Penny Jensz
Throughout history artists have acted as a conscience for society. Penny Jensz is at once an artist, and a dedicated student of the human condition. She believes art can serve as "an important tool for re engaging an audience who have been desensitised by global media, and an insatiable appetite for entertainment".
Her work has evolved from postgraduate study in fine arts. Jensz has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication at RMIT and more recently a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art at the VCA. She was pre-selected for the 2005 Cromwell’s Art Prize and the Warrnambool Social Commentary Prize, and her work appeared in the Beijing Biennale. Over the last decade she has exhibited at manifold galleries throughout Australia. Her work is held in private and corporate collections within Australia and internationally.
Education-
2003, Graduate Diploma in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1991, Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007, Penny Jensz, Greenwood Gallery, Melbourne
2006,Landscape of the Australian Conscience, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery,
Melbourne
2006,Cerebral Tears, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Melbourne Art Fair 2007, Melbourne
2007 - High-Arts, Highlands, Victoria
2005 - Beijing Biennale, Beijing
2005 - The Naked Truth, Dickerson Art Gallery, Sydney
2005 - The Naked Truth, Dickerson Art Gallery, Melbourne
2005 - Customisation, Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne
2005 - The Discovery Art Show, Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne
2005 - The Harries National Digital Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2005 - Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Melbourne
2005 - Julie Millowick Aquistive Photographic Award, Castlemaine Sate Festival, Castlemaine
2005 - Daylesford Photographic Biennale, Daylesford
2005 - International Digital Art Awards, on line and touring exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2004 - ACMP Australian Photographer’s Collection No 10, 101 Gallery, Melbourne
2004 - New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2003 - Graduate Show, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2002 - Rights of Passage Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
AWARDS
2005 - Finalist, 2005 Cromwell’s Art Prize
2004 - Finalist, New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
2004 - Australian Institute of Professional Photography, (Victorian Division),
silver award in Portrait category, Phon
2004 - Australian Institute of Professional Photography, (Victorian Division),
silver award in Portrait category, Alex
2004 - Australian Institute of Professional Photography, (Victorian Division),
silver award in Portrait category, John
2004 - Australian Institute of Professional Photography, (Victorian Division),
silver award in Portrait category, Eliot
2003 - Australian Commercial Magazine Photographers permanent
collection No.10
1997 - Dimensional Art Directors and Illustrators Awards Show, New York, silver award
1996 - Dimensional Art Directors and Illustrators Award Show, New York, bronze award
COMMISSIONS
Jensz’s work is held in private collections in Australia and the United States
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS
2005 - Morrow, Christine, Contemporary art and Culture Critique,
UN magazine, Issue 3 Autumn, 2005
2005 - International Digital Art Award 2005, Desktop, Issue #204, April 2005
2004 - New Social Commentaries, Warnambool Art Gallery, New Social
Commentaries Prize Catalogue, 2004
2003 - Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition, Catalogue
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