Jenny McConnell

Driven by the need to understand and reflect on our connections with each other and our environment, my work is an investigation into both my past and present experiences. There is usually a narrative being explored as I create, sometimes based in historical fact and empathy for another, unpacking relationships, layered in meaning and metaphors. Giving voice to someone who may have been silenced or no longer present to tell their story. Sometimes an image can exist where words are difficult. The healing nature of my practice brings me back over and over.

I work in a multidisciplinary approach. My art process includes collection of nostalgic images and photographs of my immediate environment and an editing process of layering, reveal and conceal.

2025 Nostalgia Curated Group Show - Untether Art Gallery- Geelong BS’A - First year Long course Visual Arts

Incognito Art Show Fibre Arts Take Two - Perfectly Imperfect - Lorna Crane

Gathered - group exhibition - M/Arts - Murwillumbah

2024 Murwillumbah Arts Trail Artist - Belle Riverhouse - Tumbulgum BS’A - Short course - Portraiture with James Guppy

Incognito Art Show Lisa Mann - cold wax short course

Sketchbook Murwillumbah BS’A - Short Course - Oil Painting with Amber Wallis

2023 Sketchbook Murwillumbah - Artist Award

2022 Murwillumbah Arts Trail Artist - Belle Riverhouse - Tumbulgum

2021 The Doyles Art Awards Cloud Catchers - oil on canvas

2021 Murwillumbah Arts Trail open studio artist

2019 Makers and Finders - M-Arts

2017     RAW Gold Coast - jewellery and art collection

2003    GC Art Teachers exhibition- Griffith University Sailing – drawing

2002    GC Art Teachers exhibition- Bond University Heart Strings – assemblage sculpture

2001    Visions exhibition – Griffith University Melody – mixed media

1998    Visions exhibition – Royal Qld Art Soc. Broadbeach - Fragments of a Journey - drawing

1997    Energies Exhibition - GCCAG Afternoon Tea with Agnes – reworked

1996   Ms Conceptions – Grunt Youth Space Fortitude Valley My Ain Folk – oil on board, reed organ parts  

Afternoon Tea with Agnes - assemblage

1993   Griffith University Student Exhibition Women of the North – oil on canvas Shell Birth – drawing with mixed media frame

1992   Griffith University Student Exhibition Domestic Bliss – assemblage sculpture Totem – carved timber and ceramics

1982   BCAE Student Exhibition Silver Tree - jewellery