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2017 First prize Sid Myer Ceramic award.
2017 First prize National Self Portrait Prize. Queensland University.
2019 Works acquired for the Museum of Applied arts and Sciences MAAS Sydney.
2020 Creatures of Consequence exhibition at Wollongong City Art Gallery.
Wollongong City Art Gallery Creatures of Consequence
Sidney Myer Ceramic Award Shepparton Art Gallery
Detail Wollongong Art Gallery
Jenny Orchard is a contemporary artist, living and working in Sydney. She has travelled a unique path of making figurative hybrid ceramics called Zookiniis or Interbeings, totemic forms and vessels since the early 1980’s. Her current work includes drawing, painting and collage and is preoccupied with exploring liminal states of being, and celebrating the diversity of material form.
Jenny has exhibited widely, taking part in International shows and conferences including the second Jakarta Ceramics Biennale in 2014, Art from Australia at the Gail Museum in Seoul, and Uncertain Paradise at the Imazoo gallery Seoul 2015. Her work has featured in Sculptural Objects and Functional Art at Chicago and Miami, Ceramic Art from Australia at the Tao Gallery Tokyo and Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney in 2009 2010 and 2011.