Taxonomy. Abstract, Mixed Media, Collage, Painting

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Jenny Davis is a Melbourne-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice examines the complexities of our world. Her work, is deeply connected to Australia’s landscapes and history, often reflects themes of urban decay, nature, and historical artifacts. Through painting, sculpture, mixed media, collage, textile art, installation and video, Jenny explores beauty, disruption, conflict, and memory, delving into the nuances of the human experience.

With an inquisitive and experimental approach, she contemplates the fragility of nature and life, as well as the transformative power of decay, loss, and renewal. Jenny frequently incorporates found objects and vintage textiles, layering them with materials like rust, ink, and stitching, creating intricate narratives in her pieces.

Her works have been exhibited internationally, including in notable venues such as International Arts Center in Barcelona, Times Square in New York, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Museum of Shenandoah Valley, and the Center for the Arts in Escondido, USA. Jenny's art is represented in both corporate and private collections around the globe. Jenny is also a published author and prize winning artist and is represented in both corporate and private collections around the globe. Though her roots are firmly planted in Australia, Jenny has also lived intermittently in Paris, Spain, and the UK, drawing inspiration from her experiences across cultures.

Outlook8studio is where multidisciplinary artist Jenny Davis runs her arts practice from. The studio was built by Jenny from discarded and recycled materials in 2000. The studio is based in Australia, specialising in the creation of original, thought-provoking abstract paintings and artworks, striving to use materials that minimize the impact on the environment and are less harmful to the earth.

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Solo Exhibitions
2024 Wallmatter & Rustmatter. Waterwheel Gallery, Warburton, Victoria, Australia

2018 Spaces Below. Yering Station Gallery, Curator Dr. Ewen Jarvis. Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia

2016 Wallmatter. The Memo, regional gallery, curator Jade Bitar Regional Exhibitions, Victoria, Australia

2011 Abstraction & Beyond. Burrinja Cultural Center, Victoria, Australia

2009/10 Jenny Davis 12 Photographs, 12 Months, Asnieries sur Seine, Paris, France

2009 Outlook8 Virtual Gallery Malt Village. Digital online installation, Secondlife

2008 Jenny Davis Malt Virtual Gallery. Digital online installation, Secondlife

2007 Jenny Davis 12 paintings, 12 months. Asnieries sur Seine, Paris, France

2007 Ausgallery. Travelling, international representation and exhibitions, Australian government Incentive

2007 Parisgrit. Tilt Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006 Can Serrat Project. Tilt Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2005 Project Can Serrat. Upper Yarra Arts Center, regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2005 Open Studio Exhibition Can Serrat Arts Centre, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain

2005 Jenny Davis. Beale on Auburn Gallery, Auburn Road Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

2004 Didja. Tilt Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2004 Jenny Davis at Loft Art Space. Rochford Winery, Victoria, Australia

2003 Jenny Davis Recent Paintings. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne Australia

2002 Jenny Davis. Whereartis@ Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

Group Exhibitions
2023 Woman. Yava Gallery & Waterwheel Gallery, Warburton, Victoria, Australia

2022 Door to Door Berlin Lite. Hause Gallery 4H, Berlin, Germany

2022 Abstractions. YAVA Art Gallery. Healesville, Victoria, Australia

2022 Transformation. Textile, sculpture, exhibition, online exhibition & publication

2021 Door-to-Door Project. No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2020 Door-to-Door Project. Virtual online exhibition. Artaviso

2020 Quite Complexity. YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub, Victoria, Australia

2019 Members exhibition. YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub. Healesville, Victoria, Australia

2019 Yarra Glen Art Show. Victoria, Australia

2018 Hit Me With Your Best Shot Project. BOAA installation, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

2017 Second Time Around. Environmental installation, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, USA

2017 The Biennale Project Wallmatter 17. Digital Image Projection, Venice Biennale 57, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

2017 From This Place Exhibition – Inspiring Women Artists of the Yarra Valley. Warburton regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2017 Exhibition & Book Launch. Lindy Schneider, Angela Rivas, 14 Artists, Victoria, Australia

2014/15 Second Time Around. Environmental installation, Museum of Shenandoah Valley, USA

2014 Art+Mel Interactive Arts Event. Federation Square + Laneway, Melbourne, Australia

2014 Times Square Show Building Projection. Times Square, New York, USA

2013-14 Snap to Grid Exhibition. Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, USA

2013 Creatives Rising Exhibition. 30 story tall Projection mapping event, New York, USA: MoMA, Guggenheim, Gagosian Gallery, Sotheby’s, Christie’s Auction House

2013 The Story of the Creative. See Me exhibition space, N Y City, Digital Installation

2013 Artfuly. Pop up exhibition, Somedays Gallery, Surrey Hills, Sydney, Australia

2013 Xtinction Three Stories Artspace, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

2012 Land to Light. Jenny Davis, Charles Farrugia, Mark Story, John Martin, Switchback Gallery. Curators, Charles Farrugia, Rod Forbes, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia

2010 Room of Reference. TPTP Space, Montmartre, Paris. France

2010 Sebel Show. Heritage Country Club, Melbourne, Australia

2010 Artisans Show. Upper Yarra Arts Center, Victoria, Australia

2009 Art For Life. Bushfire Appeal Art Auction. Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Landfillart Project. Ongoing, travelling exhibition and Publication. USA

2009 Mont De Lancy Show. Wandin, Victoria, Australia

2009 Artisans Exhibition. Upper Yarra Arts Center, regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2008 Strazz n Oz. Jenny Davis & Jerry Osadczuk. Upper Yarra Arts Center, regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2008 Tilt Christmas Show. Tilt Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008 March ’08 Hills Artists. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2008 Australia Day Exhibition. Upper Yarra Arts Center, regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2007 Melb 5 Bob Curtis Contemporary Movement Gallery. Berlin, Germany

2006-7 Abstraction X Four. Carteret Contemporary Gallery, NC, USA. Curator NY artist, Amy Ernst

2006 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize. Sale Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

2005 Discovery Art Show. Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005 Urbantide. Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2005 Soundscape. Fresh Gallery Space, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005 Affordable Art Fair. Exhibition Buildings Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005 Tilt Collectors Show. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2005 Tilt Retrospective. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2005 Abstract2. Art-Domain.com gallery, Leipzig, Germany. Curator Ulrich Goette Himmelblau

2004 Out from Down under and Beyond. Soho, New York, USA

2004 Abstract 1. Art Domain.com gallery. Port D’ andratx, Balearic Islands, Spain

2004 Artiade Olympics of Visual Arts. Exhibition Olympic Games Athens, Greece

2004 Tilt Collectors Show. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2004 Tilt Retrospective. Tilt Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

2003 The Postcard Show. Linden Gallery. St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

2003 Differing Visions. Upper Yarra Arts Center, regional gallery, Victoria, Australia

2003 Summer Salon. Gallery 314, Richmond, Victoria, Australia

1999 International Women’s Day Show. Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1998 International Women’s Day Show. Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1997 Coming up for Air. Caulfield Art Complex, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1996 Recovery NGV. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1968 Winner, Momba Art Competition. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Public Commissions - Projects & Collaborations
2022/23 Public Art Installation. Rydges CBD Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

2017 From This Place – Inspiring Women Artists of the Yarra Valley. Exhibition & Book Launch, Writer, Lindy Schneider, Photographer & writer, Angela Rivas & Artists. Yarra Valley, Victoria. Australia

2014/17 International Union of Mail Artists. Collaborative mail - art projects. Worldwide

2014 Limited Edition, Artist Book Publications. Jenny Davis, Jack Oudyn, Australia

2014 John Baldessari: Name up in Lights, Monnaie de Paris, Seine River. Paris, France

2011 John Baldessari: Name up in Lights. Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney Festival, NSW, Australia

2009-2017 Landfill Art Project USA. Ongoing travelling exhibition, USA

2007/9/10/16 Meet the Tenant Project. Research and document underground spaces in Paris, France. Photography, video and book publication

1994 Public Art Project. Sculpture, Redgum Art Center, collaboration with artist Lazlo Biro. Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

Awards & Grants
2018 Selected artist, The Other Art Fair Melbourne. Selection panel, Saatchi Art London

2015 Featured Artist, Issue 16 Upstairs at Duroc Literary and Arts Magazine, Paris, France

2012 Featured Artist, Aesthetica Creative Works Annual. England & Wales

2012 Selected Cover Artist, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual. England & Wales

2013 Featured Artist, Rothko Red, Moods & Appetites, New York, USA

2012 Featured Artist Upstairs at Duroc Literary and Arts Magazine. Montmartre, Paris, France

2010 Featured Artist Abstractions 2010. New Art Review Magazine, N.Y. USA

2011 Awarded 2nd. Prize. Abstracts exhibition Light, Space & Time, Gallery. USA

2010 Winner Tyrrell’s Wine Label Award. Heritage Country Club, Victoria, Australia

2008 Awarded EMDG Australian Trade Commission Grant. Australian Export Award, Australia

2006 Certificate of Honour for Excellence in the Arts. Palm Awards, Leipzig, Germany

2005 Awarded Artist In Residence. Can Serrat International Art Center, Barcelona, Spain

2003 Award for Artistic Excellence. Camille Claudel, Peter Harper Art Award, USA.

Education & Professional Experience
2023 Perfectly Imperfect. Lorna Crane, NSW Australia

2022 Transformation. Clarissa Callesen, fibre/textile sculpture. Online exhibition & publication

2020 The Bookmaker. Artist book workshop. Roxanne Evans Stout, USA

2018 Victory Shields and Wisdom Keepers. Mixed media workshop, Roxanne Evans Stout, USA

2017 Weaving Workshop. Ruth Woods, Craft School Oz, Alywon Gardens, Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia

2016 Art Business Strategies Coaching Course. 11-weeks, Maria Brophy

2016 Creativity and the Business of Art. Alexis Castillo.

2016 Textile Workshop, Indigo Shibori & Slow Stitch, Boro. Craft School Oz, Ruth Woods, Victoria, Australia

2008-19 Badger Creek Art Group. Old school house, Badger Creek, Victoria, Australia

2015 100 Days of Creative Courage. Stephanie Levy, Berlin, Germany

2015 InstaSavvy. Social Media Business Workshop, Dotty Media, Byron Bay, Australia

2015 CreativeArtsbiz. Business course, online

2015 Encaustic Art Workshop. Dawna Richardson-Hyde, 3 Stories Gallery Space, Healesville, Victoria. Australia

2013- 30 Days of Collage, Stephanie Levy. Berlin. Germany

2012 Find Your Own Freedom & the Business Model Right for You Online Workshop

2011 Creative Souls Telesummit Online Workshop

2011 Business Branding Workshop Etsy Labs.

2006-18 Design Branding and Art Blogger Workshop.

2004-5 Alternative Arts, Drawing & Painting. Richard-Granville- Smith, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

2000-4 Professional Development for Artists. Shane Merry, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

2001 Further Education Art Studies. Art foundation studies, cross media application, cultural perspectives, contemporary arts practice, painting studies, Ruth Woods. Victoria, Australia

1998/9/0 Therapist Training. Australian Institute of Professional Councillors, Australia

1998 Small Business Training. Swinburne University, Lilydale, (off campus), Victoria, Australia

1995 Women as Artists. Dr Annette Iggulden, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1995 Folio Prep Workshop. Dr Annette Iggulden, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1995 Cert. of Arc, Mig, Oxy Welding. Box Hill TAFE, Victoria, Australia

1995 Associate Diploma of Visual Arts Yr. 2. Oil Painting. Dr Annette Iggulden, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1994 Associate Diploma of Visual Arts. Dandenong TAFE. Year 2. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia

1994 Associate Diploma of Visual Arts. Swinburne TAFE Year 1, Wantirna, Victoria. Australia

1993 Adv. Cert. Art and Design. Dawna Richardson-Hyde, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1993 Adv. Cert. Ceramics Dawna Richardson-Hyde, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1993 Creative Art Class. Dr Annette Iggulden, HLLC, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

1993 Oil Painting. Marg Payne, East Warburton, Victoria, Australia

1992 Acrylic Painting. Marg Bell, Gladysdale, Victoria, Australia

1992 Textile Art Workshop. Patchwork Haven, Yarra Junction, Victoria, Australia

1985/6 Starting a Craft Business. Lilydale School of Horticulture, Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

1980/79 Creative Arts Course. Stott’s College, Sydney, Australia

1974-9 Experiments in B/W Photography & Darkroom Techniques. Seaford, Victoria, Australia

1977 Short Story Writing. Stott’s College, Sydney, Australia

Work & Research
2022/23 Public Art Project. Abstract, textile & collage installation, Rydges Hotel (CBD), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2018 London & Surrounds. Research & studio project, United Kingdom

2001-24 Outlook8studio. Owner, Manager, Artist, Professional Studio Work, Victoria, Australia

2010-19 Fitzherbert Studio. Professional studio work with artist Jane Fitzherbert, Victoria. Australia

2003-24 Art Blogger. Blog writer, manage and maintain online websites and art sales

2010 Street Noir Project Paris. Video and night photography series, Paris, France

2007/9/10/16 Meet the Tenant Paris. Research Arts Project & Network. Paris, France.

2007 Melb 5. Oversee exhibition, Bob Curtis Contemporary Movement Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005 Artist In Residence Spain. Studio work, public presentation. Can Serrat International Arts Center, Barcelona, Spain

2005 European & UK Research Project. England, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Amsterdam, Venice, Switzerland, Austria, Zurich and Spain

2005 Research Project. Video, photography & research project, Maidstone, England

2002-3 Teaching. Outlook8studio, abstraction & creative arts

1994 Creative Fence Sculpture. (public art project) Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

1994 Mentor-ship & Studio Practice, Art assistant to Lazlo Biro, sculptor & mentor, Mt. Evelyn, Victoria, Australia

1993 Curator. TAFE student exhibition, Swinburne, Wantirna campus, Australia

1990-99 Drug/Alcohol Counsellor, Art Therapy. Doctors Suites, Mooroolbark & Freelance, Victoria Australia

1987/88 Jenny's Porch. Art /Craft business, Sole Trader Jenny Davis, Donald, Victoria, Australia

1987/88 Jennys Porch. Teaching arts/crafts, Jenny's Porch. Donald, Victoria, Australia

Publications/Artist Books
2023 Visual Artist Jenny Davis - The Artist’s Journey. Vol. 1, 2,3,4. Published books by Jenny Davis

2022 Transformation - Textile sculpture exhibition, Creating with Courage publication, Clarrisa Callesen

2016 Rustmatter. Limited edition artist books, 10 books in vintage cigar tins, Jenny Davis

.2016 Vintage Pulp. Featured artist, Sew Somerset Magazine Stampington & Company, California, USA

2008 Meet the Tenant. Jenny Davis, self published hard cover book. What lurks? Beneath the City of Paris

2008 Odd Feeling. Featured artist, Midnight Echo magazine, internal photograph.

2014 No/Yes Book. Limited Edition Artist Book. Collaborative project, Jenny Davis & Jack Oudyn, Australia

2014 Artist Book Publication. Collaborative project, Jenny Davis & Jack Oudyn, Australia

Media/Reviews
2024 Long - time friends unite for August exhibition. Upper Yarra Star Mail, Seren, Howells

2018 Spaces Below Review. Curator, Dr. Ewen Jarvis

2016 Wallmatter - Jenny Davis Explores Neglected Spaces. Feature artist, Bluethumb Art, Bek Possingham

2011 Hidden Spaces Exposed. Upwey Show Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2010 Collecting Going Green. Invited artist blogger, USA

2009 Jenny Davis, Artist Interview, Design Style Guide, USA

2009 Jenny Davis Art Review. Hong Kong. Online

2008 Art from Rubbish. Mountain Views Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2008 Heart put into Art. Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2007 Paris work on Show. Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2006 Cover Art, Fuel4artists Sydney, Australia. Online

2005 Immersing in the Spanish Culture. Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2005 A Culture Fused in Art. Fairfax News, Melbourne, Australia

2005 Cover-Art, Art Calendar Magazine Washington DC. USA.

2004 Didja & Artiade Leader Newspapers, Victoria. Australia.

2004 Artiade Athens Olympic Games. Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

2004 Art Collector Magazine. Article Australia

2004 The World of Antiques and Art. Article Australia.

2003 Lawrence Downes Gallery & Studio Magazine. New York, USA, review

2004 Out from Down under and Beyond. New York Art Guide, New York, USA

1996 My Art and Life Vogue Magazine, Sydney, Australia

1994 Creative Fences - Public Art. Leader Newspapers, Victoria, Australia

Public - Corporate - Private Collections
2022/23 Rydges CBD Hotel Group. Melbourne, Australia

2009 - Landfillart Collection - Second Time Around. Travelling environmental exhibitions. Museum of Shenandoah Valley Virginia & California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, USA

2005 Can Serrat International Art Center. Barcelona, Spain

1994 Creative Fence Sculpture. Redgum Arts Center, Lilydale, Victoria, Australia

Various private collections in Australia, UK, USA, Canada & Europe

Memberships
NAVA Australia

Arts Law Australia

Women's Art Register Australia

Copyright Agency Australia & World Collecting Agency

IUOMA International Union of Mail Artists