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Born in Turkey, Jenny grew up in Zimbabwe and emigrated to Australia in 1975. A highly recognised ceramic artist she has exhibited widely in Australia since 1981 and participated in shows in Germany, Japan, Italy and the USA, internationally beginning in 1989 with the Contemporary Australian Ceramics show at the Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Contemporary Ceramic Art show at the Tao Gallery in Tokyo. In 2009 she participated in “Trajectory of Memories -Tradition and Modernity in Ceramics” at the MAGNT (Darwin) a survey of contemporary practice in Australia and Indonesia, and at Figuration, the Jam Factory Adelaide as well as Sculpture 2009 at Brenda May Gallery and at Maunsell Wickes International Ceramic Conference event.
Her work has been extensively acquired and is represented, amongst others, in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Artbank
"My Zookinii’s -PlantAnimals PlantPeople and SoulFlowers are hybrid. From a place where they now reside called Metempsychosia, they visit me and I have reconstructed some of them for you to see, like the contents of Pandora’s box, they can be beneficial or otherwise; some are magnificently confused, some bizarre, some sublime. A Zookinii’s itchy touch comes from the Australian landscape - choko plants, banksias, the coral reef of Queensland, grasses and weeds, kangaroos and backyard chooks; they have mingled with strange genetic codes and foreign species. My work expresses my joy and awe at the diversity and beauty of all creation and its universal soul."
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