Wendy Jagger
High Country
14 - 25 June 2023
G2
Opening Night
Friday 16 June | 6 - 8pm
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Wendy Jagger’s deep love of Australia’s alpine regions permeates her paintings and ceramics, with its unique, fragile flora, colours, and its dramatic and rugged terrain. Time spent exploring the high country has provided a plethora of imagery and lived experiences to inform her textural mark-making. When Wendy is painting the landscape, she likens the feeling she gets to creating an ode to a great wild love.
Artist Bio
Wendy Jagger’s work is strongly influenced by seasonal changes in the landscape and the diversity of native Australian flora, particularly in the alpine regions of northeast Victoria and the snowy high plains in New South Wales. She revels in painting en plein air, on location, using gouache or oils. These paintings, photographs, and drawings taken from the field are further developed in the studio in a range of painting media and translucent porcelain.
Her awarded work is held in private and public collections, both nationally and internationally, including Bendigo Art Gallery, Manningham Gallery, and Holmesglen TAFE Collection. She has completed commissioned pieces for clients such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Victorian State Parliament, Mazda Australia, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, and Mt Buller RMB. Her ceramics have been given as ministerial and corporate gifts.
Selected as a finalist in numerous national and international art prizes with her ceramics and paintings, Wendy’s painting ‘Roverland’, included in this ‘High Country’ exhibition, has just been one of 25 Finalists in the national Harden Art Prize in New South Wales in May.
Exhibiting regularly in solo, invitational, and group shows around Australia, Wendy will be having two solo exhibitions this year. Firstly, at Red Gallery in Fitzroy North, from 14-25 June, and then at the Hive Gallery in Ocean Grove for the month of September. Both exhibitions will be based on the landscape and will include plein air painting done on location, larger paintings, and ceramics inspired by the landscape. Her artwork is always available for viewing on her website, www.wendyjagger.com, and she has work represented in several galleries, including Craft, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, The Hive Gallery, and Beaver Galleries.
Wendy has more than 30 years of experience in art education, from primary through to tertiary levels. She now teaches weekly classes and workshops in her Mansfield studio, sharing her acquired knowledge and skills. She has opened her studio to the public on the Melbourne Cup weekend since 2010 and is the founder of the successful and growing Mansfield Open Studio Trail, otherwise known as MOST.
Artist CV
AWARDS / GRANTS:
2019 Grant Recipient – Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant
2019 Artist Residency – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW
2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan
2009 Arts Victoria Grant – Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School
2008 Winner - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – Mansfield Shire section (judges Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Mountains to the Sea – September – The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove VIC
2023 High Country – June - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy VIC
2010 22 Open Studio – now part of MOST- Mansfield Open Studio Trail
2019 Escarpment – The Produce Store, Victoria.
2019 Terrain – The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove, Victoria.
2018 Mallacoota Impressions – Mallacoota Art Space, Victoria
2017 ‘Elevation’ – Without Pier Gallery, Cheltenham
2015 SNOWLINE – Alpine Central, Mt Buller, August
2011 ‘New Work’ - Geelong Gallery – foyer
2008 ‘Wildflower’ - Craft Victoria, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2007-9 Mt Buller – concurrently with Mt Buller Art Prize
2006 ‘Elemental Exposure’ Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento
Juried Exhibitions (selection)
2023 SAM Open: Home, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC
2023 Finalist – Harden Landscape Prize, Harden NSW
2022 Finalist – Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra NSW
2022 Finalist – Omnia Art Prize, St Kevins College, Toorak VIC
2022 Finalist – Salon des Refusées – Lethbridge Landscape Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2022 Finalist – 3 Faces Portrait Prize, Arts Council Mansfield, Mansfield VIC
2021 Finalist - online – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2021 Finalist – 3 Faces Portrait Prize, Arts Council Mansfield, Mansfield VIC
2021 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Award, Arts Council Mansfield, Mansfield VIC
2020 Finalist - online – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2019 Grant Recipient – Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant
2019 Artist Residency – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW
2018 Finalist – 45th Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, New South Wales
2018 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Award, Mansfield Victoria
2017 Finalist – Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Finalist – Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee Victoria
2017 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Award, Mansfield Victoria
2016 Finalist – The Alice Prize for Contemporary Art, Alice Springs
2016 Finalist – Handpicked Handmade, Gallery Klei, Sydney
2015 Finalist – Clunes National Ceramic Award, Clunes Victoria
2015 Finalist x2 – Victorian Craft Excellence Award, Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2015 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2013 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan
2011 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2011 State of Design Festival – Design:Made: Trade, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
2009 Finalist - Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary National Award – Manningham City Gallery
2009 Arts Victoria Grant – Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School
2009 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery (Acquired for Manningham Collection)
2008 Winner Mansfield Shire - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – (Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)
2007 Finalist – Mt Buller Art Prize – painting. Mt Buller
2007 Fringe Furniture – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Museum
2005 ‘On The Table’ - Planet Furniture, Sydney
2004 ‘Composed’ – Gasworks St Kilda
Invitational Exhibitions (selection)
2019 Small Works – Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT
2018 Ceramica – Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte, Victoria
2017 Summer Smalls – Southern Buoy, Mornington
2017 ‘Coolart’ – Summer Exhibition, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring. Without Pier Gallery
2016 Works on Paper – Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Contemporary Porcelain 2 – 10 Australian Masters – Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney
2016 Harvest – Mansfield Art Gallery, Mansfield
2010 ‘Melting Pot ‘– a French / Australian exhibition, Manningham Gallery
2009 ‘Delicate Matters’ - Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne
2008 ‘In The Making’ Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2007 ‘And There Was Light’ - Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong NSW
2006 ‘Surface Connections’ – Manningham City Gallery, Victoria
2006 ‘High Tea – the Beauty of beakers’ Collect Gallery, Sydney
2004 9x5½ Exhibition – Antipodes Bookshop Gallery, Sorrento
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 ‘Our Backyard’ – Landscape paintings, The Mansfield Produce Store in April 2013
2011 ‘Beyond the Studio Door’ - Life Drawing exhibition, Mansfield VIC
2010 Botanica – Spring Arts, Mansfield VIC
2005 [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne - featured Ceramic artist
2003 ‘Clarity’ Skepsi on Swanston - Melbourne
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:
Mansfield Shire Gift to the Governor General, Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove, 2015
Mansfield Shire – Botanical Gardens – ‘Weather’s Coming’ sculpture – Wendy & David Jagger, 2013
National Gallery of Victoria – 150th Anniversary commemorative vessels for NGV shop, 2011
Bendigo Art Gallery – Eucalyptus Bell, purchased 2009
Manningham City Council – Grevillea Lace, purchased 2009
Mt Buller RMB – Regeneration, oil on canvas
Mazda Australia – 25 Corporate gifts for Foundation members, 2005
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE – collection, purchased 2004
Ministerial Gifts – from State and Federal Governments to visiting dignitaries
PUBLICATIONS: (Selection)
Mercedes Me Magazine – 17 March 2023
North East Living Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2020, pp30-33
The Age - Epicure
‘Ceramics Today’ – Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Books
Weekly Times – 29 June 2011
North By North East- May 2011
‘Handmade In Melbourne 2009’, (work featured on front cover)
House & Garden, May 2009
EDUCATION:
1987 Bachelor of Education (Art & Crafts) Melbourne College of Advanced Education
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts – Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
