Opening Friday 24 October
Structure, uncertainty and nostalgia are constants in Jenny’s work. In Tonality of Home she plays with the familiarity and patina of domestic objects and spaces. Colour, tone and found objects reference childhood places of safety and security.
Material exploration underpins Jenny’s practice. Fossicked offcuts and found objects combine with refined surfaces and ceramic details to form considered assemblages. Underlying structure of line and geometry are overlaid with rich colours and timber veneer in delicately layered paintings. Installation elements reveal personal and collective histories, reflecting Jenny’s experiences and those who inhabited these spaces during these times.
Bio
Jenny Gill Schirmer is an emerging artist whose practice explores a connection between found objects and deliberately formed materials to conjure elusive memories of time or place.
Jenny graduated from the Byron School of Art in 2021, receiving the Northern Rivers Community Gallery Graduate Award. She has held solo exhibitions at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery (2022, 2024) and the Byron School of Art Project Space (2024) She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including BSA-10 at Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah and Echo at Side Gallery, Brisbane and the Brisbane Grammar School Art Show, Brisbane. Jenny was a finalist in the Byron Art Magazine Art Prize in 2023.
Jenny lives and works in Lennox Head, Northern NSW.