I will be at arc Yinnar over this weekend with a display of prints, cards and other goods. I will be using my portable etching press to demonstrate nature printing onto paper. Link for more information on the venues and times in Latrobe Valley openhousemelbourne.org
In My Backyard
Terre, Pinus
One Walk no. 1
Driving Blue
Backyard Things
Climb No. 2
Climb
Terre, Betula pendulaResumé
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 |
| 2026 | Collectors Edition: Timeless Prints, A & C, Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Vic. |
| 2025 | Fragile Forest, Refugium, Gallery arc, Yinnar. Five artists respond to a pristine bush site. |
| 2025 | Gathering Time and Place, Stockyard Gallery, Foster, Vic. |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
