
Performance with Australian Arts Orchestra at MONA Tasmania 24th Sept 2022

Performance with Australian Arts Orchestra at MONA Tasmania 24th Sept 2022
I want to acknowledge 60,000 years of indigenous fortitude and resilience, 60,000 years of caring for country, gaining wisdom and now despite centuries of colonial atrocities, indigenous willingness to share vital awareness’s, including the power of country as creator and as provider of nurture.
Jenny will create a series of songs, including acapela and accompanied for her presentation at Blindside. The title of the exhibition is Countries so far, Songs so far, Sense so far and is an investigation of Family Systems and epigenetics. There will be song; there will be events, including games; there will be conversation and debate. Hope you can join in.
Picture from 1963, Ian leaving Adelaide airport for six months travel overseas, Jude soon to follow. Photographer unkown.
Recording and production of the songs was done by Joel Stern on 2nd August 2021. Jenny Hickinbotham lyrics and vocals, Steph Treesea, ukulele and vocals and James Rushford electric organ and vocals. I really want to thank these wonderful people for their amazing support of me and my singing debut.
Lyrics
He picked her up in Wolfie’s ute
Nurses and grape vine-workers
Hitting Mount Gambier’s hotspots
Police stopped the homeward lads
‘Seen a missing jumbuck?’ baaaa, baaaa
lads cried out beneath their tarp
Science lead them forward
History took them back
Jude a gourmet creative
Ian Australia’s plonky
A family tilting at windmills
She accepted his offer over the Spirit’s
radio, on route to Launceton hospital
Sister Norma, telephonist, eavesdropper witness
Married at St James in Melbourne
Auntie Eve ironed 23 shirts
Jude paid their honeymoon
Science lead them forward
History took them back
Jude a gourmet creative
Ian Australia’s plonky
A family tilting at windmills
Jude sewed kids’ clothes
Her suits were tailor made
Jude loved gardening, growing veg
Ian’s vintage pressures saw kids
Lying on grass, watching evening clouds
Drift by as tigers elephants & clowns
Science lead them forward
History took them back
Jude a gourmet creative
Ian Australia’s plonky
A family tilting at windmills
Barossa valley to Melbourne they created
A famous icon called Gini’s of Toorak
He needed a hip replacement, 2nd in Aus
She found the pressure exhausting
Back to nursing, kids all grown
He became a journalist & an educator
Science lead them forward
History took them back
Jude a gourmet creative
Ian Australia’s plonky
A family tilting at windmills
Kids travelled to Bordeau France
To Saratoga California to Lausanne Swiss
They leased Mount Anakie vineyard
Ian & Jude visitors, kids creative endeavours
Their passions for caring, food & wine
Remembered in story, song and pictures
Science lead them forward
History took them back
Jude a gourmet creative
Ian Australia’s plonky
A family tilting at windmills
Acrylic on canvas, 2m across by 1.5m deep
Artist, writer, wise woman, community enthusiast, trauma navigator, peer coach, enthusiastic art student/researcher.
Artistic creations for you and for me.
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 SA, 1996.
Open University Australia (Curtin University) BA, Fine Art and Visual Culture. 2016
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, 2017
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 SA, 1996.
Open University Australia (Curtin University) BA, Fine Art and Visual Culture. 2016
Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, 2017 to 2019 GPA 3.8
Honours RMIT Fine Art 2020. 1st Class Honours, Deans Award for Excellence
Masters Coursework RMIT Fine Art 2021 – current.
Awards & Residencies
2020 RMIT Liquid Architecture Graduate Prize for Sound Art.
2020 Deans Award for Excellence, BA Fine Art (Honours)
Out of Site at Home, Through First Site Gallery, RMIT, 6th to 27th July 2020
Highly Commended at Hobsons Bay Rotary Art Show, Williamstown Harbour, etching, 10 x 8 cms, 2016.
Group Exhibitions
Upcoming:
Awards & Residencies
2020 RMIT Liquid Architecture Graduate Prize for Sound Art.
2020 Deans Award for Excellence, BA Fine Art (Honours)
Out of Site at Home, Through First Site Gallery, RMIT, 6th to 27th July 2020
Highly Commended at Hobsons Bay Rotary Art Show, Williamstown Harbour, etching, 10 x 8 cms, 2016.
Group Exhibitions
Upcoming: Blindside 1st September to 18th September, Voices we Hear,Commissioned by Liquid Architecture
The Art Room, sold At Cherry Lake, oil on linen approx. 120 x 90cms, Melbourne, Victoria.
Tactile Arts, Constellations, Darwin, Northern Territory.
Darwin Visual Arts, Funk to Junk, November 2016, Darwin, Northern Territory.
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.
SACI University Florence, Group exhibition. 2018
RMIT Graduate Exhibition, Nov 21 to 17, three videos, Connection… each 10.23 mins
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
MOJO Film Festival 2020, awarded for At Home with Covid, 3 min MP$ video
Death in a Box, Emergency Artists Collective, online 31stOctober – 30 November 2020
Solo Exhibitions.
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.
‘Round the Reel’, exhibition at Art on Piper, Kyneton, Feb to August 2020
Writing Achievements
Coordinated, published and launched Visible Ink, RMIT Creative Writing Anthology 1990.
Fill My Cup, produced as a radio play at Flinders University 1992.
Bull-antsand Witch Volcano published online approx. 2000. http://www.earthplatform.com/jenny/hickinbotham.
Grant Writing, published Queensland Writer’s Centre Magasine
Writing Achievements
Coordinated, published and launched Visible Ink, RMIT Creative Writing Anthology 1990.
Fill My Cup, produced as a radio play at Flinders University 1992.
Bull-antsand 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.
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/
Toxic Relationships, 2019, published The Problem with Transference, RMIT Bowen Street Press.
Book Collaboration Project, Our Own Words, my contribution, Connection: Knowing like Breathing, published for distribution Dec 2019.
Psychology of Sex, published in Medium Online, 17th November, 2019.
Dear Granny, ABC radio 774 Facilitators Brain Nankervis and Jacinta Parsons, Friday Review, 28th August 2020
Work, art and literary experience and achievements over a number of years, detailed here.
CV June 2021 FW (doc)
DownloadEMAIL: jennyhickinbotham@gmail.com
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