What is Jenny Orchard known for?

What is Jenny Orchard known for?

Jenny Orchard is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked across drawing, painting, collage, ceramics and sculpture to create figurative hybrid totemic forms and vessels she calls Zookiniis or Interbeings since the early 1980s.

What techniques did Jenny Orchard use?

Orchard uses slipcast and handbuilding techniques, bright colours and patterned surfaces to create forms that play games with functionalism and non-functionalism and that explore issues of culture and gender. Her works are usually signed with her full name.

Where does Jenny Orchard get her inspiration for her hybrid artwork?

Her multi chromatic glazed sculptures are vividly infused with an exotic presence that reinforces her influences from living in Zimbabwe during her early years.

When was Jenny Orchard born?

1951
Peer reviewed biography (858 words) Born in 1951 in Ankara, Turkey, Jenny Orchard was the only child of a British army officer and his wife.

Who is Polly Verity?

Polly Verity is a paper folder, specialized in geometric folds. With inspiration from origami Polly has developed an extraordinary style, where the light and the shades plays a significant role for the end result. Polly herself sometimes wonder, how did that come from a flat sheet?

Is Jenny Orchard still alive?

Jenny Orchard was born in Turkey, grew up in Zimbabwe and now lives in Sydney.

What media does Jenny Orchard use?

Her current work includes drawing, painting and collage and is preoccupied with exploring liminal states of being, and celebrating the diversity of material form.

Who is James DeRosso?

Ceramicist, Painter James DeRosso was introduced to clay in a Jr High art class in The Dalles, Oregon, by instructor Ms. Orr, and he hasn’t been able to keep his hands out of it since. DeRosso received his college degree in Graphic Design, but spent most of his elective credits in the ceramic studio.

What type of clay does Jenny Orchard use?

earthenware clay
Jenny’s ceramic ‘creatures’ and vases are formed using earthenware clay and an array of vibrantly coloured glazes, each one possessing a unique personality and exhibiting a complete defiance of convention.

Where is Polly Verity from?

Wales
Polly Verity lives in Carmarthenshire in Wales, a beautiful little village surrounded by lush greenery and rivers. As both her parents are artists she grew up in an environment where there were plenty of art materials to hand.

How does Jenny Orchard make her ceramics?

Jenny’s ceramic ‘creatures’ and vases are formed using earthenware clay and an array of vibrantly coloured glazes, each one possessing a unique personality and exhibiting a complete defiance of convention.

What is James De Rosso known for?

Ceramicist, Painter After college, he initially worked in advertising in what he refers to as “four years of unhappily plunking on a computer keyboard” before taking a commission job to make 200 custom ceramic vases.

What makes Jenny Orchard’s art unique?

Expressing the connected nature of all life and matter is at the core of Jenny Orchard’s art practice. The paintings, collages and ceramics in her recent work form part of a narrative about a fictitious and parallel world in a state of change.

Where did Jenny orchard grow up?

Jenny Orchard was born in Turkey to British parents. In 1956, the family went to live in Zimbabwe. In 1969, Orchard left Zimbabwe for London where she lived for six years before leaving to live in Australia. Zimbabwe, however, as the artist has noted elsewhere, has remained for her ”the home of the mind”.

Where has the art of justjenny exhibited?

Jenny has exhibited widely, taking part in International shows and conferences including the second Jakarta Ceramics Biennale in 2014, Art from Australia at the Gail Museum in Seoul, and Uncertain Paradise at the Imazoo gallery Seoul 2015.

What is it about Jenny Holm’s sculptures?

They are all imbued with such individuality and spirit that they transcend their abstract hybrid forms to appear almost normal and tangible. Jenny has resided in many countries and her sculptures reflect her fascination and acceptance of diversified cultures.

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