LOUISE JENNISON
1976, Melbourne, Australia

1994–96 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts (Painting)
2002 Centro Del Bel Libro, Ascona, Switzerland, Innovative Book Constructions

EXHIBITIONS | PROJECTS | GRANTS | COLLECTIONS | RESIDENCIES | CATALOGUES

Solo exhibitions
2004 New Orleans: a four day feast, The Brunswick Street Bookstore, Melbourne
2002 A whole year, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
2001 2001 A Domestic Odyssey, MASS Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Bundanon Shelters, urbanart transport shelters, Melbourne
1998
Outback Watching, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
untitled (love affair), Studio 1, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Girls Favourite Things, Stripp, Melbourne
It's called being a girl, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1996 Time & Subsequent Emotion, Womyns Room, RMIT, Melbourne

Artists' book launches & collaborative exhibitions with Gracia Haby
2009
A key to help make your own world visible, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2008
But for the moon nobody could see us, Imp Gallery, Melbourne
2007
A trapdoor in every room, Imp Gallery, Melbourne
If we stand very still, no one will notice, Mailbox 141, Melbourne
2004 Those Two Daring Pirates, Hound Dog's Bop Shop, Melbourne
2003 Melbourne in 31 days and 30 days in Vienna, Victoria Room, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
2001
101 ways to get to your favoured destination & Snug as a bug in a rug, Craft Victoria, Gallery 3, Melbourne
The ermines tea party – one weekend & The kingdom of the blue poppy – as made for Sinclare, Guy May Bonsai, Melbourne
Nao falo Portugese, Portuguese Consulate, Melbourne
2000 This morning I went into the garden, Newry Street, Melbourne
1999 01.02.99–19.02.99, Gallery and cabinets, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions
2009
2009 Geelong acquisitive print award, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Books ... beyond words, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
New Wave: artists’ books in the 21st Century, UWE Bristol, United Kingdom
Borrow, Off the Kerb gallery, Melbourne
I Feel Fine, Milly Sleeping, Melbourne
2008
The Last Hurrah!, Imp Gallery, Melbourne
Fictions, Monash University Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
Secondary Sources, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
Secrets of the Photocopier, Platform, Melbourne
The Space in Between, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2007
The Space in Between, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Mirror of the World: Books & Ideas, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Dervish, Imp Gallery, Melbourne
Lexicon, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
Libris Awards – The Australian Artists' Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2005
Ex Libris, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room and RMIT Visual Arts Summer Studio Residency Fundraiser and Exhibition, Melbourne
Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award 2005, Melbourne
Print Out: An exhibition of fine original prints from the Burnie Regional Art Gallery's Permanent Collection, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
2004
Counter Productive, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
The Found Project, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Compendium, Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
2003
Act XII: new works on paper, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. Touring to UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney and Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
Second Freedman Foundation Exhibition, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
Compendium, Platform, Melbourne
2002 
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Global Fusion, Federal Chancellery, Department for the Arts, Kunstraum Palais Porcia and Wienstation, Vienna, Austria
uno – one unique object, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2000
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
life, Public Office and urbanart transport shelters, Melbourne
@ global city, Public Office and urbanart transport shelters, Melbourne
Blink, ACCA, Melbourne
Memory, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Victoria
1999
Animal Magnetism, Platform, Melbourne
Riding the Edge, Mt Waverly Gallery, Melbourne
The Image Reflected, Platform, Melbourne
Cultivated sphere of events, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
1998
Its a Girls World, Temple, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Silent Fall, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude street, Melbourne
Momenta, Geelong Arts Festival, Victoria
1997
Adjacent, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Whim – Humour in the extreme, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Girls in Melbourne, Platform, Melbourne
Just Looking, North Fitzroy Primary School, Melbourne
Address, Ararat Art Gallery, Victoria
Artline 1997, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Australia Felix Visual Arts Festival, Benalla, Victoria
Eva 97, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, South Australia
Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham Community Centre, Melbourne
1996
Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Bdg 2, Melbourne
1995
Crayons, Pencils and Grinders, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
The Portrait, Platform, Melbourne

Zines & Projects
2009
Just the two of us: A fine pair, printed zine
Tweak, Tweaked, Tweet, printed zine
Summertime: And the livin' is easy, just as Ella & Louis sang, printed zine
Transit Lounge: Moving While Standing Still, printed zine and collaborative project
2008
Before it's too late, printed zine
Three in the Kitchen, zine made in collaboration with Shari Altman and Gracia Haby
2007
How to... (be a little more green), printed zine
2006
How to... (spot a phoney fossil), zine made in collaboration with Gracia Haby
Geschlecht und Schoklade, zine made in collaboration with Gaby Bila Gunther and Gracia Haby
11.5 fossils, printed zine
2005
How to... (plan for commercial printing and understand printing terminology & color concepts), printed zine
How to... (make a concertina, fold out book & a wrap around book), printed zine
2003
My beautiful laundrette, collage installation, Eco-Express Waschsalon, Berlin, Germany
Where does the muskrat keep his musk?, zine made in collaboration with Elaine Haby and Gracia Haby
Looking out the window, zine made in collaboration with Gracia Haby and Barbara Wolters
Money: does it always make the world go around? cheque book zine made in collaboration with Gracia Haby, edition of two. (As part of Soho in Ottakring, Vienna, Austria)
2002
Everything between home & work, zine made in collaboration with Shannon Bracken, Martin Checklin and Gracia Haby
Family in Melbourne, Melbourne Vox Pops, urbanart project
Is there kunst in the house, zine made in collaboration with Gaby Bila Gunther and Gracia Haby

Grants / Scholarships
2004 Print Council of Australia Print Commission
2002 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
2000 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work, Emerging Artist
1997 Queens Trust for Young Australians
1996 RMIT Union Arts Grant

Private & Public Collections
Banyule City Council, Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Camberwell Grammar, City of Whitehorse, Charles Sturt University, Ergas Collection, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Lauriston Girls' School, Melbourne University Library, Monash University, National Gallery of Australia, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Print Council of Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, RMIT Library, St Michael's Grammar, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, Tintern Girls Grammar School, UWE Bristol, University of Wollongong, Vermont Secondary College, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Private Collections

Residencies / Employment
2007 How I entered there I cannot truely say, Collaborative works from the ANU Edition + Artist Book Studio, Words and Images: Examining the artist book, symposium, SLV, Melbourne
2004–05
Summer Studios @ 66 (Formally Project Space/Visual Arts Summer Residency programme), RMIT, Melbourne
2003–09
Sessional staff, RMIT, Department of Art, Melbourne
2002
Visiting guest speaker, RMIT, Department of Art, Melbourne
2000
Visiting guest speaker, Monash University Faculty of Art and Design, Art Forum
1999
Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust, NSW
1998
Artist in Residence, Livingston Primary School, Melbourne
Artist in Residence, Our Lady of Mercy College, Melbourne
1997–98
Studio Artist, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1997
Artist in Residence, North Fitzroy Primary School, Melbourne

Publications / Catalogues
Ashley Crawford, Around the galleries, A2, The Age, 06/09/08
Penny Modra, Visual Arts, The Sunday Age, M, 07/09/08
Charlotte Francis, Towards new trains of thought, A2, The Age 15/03/08
Jurate Sasnaitis, Ravening/Ravelling/Revelling, Book Arts newsletter, UWE Bristol, Number 40, March/April 2008
Millie Ross, Zine Scene, Yen magazine, Issue 29, 2007
Sarah Bodman, Book Arts newsletter, UWE Bristol, Number 38, November/December 2007
Megan Backhouse, Around the galleries, The Age, 10/03/07
Jazmina Cininas, Tall tales and antipodean adventures: narratives in contemporary Australian printmaking, Imprint Journal, Volume 41, Winter 2006
Jazmina Cininas, Ex Libris catalogue essay, 2005
Jurate Sasnaitis, Those Two Daring Pirates artists' book review, Poster Magazine, Issue Eight, Autumn 2005
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 1985-2005, edited by Charlotte Day, 2005
Louise Tegart, The FOUND Project exhibition review, Imprint Journal, Summer 2004
Robert Nelson, Documenting the everyday, A3, The Age, 24/09/04
Penelope Trotter, The FOUND Project catalogue essay, 2004
Cover & Lesley Harding, From mise-en-scene to mise-en-page, Imprint Journal, Spring 2003
Lesley Harding, Marita Smith, Act XII: new works on paper catalogue essay, 2003
Pluck, Channel 31 tv interview, 29/05/03
Lucinda Strahan, Act XII: new works on paper exhibition review, The Age, 29/05/03
Fiona O'Doherty, Artists take a fantasy journey, Yarra Leader, 12/05/03
Megan Backhouse, Paper-art Awards set to fold, The Age, 30/04/03
Roger Taylor, High & Low, RRR radio interview, 24/09/02
Von Almuth Spiegler, Global Fusion 2002, Die Presse, Kultur/Medien, 25/02/02
Georgia Cribb, One month - Melbourne & Vienna catalogue essay, 2002
Megan Backhouse, Have Freedman, will travel, The Age, 14/11/01
Emma Leigh Winterburn, 2001 A Domestic Odyssey catalogue essay, 2001
Robert Nelson, Hidden depths in pet project, The Age, 09/01/00
Georgia Cribb, It's a Girls World catalogue essay, 1998
Urban Creator, Melbourne Yarra Leader, 09/11/98
Georgia Cribb, untitled (love affair) catalogue essay, 1998
Just Looking, ArtFan, June 1998
The Main Event, Malvern Prahran Leader, 27/05/98
Brendan Wall, Silent Fall catalogue essay, 1998
Portrait of the Artist as a bedroom, Yarra Leader, 18/05/98
Colin Shingleton, Artline 1997 catalogue essay, 1997


Louise Jennison
Reflecting something entirely other (detail)
2008
Watercolour and pencil