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Jenny has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 Libris Awards, one of Australia’s premier artist book prizes. Artspace Mackay seeks to develop an awareness of the artist book through this biennial acquisitive exhibition and build on its collection of artist books from leading Australian artists.

Jenny is one of twelve printmakers who have work featured in a new exhibition at The Tweed Regional Art Gallery in Murwillumbah. ‘Local Provenance’ was curated by Jan Davis and Susi Muddiman and forms part of the nationwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Print Council of Australia.

The artists included in Local Provenance are Darren Bryant, Jan Davis, Sarah Harvey, Gary Jolley, Jenny Kitchener, Leonie Lane, Shelagh Morgan, Travis Paterson, Rochelle Summerville, Scott Trevelyan, Samuel Tupou and Christine Willcocks.

‘These artists have been selected for the quality of their prints and the way they have built their professional careers through continued exhibition and publication of their practice, critical review and further study,” Jan Davis said.

During late June/early July, Jenny completed a two-week residency in Cairns, which is located in the balmy tropical north of Queensland. The residency is part of Inkfest 2016, a festival and celebration of printmaking.

During the residency Jenny created a new series of prints which feature Australian parrots, titled ‘Preserved sky’. She incorporated monoprinted plants collected from the Cairns area into her linocuts along with collaged digital prints. Jenny also delivered a two-day linocut workshop and an artist’s talk.

‘The preserved sky’ series of prints, along with a selection of her other prints, will be exhibited as part of the Inkmasters Print Exhibition 2016 at The Tanks Art Centre in Cairns. The Inkmasters Exhibition will be opened by Akky van Ogtrop the president of The Print Council of Australia on July 29, 2016.

In March this year, Jenny was invited to collaborate with five other Northern Rivers artists as part of the Future Feminist Archives project. The FFA is a year-long project created to mark the 40th anniversary of International Women’s Year.

Jenny, along with Jan Davis, Leonine Lane, Shelagh Morgan, Liz Stops and Karla Dickens formed the Northern Rivers Country Women’s Chapter of the FFA and were one of nine other artist-led projects across NSW. The outcome of our collaboration was a poster/artists’ book which was exhibited at Cross Arts Projects gallery in Sydney’s Kings Cross during April.