EXHIBITIONS & BIOGRAPHY

JENNIFER PLUNKETT

1968-9 studied Graphic Design Caulfield Institute of Technology


1971-5 studied Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology


1973 received Commonwealth of Australia grant to visit Japan as an

observer at International Design Conference in Kyoto (ICSID)


1976 travelled & painted Europe & U.K.


1981 travelled & painted Indonesia (Java & Bali), Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau


1984 travelled & painted Japan


1982-7 painted the swimming pool series


1984-9 painted the four seasons – views & impressions of Melbourne - urban landscape series


1990 set up studio at Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria


1984-93 painted the beach series


Solo exhibitions

1979 Melbourne University Gallery - scenes from a Spanish journey


1983 Painters Gallery, Sydney – Java, Bali, Hong Kong & Macau series


1987 Roar Studios, Melbourne – the swimming pool series.

Collingwood Leisure Centre – the swimming pool series


1989 Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne – the four seasons – views & impressions of Melbourne’s urban landscape


1993 Roar 2 Studios - observations & recollections – images of the beach, the city and the landscape


1992 Lyttleton Gallery, Melbourne – Pastel Paintings – contemplations of changing light on rural & urban landscapes


1995 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne


1999 Glen Eira City Gallery – Urban landscape & the natural world


2001 Glen Eira City Gallery – Island


2015 Open Studio weekend


2017 Tacit Contemporary - The colours & shapes of the coastal fringe


2018 Tacit Galleries - Coastal shapes and colours


Joint exhibitions

1981 De Carle Lane studio, Brunswick – with Rafael Gurvich


1983 Elizabeth Street studio, North Melbourne – with Rafael Gurvich


2002 the blue penguin gallery – with Rafael Gurvich


2003 the blue penguin gallery – recent paintings with Rafael Gurvich


2007 the blue penguin gallery – SUMMER EXHIBITION – with Rafael Gurvich


2008 the blue penguin gallery – IMAGES OF JAPAN – with Rafael Gurvich


2009 the blue penguin gallery - MAINLY DOGS & PARKS with Rafael Gurvich


2012 the blue penguin gallery - aspects of landscape with Rafael Gurvich


2015 OPEN STUDIO - Cowes

Group exhibitions

1977 Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize


1979 Save the Children Fund – Nauru House


1988 50 Fine Artists – Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, curated by Hugo Leschen


1989 The Roar 2 Summer Show – Roar 2 Studios


1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair – Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne


1991 Lyttleton Gallery – a mixed collection of fine paintings & ceramics – A positive view to 1991


1997 Editions Gallery, Armadale


1998 The Fleurieu Biennale – The McLaren Vale Prize & The Fleurieu Vistas Prize


1999 We are Australian - The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & touring Australia throughout 2000/2001


2006 Chrysalis Publishing - Art’s a great gift


Public collections

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  • Melbourne University Gallery

  • Vilnius University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Australian Print Workshop

  • Artbank

  • Arthur Young & Associates

  • News Limited (New York)

  • Federal Airports Corporation

also represented in private collections in Australia.

Book cover

Outlook – an anthology of Australian poetry for senior students – Ron Pretty.

Published Longman Cheshire. 1992

Bibliography

The Encyclopedia of Australian Art – Alan & Susan McCulloch. Published Allen & Unwin 1994

McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art - published The Miegunyah Press. 2006