Jenny Orchard

Jenny Orchard

Jenny respresented:

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; University of NSW; Queensland Institute of Technology; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic; Gold Coast City Gallery, Qld; Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW; Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW; Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, Cooma; Darling Downs Institute, Qld; Aichi Prefecture Design Centre, Japan.

Across three decades Jenny’s work has been included in over 200 exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, including most recently Uncertain Paradise, Art from Australia at Gallery Imazoo Seoul Korea in 2016. She also has had multiple bi-annual solo shows.

  • If you would like to see some of the teacher’s artworks, please visit Jenny’s website

Awards/ Comissions

  • 2017 1st Prize National Self Portrait prize . University of Queensland Art Museum
  • 2017 1st Prize Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award

* 2014 1st Prize Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Painting Prize (KAAFP)

* 2005 Sculptures for Methodist Ladies College, Sydney


  • 2002 Acquisitive award – Schubert International Ceramic Award
  • 2001 Gold Coast Ceramic Award
  • 1990 Commissioned outdoor sculpture for Joshua Berger, cnr Queen and Oxford street Paddington, Sydney

* 1987 Fish panels for Vatuele Resort, Fiji


  • 1986 Eight ceramic murals for Sheraton International Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA
  • 1985 ceramic mural for Darling Harbour, Sydney (21 x1 meters)

Recent Residencies

  • 2004 One year artist in residence Sydney College of the Arts
  • 2018 Australian National University. Ceramic Residency

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 Fusion- Contemporary Australian ceramics. Despard Gallery Hobart. (Part of the Australian Ceramics Triennial)

All Tomorrows Stories Mayspace Gallery Sydney

  • 2018-2019 Dobell Drawing Prize
  • 2017 Sidney Myer Ceramic Award
  • 2017 National Self Portrait prize Queensland University
  • 2014 Korean-Australia Arts Foundation painting prize
  • 2015 Uncertain Paradise" Gallery Imazoo, Seoul,

Art from Australia, Gail Art Museum, Seoul

  • 2011, 2010, 2009 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
  • 2009 The Sculpture Show", Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

The Inedible Zookinii, Cudgegong Gallery, NSW
 "
Replacements: Other Drawing,- Reveries of the Everyday", Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University
Animal Farm", Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
“Sculpture by the Sea”, Bondi,
International Ceramic Conference" Sydney

  • 2008 Arafura Exchange, Trajectory of memories – Tradition and Modernity in Ceramics, Australian and Indonesian artists",

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

  • 2006 SOFA, Sculptural Object and Functional Art

Chicago, USA


  • 2005 Trace" College of Fine Arts Exhibition/Performance space, University of NSW, Sydney
  • 2004 “Chilli” Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong

Contemporary Ceramics", Delmar Gallery, Sydney
* 2003 Singular Visions", Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
2003 The Ceramic Gallery,
Ceramics, The Australian and New Zealand context Campbelltown City Bicentennial ar gallery.

  • 2001 Ceramics,

International Ceramics Rufford Craft Center, Nottingham, UK

  • 2000 Australian Dreamscapes", Bartley Drey Gallery, London
Celebration", Manly Art Gallery, Sydney