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 | PUBLISHED
WORKS | 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
2012
By this unwinking night,
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
2011
Our boat was the lightest
feather, digital exhibition, SOLV, the Netherlands
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
Group exhibitions
2011
Fine Impressions: Printmaking &
artists' books in Melbourne 2000–2010,
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
In Suspense, Hand Held
Gallery, Melbourne
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery,
New South Wales
Manly
Library 2011 Inaugural Artists' Book Award, Manly Library, New
South Wales
Loved & Lost Society, Milly
Sleeping, Melbourne
2010
Playing
Field,
Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2010 Libris Awards: Australian Artists' Book Prize,
Artspace Mackay, Queensland
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
2006 Libris Awards: 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
Small Projects
Small ephemeral atlas, collaborative
zine made for Sticky Institute
Happy Journey Collective,
collaborative project for Thereza Rowe, Lesley Barnes,
and Abi Daker
2010
Aquarius: The Water Carrier,
Blanket magazine
2009
Could be me, online
collaborative project for Paul Paper
Transit Lounge: Moving While Standing
Still, printed zine and collaborative project
2003
My beautiful laundrette, collage installation, Eco-Express
Waschsalon, Berlin, Germany
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
Family
in Melbourne, Melbourne Vox Pops, urbanart project
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
Artspace Mackay, Banyule City Council, Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem,
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Camberwell Grammar, City of Whitehorse,
Charles Sturt University, Ergas Collection, Flindt Schmidt (UK), 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, Tate (UK), Tintern
Girls Grammar School, UWE Bristol (UK), 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
Published works
2011
The screen door snaps,
Visible Ink
Not so very different upon
reflection and Momentarily
visible, The Big Issue
Dear Dad, Australian Poetry
(second edition)
In search of the unexpected,
The Big Issue
Flambeaux, ACE Hotel
Water, Paper, Paint,
Heather Smith Jones
2010
From Orchards, Fields, and
Gardens, Kerstin Svendsen
Dear Dad, Australian Poetry
(first edition)
Fox collages, Uppercase magazine
2008
Gather, Lines & Shapes
2007
Keeping an ever watchful eye just
to make sure, NETS Victoria
2003
The plight of the birds, Cover image, Imprint Journal,
Volume 38, Spring 2003
Publications / Catalogues
(EXTENDED)
Hila Shachar, Gracia + Louise Artwork,
Desktop magazine: The Culture of Design, 2011
Sarah Bodman, From Fluxus to iPad: A very
short history of artists' books, Cassone: The International
Online Magazine of Art and Art Books, 2011
Joe Pascoe, Playing Field,
2010
Sunday Arts, ABC television, 18/10/2009
Dylan Rainforth, A key to help make
your own world visible, The Age, 2009
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
Harriet Edquist & Elizabeth Grierson, Skilled hand and cultivated
mind: a guide to the architecture and art of RMIT University, 2008
Millie Ross, Zine Scene, Yen magazine,
Issue 29, 2007
Sarah Bodman, Book Arts newsletter, UWE Bristol, Number 38,
November/December 2007
Jurate Sasnaitis, A trapdoor in everyroom
catalogue essay 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, Act XII: new works on
paper catalogue essay, 2003
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
