Canberra artist Jenny Blake painting in her studio.

Jenny Blake

Artist Jenny Blake - photo by Adam McGrath.


Jenny Blake grew up in regional New South Wales where she was encouraged to play, explore, and investigate nature.

The common theme in her work is the vulnerability and fragility of nature and people. Her work highlights many of the pressing issues of our times, climate change, waste, and land degradation.

Blake uses a mix of non-traditional and traditional painting tools, creating layers, peeling back, and adding further layers to create. She creates landscapes by building and eroding them away.

Over the last fifteen years, she has exhibited her work in several group shows and eight solo shows. Blake completed A Diploma of Visual Arts, with High Distinction at CIT Canberra 2017, winning the Graduates Emerging Artist prize and the Professional Practice prize. In 2021 Blake’s work was selected in the Salon des Refuses Lethbridge Prize.

Blake has a studio in the leafy Suburb of Holder, Canberra

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Exhibitions and awards

Education
2017 - Diploma of Visual Art Student, CIT Canberra Institute of Technology

Solo exhibitions

2022
Tipping point – Strathnairn Arts Holt ACT

2019
Sea Series - Splatter Gallery, Belconnen ACT

2018
Sea Series - Niugini Arabica Duffy, Canberra ACT
Block by Block – M16 Art Space, Canberra ACT

2015
Beyond our Hot Horizon - Strathnairn Gallery Canberra ACT

2008
Skylines - All Bar Nun Gallery Space, Canberra ACT

2006
Earth -Yarralumla Woolshed, Canberra ACT

Group exhibitions

2021
GX trail Exhibition - Strathnairn Link Canberra
OutsideIn | InsideOut - Belconnen Arts Centre

2018
Craft ACT -2018 Emerging Contemporaries

2017
CIT Diploma of Visual Arts Graduation Exhibition

2016
Illumi NOIR - Design Studio, CIT REID Campus Canberra ACT
Canberra Contemporary Art Space members show.

2015
Balance - The National Botanic Gardens Gallery, Canberra ACT

2010
COM.PULSIVE - The Q Gallery, Queanbeyan NSW

2008
Secrets - Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra ACT

2007
Autumn Spectrum - Old Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral NSW

2006
Milk Factory Gallery Bowral Annual Artists show

Teaching

MOCA – Preschool Early education introduction to art 2022
Spatter Gallery – Portrait painting for beginners
Belconnen arts Centre – Portrait Painting

Arts Employment

Blake and Chalkley Communications - Principal
ABC Local Radio NSW - Marketing Manager
Canberra Theatre Centre - Marketing and Communications Manager
National Gallery of Australia - Director of Communications
Tuggeranong Arts Centre - Manager Messengers Youth Program