Jenny Hall

Jenny Hall

Artist Statement
My artworks are a culmination of a lifetime of observing and absorbing the interplay of light, wind and colour on water. I have rarely lived far from waterways or the ocean, so my focus has continued as ‘plein air’ drawings and paintings in watercolour and inks, which depict these watery worlds. The emerging artworks are layers of memories and sensations, surprises and contrasts, as surfaces meet, corrode, sink and bubble. The interplay between the organic and geometric, natural and man-made, fluid and static. The EDGES.

Group Exhibition
2020 ‘Take 6’ for IWD, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney
2009 – 2011 Kurringai Art Centre Tutor Exhibition, Sydney.
1988 Sculpture and Ceramics Exhibition, Wharf Gallery, Millers Point

Related Work Experience
2018 – 2020 Time for experiments and consolidating painting and drawing practice. Travels in South East Asia, Europe and Australia solo and with groups to further my practice.
2011 – 2017 Visual Arts Teacher, Masada College
2009 – 2011 Tutor at Wenona School,
2009 – 2011 Tutor at Kurringai Art Centre (Painting, life drawing, experimental drawing) – Exhibited at tutor’s exhibition each semester
2009 – 2011 Private tutor at Avalon Life Drawing
1995 – 2018 Life drawing tutor, Brett Whiteley Studio (part-time)
1995 – 2009 Art Educator, Art Gallery of NSW
1995 – 2009 Art Educator, Brett Whiteley Studio
1992 – 1995 Living in the UK. Self-education, courses and workshops in drawing and painting.
1989 – 1992 Casual Visual Arts Teacher at a number of high schools across, Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
1986 –1989 Personal art practice in Life Drawing and Ceramics
1986 – 1989 Visual Arts teacher, Queenwood (part-time)
1981 – 1986 Raising two children and continuing with art practice in drawing, painting and ceramics
1977 – 1980 Visual Arts teacher and Head of Department at Queenwood.
Continued to further my personal art making skills in printmaking, ceramics, drawing and painting
1976 Travel in Japan, including teaching ESL and studying short courses in ceramics + traditional ink painting
1975 – 1976 Visual Arts Teacher, Howard of Effingham School, UK
Continued experiments in painting and drawing and short courses in a variety of mediums.
1973 – 1975 Travelling, self-education and art practice in South East Asia and Europe
1973 Visual Arts Teacher, Murwillumbah High School
Continued my personal art practice in life drawing, painting and ceramics.
1972 Visual Arts Teacher, Tweed River High School. Continued my personal art practice in painting and drawing
1968 – 1971 Diploma of Art Education, National Art School and Alexander Mackie College, Sydney