Jenny Peterson. b.1957, Yarram, Victoria, Australia
 
QUALIFICATIONS:
2002 Graduate Diploma in Training and Development, University of Melbourne
1994 Postgrad. Certificate of Soc. Sciences, James Cook University,Townsville
1993 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), JCU, Townsville
1983 Diploma of Visual Arts, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Victoria
 
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS:
2009 Quick Response Professional Development Grant, 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
1997 Firestation Print Workshop Melbourne, Print Portfolio, commission

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Site, Surface: Transformation of the Commonplace, Impact 6, UWE, Bristol, England
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
1999 Prints and Collage: Traralgon, Victoria
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, MUGC, Victoria
1993 Fragments: Umbrella Studios, Townsville, Queensland
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
13th CPM National Print Awards: Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
2008, 2007   Works on Paper, BSG, Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Victoria
2006 Sensation: Switchback Gallery, Monash University Gippsland
New Energies 2006: Contemporary Artists of Gippsland, touring Meeniyan, Warragul, Cowwarr, Yinnar, Victoria
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
New Energies 2004: Meeniyan Art Gallery, Cowwarr & Bairnsdale, Victoria
2003 City of Banyule Art Award: Ivanhoe, Melbourne
Beating Around the Bush: Three Artists Inspired by Regional Experience, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria
2002-03   Art on Tour: Scratching the Ground, Cowwarr, Yinnar, Bairnsdale, Victoria
2001 City of Whyalla Art Prize: South Australia
2000 Shell Fremantle Print Award: W.A.
Swan Hill National Print & Drawing Awards: Victoria
1999 Art at the Centre, staff exhibition: Switchback Gallery, MUGC, Victoria
Purl 2, women artists - recent acquisitions: LRG, Morwell, Victoria
1998 arc Studio Artists: Gallery arc, Yinnar, Victoria
1997 Spring Festival of Drawing: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Diversity, women's exhibition: Cowwarr and Melbourne
1996 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Exhibition: Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
Prints Acquisitive Exhibition (also '94): MPRG, Victoria
1995 The New Energy, Contemporary Artists in Gippsland: LRG, Morwell, Victoria
1994 Correspondences: Dom Kultury, Krakow, Poland
1989 Bush Desert Mountain Shore: CCV Regional Review, Melbourne
1988 Gippsland Prints and Printmakers (also '87): Sale Regional Gallery, Victoria
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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   Commercial Studies Centre, Townsville, Queensland
Curtin University, Western Australia   Firestation Print Workshop, Melbourne
Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, 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
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne   St. Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne
Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria   Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
Townsville College of TAFE, Queensland
  		 
PUBLICATIONS:
Prints from Found Objects, Jenny Peterson, preview article, Imprint, vol. 41, No 4, p12, Print Council of Australia, 2006
'Artist Shares Her Rustic Form of Printmaking'; Anna Lanyon; newspaper editorial, Portland Observer, July 26 2006, p5
'New Energies 2006: Contemporary Artists of South Gippsland', exhibition catalogue, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Mar. 2006
'Lost Then Found'; James Taylor; newspaper editorial, The Bendigo Advertiser, Sep 1 2005, p21 & 27
'Surface, Fragment and Figment'; Meg Viney; exhibition catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, May 2005
'Jenny Peterson: Landlines and Rural Armour', Catheryn Thompson, preview in Imprint, vol.39, no.3, 2004, p.25. Print Council of Australia
'New Energies 2004: Contemporary Artists of South Gippsland', exhibition catalogue, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Mar. 2004
'Prints Suit Jenny like Ned Kelly's Armour', newspaper editorial, Leongatha Star, Feb. 17, 2004, p 6
'Jenny Peterson Makes her Mark', newspaper editorial, Yarram Standard News, Nov. 12, 2003, p 6
'Tin Suit', Kerrilee Ninnis, catalogue essay, Tacit Contemporary Art (Melbourne School of Art), Oct. 2002 Online version at www.melbart.com.au
'Ephemeral Landscape', Catheryn Thompson, Imprint, vol. 33, No.3, 1998, p.22,23, exhibition review
'The New Energy: Contemporary Artists in Gippsland', exhib. catalogue, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Oct.1995
 

Updated 30 Oct 2009