1977-79 College of Fine Art, Sydney (University of NSW)

1982-98 Various teaching positions at University of NSW; University of Sydney; National Art School, Sydney; Randwick CAE,

Sydney

2001 - College of Fine Art, Sydney (University of NSW)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981 Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney

1985 Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

1986 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1987 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1988 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1998 Beaver Galleries, Canberra

“Flower-fish”, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

1999 Customs House, Sydney

2000 “Imps, Goddesses, Tricksters and the Spirit of theTree”, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2001 “Australian Dreamscapes”, Bartley Drey Gallery, London

2002 “Odd couples - transitional creatures”, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2004 “Metempsychosis”, The Foyer Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts

“Plant People, Soul Flowers”, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney University

2005 “Plant People - Soul Flowers”, Beaver Galleries, Canberra

2007 “Creatures of consequence”. Beaver Galleries, Canberra

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1981 Mayfair Ceramic Award Exhibition

“New Directions in Australian Ceramics”, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

1982 “Australian Crafts 1982”, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne

“Artists - Ceramics”, Wollongong Art Gallery

1983 “Australian Crafts 1983”, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne

“Indulgences”, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney

1984 “Australian Crafts 1984”, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne

“Image and Surface”, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney

1985 “Celebration”, collaborative mural and sculpture with Robyn Gordon, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

“Just for the Show”, Shepparton Art Gallery

“Clay & Fibre”, Orange Regional Art Gallery

“The Patterned Edge”, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney

1986 First National Ceramic Award

1988 Stuart Devlin Award Exhibition, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1989 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

“Contemporary Australian Ceramics”, Couturier Gallery, L.A., USA

Perth International Crafts Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia

1990 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Tao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1991-92 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1992 Gallery L of Hamburg, Germany

1993 CINAFE, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

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“The Family Show”, Despard Gallery, Hobart

“Modern Hybrids”, Despard Gallery, Hobart

1994 CINAFE, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

1995 SOFA, Miami, USA

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenze, Italy

“Delinquent Angel”, Australian Historical, Aboriginal and Contemporary Ceramics

1996 SOFA, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

“Free the Beast”, Despard Gallery, Hobart

1997 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney

Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney

Kutani International Invitation, Kutani, Japan

SOFA, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

1998 SOFA, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

1999 SOFA, Chicago, USA (Despard Gallery)

“Teawares: towards 2000”, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne

2000 “Celebration”, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney

Australian Ceramics, Marrianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany

2001 International Ceramics, Rufford Craft Center, Nottingham, UK

“Australian Dreamscapes”, Bartley Drey Gallery, London

2003 The Christmas Show, The Ceramic Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

Ceramics, The Australian and New Zealand Context. Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery

2004 “The Hollow and the Whole; Contemporary Ceramics”, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

“Singular Visions”, Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW

AWARDS / COMMISSIONS

1987 Eight ceramic murals for Sheraton International Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA

70ft long ceramic mural for Darling Harbour, Sydney

1990 Fish panels for Vatuele Resort, Fiji

1991 6 metre tall sculpture for Joshua Berger, Paddington, Sydney

2002 Acquisitive award - Schubert International Ceramic Award, Gold Coast, Qld

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1986 Exhibition review, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December

1987 Spirit & Place - Artworks on Commonwealth Properties in Australia, Pot Still Press

Exhibition review, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April

1988 A Collectors Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics, Janet Mansfield, Craftsman House

New Art Two - New Directions in Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House

The Elton John Collection, Volume IV, Diverse Collection, Sotherbys

Exhibition review, Australian Financial Review, 16 September

1989 Pottery Decoration, John Gibson, AC Black, London

1989 Aspects of Art, L Tesorrero & H Nilson, Science Press

1990 Exhibition review, Huntleys Australian Art Investor, February

1992 Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 7

1995 Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand, Janet Mansfield, Craftsman House

1996 Australian Art and Artists, Sue Melville and Julie Rollinson, Science Press

1997 Masters of Their Craft, Norris Iannou, Craftsman House

Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 30

1998 Pottery in Australia, No. 37/3, September

Exhibition review, Priscilla Henderson, Muse, March

A Collectors Guide to Contemporary Ceramics, Janet Mansfield. Crafsman Press

“Element of whimsy in creative ceramics”, Myra McIntyre, Canberra Times, 20 February

2000 Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 20 November

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“Wild with whimsy”, Fran Kennely, Canberra Times, 2 July

2002 “Elemental beauty from the earth”, Meredith Hinchliffe, Canberra Times, 3.October

2003 Ceramics Art and Perception, no. 52

2004 Australian Art Review. Issue 5.

2005 “Strange figures of deep mutation”, Meredith Jinchliffe, Canberra Times, 1 March

2006 Australian Art Review. Issue 11.

500 Animals in Clay, Lark Books

REPRESENTED

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart;

Queensland Art Gallery; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Art Gallery of

South Australia; Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Aichi Prefecture Government

Design Collection, Japan; Snowy Mountain Authority, Cooma; University of NSW; Darling Downs Institute, Qld; Orange

Regional Gallery, NSW; Shepparton Regional Gallery, Vic; Queensland Institute of Technology; Gold Coast Regional

Gallery, Qld; Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW

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Using earthenware clay and an array of vibrantly coloured glazes, Jenny Orchard brings to life her exotic hybrid “Creatures”, each one possessing a mesmeric charisma and exhibiting a complete defiance of convention.  In her latest body of work, Jenny explains, the creatures are all multispecies; they embody a multiplicity of forms without implying a hierarchy.  “Once laboratory discards and misfits they now visit me from a special place I call ‘Metempsychosia’, I recreate their forms for you so that they may tell their stories”.  Jenny’s  hybrids are at once plant and animal yet show signs of the technological exploitations and explorations that have created them. These heterogeneous totems have a physicality of size within the gallery space that gives them a shamanistic presence, the viewer seduced by the myriad of detail and range of surface texture each contains.  They rejuvenate within us a child-like wonder of life on the planet, and conversely invite us to contemplate the darker notions of our meddling with it.

Born in Turkey, Jenny grew up in Zimbabwe and emigrated to Australia in 1976.  She studied at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, receiving her BA in 1980.  Jenny has exhibited widely in Australia and has participated in shows in Japan, Germany, Italy and the USA.  Her work has been extensively acquired and is represented, amongst others, in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.