Born: 1971 Mareeba QLD
Language: Yugambeh
Country: Yugambeh of the Bundjalung Nation
Region: South-east QLD & Northern NSW border

Jenny is a ‘New Media’ artist who works within a fluid screen-based practice. Due to the diverse creative media she uses, much of her work defies categorisation. Jenny’s work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour, she picks away at the fabric of contemporary society, exposing contradictions, absurdities and denial. In the series Road Kill, Jenny poses challenging visual images of lament of animals in the lands of the Bundjalung Nation. The photographs focus on the impact of progress and devastation. Jenny’s work is held in numerous national and international collections including the University of Wollongong, NSW; ART Station in Kollmitzberg and Sammlung Essl (both in Austria); RMIT, Melbourne; and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

AWARDS + PRIZES
2008 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards - finalist
2007 Honourable Mention, New Media Category, imagineNATIVE festival, Toronto, Canada
2007 Judges Prize, Stockland Art Award, Qld
2006 pre-selected, imagineNATIVE festival, Toronto, Canada
2006 pre-selected, Artworkers Award, Brisbane
2006 Gold Coast Indigenous Art & Design Award - Photography
2004/05 Creative Fellowship – 1 year, Arts Queensland, Brisbane
2003 Special Excellence Award in Arts and Culture, Creative Industries, QUT Alumni
2003 Finalist, Best Website… ATOM Awards, Melbourne
2002 Recipient – APA: Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
2001 SBS Scholarship to attend the Australian Screen Directors Association Conference, Melbourne
2001 Recipient – WIT [Women in Information Technology] Postgraduate Scholarship Award 2001
1999 Finalist - Short Film Competition - Channel V, Sydney
1998 Finalist – Best Short Film - Pandanus Film Festival - Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Q

RESIDENCIES
2008 Marrackville Council National & International Residency, Sydney
2007 24hr Art Contemporary Art Space, Darwin
2005/06 Raw Space Galleries, Brisbane
2005 ARTstation, Kollmitzberg, Austria
2005 MVA, Banff Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada
2005 The Quarry Art Centre, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
2004 Le Fevre High School, Adelaide, South Australia
2003 Communion & Other Conversations, Indigenous Artists-In-Residence Program, MVA, Banff, Canada
2003 NEWflames program, Campfire Group Studios, Fire-works Gallery
2002 Coen Community, Cape York, E-Book Production
2002 Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School, SA, Adelaide Festival of Arts
2001 Hermannsburg Potters, Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008 ‘Political Kunst’ Art Monthly, March, #207, p7
2008 ’Von Wegen Menschenrechte’ Sued Deutsche, 24 January, R 2
2008 ’Politische Kunst aus Australien’ Sued Deutsche, 24 January, R 1
2008 ’Kunst – zeitkritisch und interkontinental’ Dachau 25 January, Nr 21
2007 ‘Aboriginal New Media Art, a real cultural practice?’ Book: LA SFIDA DEL ARTE, the challenge of Art, Italy
2007 ‘APT: Aboriginal People Try’ Djon Mundine, Artlink Magazine, April 2007
2007 CollaboraNative, Flying Arts Annual Magazine, March
2007 Profile – NAVA Quarterly, March
2006 ‘the other APT, an exhibition of other perspectives’, Kylie Gaffney, Machine Magazine, p17
2006 ‘Another Viewpoint’, Ben Eltham, Courier Mail, 28 November, p 53
2006 ‘Grab Culture’, Sally Butler, Machine Magazine, p16
2006 ‘other[wize]’ Review by Sally Butler, Artlink Contemporary Art Quarterly Vol 26, No 2, p89
2006 ‘Make em Laugh’ Courier Mail, January 31st, p14
2006 ‘Transference, Tradition, Technology’ Native New Media, Exploring Visual & Digital Culture, Banff Art Centre, Canada
2005 ‘Interzone: Media Arts in Australia’, Book: New Art Series, Darren Tofts
2005 ‘Other[wize]: Jenny Fraser’ Catalogue Essay, Linda Carroli
2005 Catalogue: ARC Art, Design & Craft Biennial, October, p43
2005 ‘The Journey’, National Indigenous Times, October
2005 ‘From Oz to Austria’, Koori Mail, October
2005 Catalogue: L’Art urbain du Pacifique, Diff Art Pacific,August p22
2005 ‘Drumbeats to Drumbytes: Globalizing Networked Aboriginal Art’ Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media etc
2005 APTN National News, Canada, July 29 (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) Winnipeg
2005 ‘Collective look beyond Aboriginal stereotypes’ NZ Herald, 8.6.05
2005 ‘Indians in cyberspace’ Mike MacDonald, Conundrum Magazine, Urban Shaman Gallery, Canada
2005 ‘Let my neck be washed by the waters of my own land’ Ngahiraka Mason, ArtLink Magazine, Vol 24, p87
2005 ‘Night Vision’ Visual Art, Spinach 7 Magazine, issue 5, summer 2004/05, p 55
2004 ‘Bell tolls for Black Art in a White World’ the Adelaide Review, p 20, Stephanie Raddock
2004 ‘Wise to the Vibe’ Courier Mail, Aug 18, p25
2004 ‘Window to another world’ the Courier Mail, July 24, BAM 2, 2004
2004 ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ Sally Blundell, New Zealand Listener http://www.listener.co.nz/default,2285.sm
2004 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 Years, p35
2003 ‘Artists Program draws on inspiration’, Debra Aldred, Courier Mail, BAM, March 8

COLLECTIONS
2007 Stockland, Brisbane; & University of Woollongong, NSW
2006 Private Collections
2005 ART station, Kollmitzberg, Austria
2004 Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
2003 Private Collections
2003 Kummara Association, Brisbane
2002 CAALAS Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, NT
2001 RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne VIC
2000 ACP - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

NEWS

• http://www.abc.net.au/speakingout/stories/s1153531.htm

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