The New Energy, Contemporary Artists in Gippsland: LRG, Morwell, Victoria |
| 1994 | Correspondences: Dom Kultury, Krakow, Poland |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| Brisbane Grammar School | |
| Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania | |
| Canson Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne | |
| City of Yarra, Victoria | |
| Commercial Studies Centre, Townsville, Queensland | |
| Curtin University, Western Australia | |
| East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, Vic. | |
| Firestation Print Workshop, Melbourne | |
| Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic | |
| Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Federation University, Churchill, Victoria | |
| Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland | |
| Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville | |
| Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria | |
| Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville | |
| Print Council of Australia, Melbourne | |
| QUT Art Museum, Brisbane | |
| RMIT Gallery, Victoria | |
| St. Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne | |
| State Library of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Tamworth City Gallery, NSW | |
| Townsville College of TAFE, Queensland | |
| Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW | |
| Universiti Sains Malaysia | |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, USA | |
| University of Wollongong, NSW |
| 2023 | Fellow Travellers, Jenny Peterson curator's essay, Print Council of Australia online: https://www.printcouncil.org.au/fellow-travellers/ |
| 2021 | '50 Artists, 50 Years', Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, exhibition catalogue. |
| 2019 | 'Spirits in the Bush: The Art of Gippsland', Simon Gregg, Australian Scholarly, Melbourne, 2019. |
| 2015 | 'Gippsland Road Signs Transformed into Art', Zoe Ferguson, broadcast & online article, ABC local radio, Dec 14, 2015. |
| 2015 | 'Road Signs Reveal the Way', Farrah Plummer, newspaper editorial, LV Express, Nov 26, 2015, p12. |
| 2012 | 'Thirty Years of Art', Melody Song, newspaper editorial on arc Yinnar & members, Morwell & Churchill Advertiser in LV Express, Feb 13, 2012, p.1 & 3. |
| 2012 | arc 2007 to 2012. Jenny Peterson in 'arc at 30', Editor Sue Pavlovich, Melbourne 2012, isbn 978.0.9873671.0.5 |
| 2011 | 'Jenny is always ready to be on her metal', Andrew Mole, newspaper editorial, The Weekly Times, Aug. 10, 2011, p.69. |
| 2006 | 'Artist Shares Her Rustic Form of Printmaking'; Anna Lanyon; newspaper editorial, Portland Observer, July 26 2006, p5 |
| 2006 | 'New Energies 2006: Contemporary Artists of South Gippsland', exhibition catalogue, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Mar. 2006 |
| 2006 | 'Prints from Found Objects', Jenny Peterson, preview article, Imprint, vol. 41, No 4, p12, Print Council of Australia, 2006 |
| 2005 | 'Lost Then Found'; James Taylor; newspaper editorial, The Bendigo Advertiser, Sep 1 2005, p21 & 27 |
| 2005 | 'Surface, Fragment and Figment'; Meg Viney; exhibition catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, May 2005 |
| 2004 | 'Jenny Peterson: Landlines and Rural Armour', Catheryn Thompson, preview in Imprint, vol.39, no.3, 2004, p.25. Print Council of Australia |
| 2004 | 'New Energies 2004: Contemporary Artists of South Gippsland', exhibition catalogue, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Mar. 2004 |
| 2004 | 'Prints Suit Jenny like Ned Kelly's Armour', newspaper editorial, Leongatha Star, Feb. 17, 2004, p 6 |
| 2003 | 'Jenny Peterson Makes her Mark', newspaper editorial, Yarram Standard News, Nov. 12, 2003, p 6 |
| 2002 | 'Tin Suit', Kerrilee Ninnis, catalogue essay, Tacit Contemporary Art (Melbourne School of Art), Oct. 2002. |
| 1998 | 'Ephemeral Landscape', Catheryn Thompson, Imprint, vol. 33, No.3, 1998, p.22,23, exhibition review |
| 1995 | 'The New Energy: Contemporary Artists in Gippsland', exhib. catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Oct.1995 |
