Jenny Murray-Jones was born in 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria. Her father was from the Wiradjuri people of New South Wales and the neighbouring Yorta Yorta people of Victoria. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University.
Murray-Jones works in oil on linen. In her artist statement for the 2003 exhibition 'CON-SENT-TRICK SIR-KILLS’ at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in St Kilda, Jones says that her work is “about images, the images which are part of my identity. I want to recreate the many images which have been taken from us. In many cases, these images have been used against us. I am responding to the many ethnographic images which found their way onto postcards and into the archives of government departments. These are to a great extent, still locked away. These images are our faces and the faces of our ancestors, yet we have had no access to them.” (www.lindenarts.org/show/2003/0705/gallery3.html accessed April, 2009).
Murray-Jones is part of a Gippsland based arts group known as The Wild Dogs from Down Under, a group of visual artists who are united by their connection to the Gippsland region of Victoria. She has exhibited with fellow Wild Dog artist Eileen Harrison at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne in their exhibition 'Our Home Our Place’ _. _
Murray-Jones works as a teacher at the Drouin Secondary College and has works in the collection of the Baw Baw Shire Council.
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- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2011
