Jennie Gorringe is a Tasmanian artist, arts administrator and curator who received a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from the University of Tasmania. According to Skye Fraser in the Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture (2000, p.594), this experience of study gave “flesh to the meaning of culture and identity”. It also “established her trademark design of totemic sculptural installations using clay, steel and wood in symbolic carvings.”
In 1992 Gorringe was the first artist to be given a residency at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and in 1994 she had a further residency at the Women’s Karadi Aboriginal Corporation in Hobart. This residency resulted in a major installation work for the Corporation. In 1999 Gorringe worked alongside Tony Woodward and Roland Gabatel on the Montrose Bay Young People’s Sculpture Park where they created public art in collaboration with local students.
Gorringe’s curatorial and arts administration work includes facilitating the first Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre workshop in 1994 and co-curating the group exhibition, Skin with Fiona Foley for the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart. Gorringe is also a board member of Tasmanian Regional Arts.
Gorringe has work in the collection of the National Museum of Australia.
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- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
