Assessment submission s9051257 RMIT Fine Art Honours 2020: Project: TO Build A Brain
About Jenny
Jenny and Puck @ The Art Room, Footscray
Artist, writer, wise woman, community enthusiast, trauma navigator, peer coach, enthusiastic art student/researcher.
Artistic creations for you and for me.
Art & Poetry
Florentine Stars.
Stars, seven sisters, gaze into oblivion.
Millions of ages go by…
Venus says, shine a path for her,
and points.
Seven sisters look to earth,
to Florence,
to Mercato Centrale,
to Mercato di San Lorenzo.
She’s drinking Spritz at her local.
She’s watching leather merchants
wheel their portable market stalls to overnight digs.
She’s watching drivers negotiate the narrowness.
Photography
She’s laughing at footy barrackers, yelling and cheering.
She’s thinking of her day.
visits to famous art houses,
Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Gallery Academia.
She’s dreaming of dancing,
with David,
so tall,
solid and handsome.
He hasn’t slain Goliath yet,
so, what’s he so beautiful about, she ponders?
And coming around,
the solid, handsome, bronzed waiter is offering another.
What do the sisters say?
Biography
Qualifications
Artistic Achievements
Artistic Achievements
Certificate of Creative Writing, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1990
Bachelor of Arts, Majors English and Drama, Flinders University, 1991 - 1995
Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies from University of South Australia, 1996.
Open University Australia (Curtin University) BA, Fine Art and Visual Culture.
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, 2019.
Artistic Achievements
Artistic Achievements
Artistic Achievements
Group Exhibitions
Selfie, photograph, 2017, RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
Redmond Treehouse, 2017, Artists Guild, Melbourne, Australia (sold)
Hiraeth, Tacit Studio, Abbotsford, Melbourne, December 2018.
Walk A Mile in my Shoes, sponsor TreeHaus, Community Event Williamstown Reserve 2018.
Brunswick Street Gallery, sm
Group Exhibitions
Selfie, photograph, 2017, RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia
Redmond Treehouse, 2017, Artists Guild, Melbourne, Australia (sold)
Hiraeth, Tacit Studio, Abbotsford, Melbourne, December 2018.
Walk A Mile in my Shoes, sponsor TreeHaus, Community Event Williamstown Reserve 2018.
Brunswick Street Gallery, small works, 2018
Linden new Art, postcard show, 2018.
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, Nov 21 to 17, three videos, Connection… each 10.23 mins
Solo Exhibitions.
MOJO Film Festival 2018, awarded for Therapy and Me, my 3.30 min MP4 video
MOJO film Festival 2019, awarded for Connecting and Creating after Trauma, 7 min MP4 video
Turning & Turning in Redwood State Forest, three videos/screens, RMIT Building 2, Melb.
Facebook Me, Gasworks Park, Mirrors back to back. Melbourne, Australia. November 2018.
Awards
Highly Commended, Hobsons Bay Art Show 2018, Williamstown Harbour, etching, 10 x 8cms.
Literary Successes
Artistic Achievements
Literary Successes
Coordinated, published and launched Visible Ink, RMIT University’s Creative Writing Anthology 1990.
Fill My Cup, produced as a radio play at Flinders University 1992.
Bull-ants and Witch Volcano published online approx. 2000. http://www.earthplatform.com/jenny/hickinbotham.
Grant Writing, published Queensland Writer’s Centre Magasine approx.
Coordinated, published and launched Visible Ink, RMIT University’s Creative Writing Anthology 1990.
Fill My Cup, produced as a radio play at Flinders University 1992.
Bull-ants and Witch Volcano published online approx. 2000. http://www.earthplatform.com/jenny/hickinbotham.
Grant Writing, published Queensland Writer’s Centre Magasine approx. 2010.
Death Becomes Us All, Read on SynNation Radio, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. 13 Sept 2018. Hear it at jennyhickinbotham.com
Syn Nation Radio, hear their interview and reading at jennyhickinbotham.com
When I Had a Grandpa, and Risking It All, The Corvus RMIT, 11 November 2018.
https://thecorvusrmit.com/category/poetry
The Problem with Transference, 2019, in Toxic Relationships, publisher RMIT Bowen Street Press.
Our Own Words, Collaborative Book Project, 2019. https://www.booktopia.com.au/our-own-words-the-collaborative-book-project/ebook/9781922391117.html
Psychology of Sex, published in Medium Online, 17th November, 2019.