Jenny Orchard b. 1951

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Ceramist),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Turkish born Jenny Orchard spent her childhood and youth in Zimbabwe, settling in Australia in her mid twenties. In 1981 she began exhibiting her offbeat ceramic sculptures, figures and vessels, whose hybrid forms increasingly reflect her fascination with the mutability of life. She has shown widely in Australia and internationally.
exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1986
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1985
Place
Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Clay Dynasty
Date
11 October 2021 - 29 January 2022
Place
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW
Description

An exhibition of three generations of studio ceramics in Australia, from the 1960s when potters were influenced by Bernard Leach’s understanding of Japanese aesthetics, to a more liberated creative approach.
It was drawn in its entirety from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Tags
ceramcis, studio potters
Website
https://www.maas.museum/event/clay-dynasty/
exhibited at
Turn Turn Turn
Date
5 June 2015 - 8 August 2015
Place
National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Description

Group show celebrating 60 years of the studio ceramics tradition at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.

exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1998
Place
Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Dreamscapes
Date
2001
Place
Bartley Drey Gallery, London, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1999
Place
Customs House, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1995
Place
SOFA, Chicago, USA (through Despard Gallery, Hobart, Tas.)
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1993
Place
CINAFE, Chicago, USA (through Despard Gallery, Hobart. Tas.)
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Australian Ceramics
Date
1989
Place
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
First National Ceramic Award
Date
1986
Place
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Jenny Orchard ceramics
Date
1986
Place
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Description

Organised by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TMAG annual report 1986

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Ceramics
exhibited at
Clay Statements (1986)
Date
1986
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Description

'Clay Statements’ exhibition in Toowoomba then as 'Exhibited’ Queensland Art Gallery 8.12.1986- 26.1.1987

Artists –
Noel Flood, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Stephen Harrison,
Roderick Bamford, Garry Bish, Greg Crowe,
Greg Daly, Ivan Englund, Patsy Hely,
Martin Kelly, Bronwyn Kemp, Janet Mansfield,
Ian McKay, Kathrin McMiles, Jeff Mincham,
Lyndal Moor, Fiona Murphy, Jenny Orchard,
Susan Ostling, Warren Palmer, Dianne Peach,
David Potter, Arthur Rosser, Carol Rosser,
Barbara Swarbrick, Stefan Szonyi,
Sandra Taylor, Mark Themann.

A 24 page catalogue is held in Australian Libraries.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Jenny Orchard: ceramics
Date
1985
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. An exhibition of ceramics, showing Jenny Orchard’s innovative approach to form and decoration

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery annual report 1985-86

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Ceramics
exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1981
Place
Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition