Jennifer's practice is informed by the natural environment that surrounds her wherever she is: The Brisbane River ecology and Moreton Bay near her home have been a source of creativity for over twenty years. Remote sites such as Bimblebox Nature Refuge, and the Upper Hunter River region where she spent her formative years, have also informed her work.
The work investigates place and time through layering of imagery and mark making. Some artworks are made using watercolour, ink and paint while others combine found materials such as sediment, charcoal, and resin to create unique site-specific pieces through painting, printmaking, drawing, artist's books and nature art installations. Jennifer seeks to evoke her experience of being in and connected to the natural world while mindful of its unique, ancient and fragile ecosystems.
Born in Muswellbrook NSW
Jennifer's artwork is exhibited locally and internationally and is held in significant public and private collections.
Eight Brisbane River paintings on copper panel were purchased by the Brisbane City Collection and exhibited in The River: A History of Brisbane at the Museum of Brisbane during 2013-16.
The State Library of Queensland has acquired several works for their Artists' Book Collection: The books are unique and contain drawings, paintings and prints.
2017 Ngudooroo notes: Ngudooroo mangrove shoreline
2019 Hydro Asperites 1
2019 Hydro Asperites 11 River Revir
2020 Mudflats, endangered habitat
Jennifer's practice is informed by the natural environment that surrounds her wherever she is: The Brisbane River ecology and Moreton Bay near her home have been a source of creativity for over twenty years. Remote sites such as Bimblebox Nature Refuge, and the Upper Hunter River region where she spent her formative years, have also informed her work.
The work investigates place and time through layering of imagery and mark making. Some artworks are made using watercolour, ink and paint while others combine found materials such as sediment, charcoal, and resin to create unique site-specific pieces through painting, printmaking, drawing, artist's books and nature art installations. Jennifer seeks to evoke her experience of being in and connected to the natural world while mindful of its unique, ancient and fragile ecosystems.
Born in Muswellbrook NSW
Jennifer's artwork is exhibited locally and internationally and is held in significant public and private collections.
Eight Brisbane River paintings on copper panel were purchased by the Brisbane City Collection and exhibited in The River: A History of Brisbane at the Museum of Brisbane during 2013-16.
The State Library of Queensland has acquired several works for their Artists' Book Collection: The books are unique and contain drawings, paintings and prints.
2017 Ngudooroo notes: Ngudooroo mangrove shoreline
2019 Hydro Asperites 1
2019 Hydro Asperites 11 River Revir
2020 Mudflats, endangered habitat
Jennifer Stuerzl CV
PERSONAL DETAILS
WEBSITE: www.jenniferstuerzl.com.au
INSTAGRAM: @jenniferstuerzlart
EMAIL: jennifer.stuerzl@gmail.com
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2014 Master of Philosophy, (practice-led) Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
1989 Graduate Diploma of Arts in Gallery Management, City Art Institute Sydney (UNSW Art & Design) Sydney, Australia.
1980 Graduate Diploma in Art Education, Sydney Teachers College (SCA) Sydney, Australia.
1979 Bachelor of Arts, Major: Fine Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia.
EMPLOYMENT
Visual Artist southeast studios art projects, art workshops
Vice President-Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
- Brisbane City Collection, Museum of Brisbane, Australia
- State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Artists' Books Collection
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Rare Books Collection
- State Library of Victoria Collection, Melbourne, Australia
- Gladstone Regional Gallery Collection, Gladstone, Australia
- National Art School Print Department Archives, Sydney, Australia
- United Kingdom School of Art Gallery and Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales UK
- Hawaii University, Manoa, Arm and Roller Press Collection, Hawaii, USA
- Griffith University, Queensland College of Art (QCA) Print Department Collection, Brisbane, Australia
- University of Virginia Collection, Mountain Lake Biological Station, USA
- California State University, Black Dolphin Workshop, Long Beach, USA
- Tama Institute of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Whangarei Art Museum, New Zealand
- Alliance Francois Galleries, Vanuatu, USA
- The School of Art, Dawson College Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Bundaberg Sugar Pty Ltd Collection, Bundaberg, Australia
- Sealy Australia (Madad Pty Ltd) Brisbane, Australia
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2020 Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Australia Artist Book award for "Response to Text" Rivers Mangroves Mud
2019 Tidal Collective residency Bribie Island Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2019 Canaipa-Mudlines residency, Moreton Bay, Queensland Australia
2018 Artist in Residence, Moreton Bay Research Station, Facility of Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Artist in Residence, Artist’s Cottage Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia
2017 Artist in Residence, Nancy Fairfax Studio, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW, Australia
2017 Canaipa-Mudlines residency, Moreton Bay, Queensland Australia
2016 Impress Printmakers Studio inaugural prize (Highly Commended)
2016 Bimblebox Nature Refuge, Queensland, Australia
2013 Art/Science residency, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, USA
2006 Bundaberg Art Award, painting (First Prize)
2006 Warwick Regional Gallery Art Award painting (Highly Commended)
2005 Warwick Regional Gallery Art Award painting (Highly Commended)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, about a river
2019 The Hub Gallery, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia Inflow
2017 Graydon Gallery, New Farm Brisbane, Australia, Bimblebox to Gum Creek
2016 BEMAC, Queensland, Australia Multicultural Centre, Brisbane Traces
2012 QCA Griffith University Webb Gallery Brisbane, Australia, The Brisbane River, Art Ecology and Perception
2010 Griffith University Queensland College of Art (QCA) Brisbane, Australia, The Brisbane River
2009 Griffith University Queensland College of Art (QCA) Brisbane, Australia, The Brisbane River
2007 Metro Arts Gallery, Edward Street, Brisbane, Australia, Habitat
2006 Miskin Gallery In The Gardens, Brisbane, Australia, Studies in Light: The Brisbane River
2005 Gallery 482 Fortitude Valley Brisbane, Australia Custodians
2004 Gallery 482 Fortitude Valley Brisbane, Australia Reflection
2001 Gallery 482 Fortitude Valley Brisbane, Australia, Containment and Flight
1999 Handmark Gallery Salamanca Place, Hobart,Tasmania, Australia Life Threads
1998 Sidewalk Gallery Salamanca Place Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Life circle
1997 Sidewalk Gallery Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Transformation
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
- Redlands Art Gallery Cleveland Queensland Australia Canaipa-Mudlines: Art and Environment
- The Hub Gallery Caboolture Regional Gallery Queensland Australia Writing the Landscape
- Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020 online exhibition Southeast Studios
- Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Victoria Artist Book exhibition - River Mangroves Mud
- Impress printmakers Gallery Brisbane Queensland Getting Back Together Again
- Cross Gallery Bundaberg Queensland Australia selected Black or White exhibition
- Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Awards selected finalist Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Cross Gallery Bundaberg Queensland Australia The Art of the Paper Bag
- Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre Brisbane Queensland Australia Wetlanders
- Byron Art Magazine Bushfire Charity Auction, The Secret Garden Byron Bay NSW Australia
- La Trobe Art Institute Bendigo Victoria Australia. Rivers of Gold: An International Print Exhibition and Symposium
- Mary Cairncross Discovery Centre Maleny Queensland Australia. EcoWomen 1 southeast studios - a collaborative print exhibition International Womens' Day
- Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Overwintering co-ordinator Kate Gorringe-Smith
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery, An International Art- Geoscience Print Exhibition and Exchange with Impress Printmakers and Aberystwyth Printmakers Wales. Of Farmers Foresters and Fish: Tales from the Wildwoods of the Old and New Worlds.
- Woolloongabba Art Gallery Brisbane Toondah - Artists for Moreton Bay
- Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre Dandenong Victoria Australia – 9 x 5 exhibition
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Impressions 13
- The Peebles Print Prize selected finalist Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop Queenscliff Victoria Australia
- Sydney Contemporary Paper, Carriageworks Sydney Australia - Firestation Print Studio Melbourne
- Sydney Contemporary Paper, Carriageworks Sydney Australia- southeast studios Brisbane
- The Jolly Centre Seven Hills Cultural Hub Brisbane Australia Seven on Seven print exhibition
- Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award - selected finalist Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Moreton Bay Art Awards selected finalist painting Pine Rivers Art Gallery Strathpine Queensland Australia
- John Villiers Outback Prize selected finalist painting Waltzing Matilda Centre Winton Queensland Australia
- Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Victoria Australia II Bisonte - an International Print Exhibition
- Redlands Regional Art Gallery Cleveland Queensland Australia Tidal
- Gladstone Regional Gallery Gladstone Queensland Australia Overwintering artist's book
- Gladstone Regional Gallery Gladstone Queensland Australia Wetlanders
- Impress Printmakers Gallery and Studio Brisbane Queensland Australia Impress at Sydney Contemporary Paper 2018 exhibition, workshops and artists’ talks.
- State Library of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia Overwintering Firestation – Migaloo artists’ book exhibition.
- Rivers of Gold: International Print Portfolio and Exchange: An Art -Science Collaborative Project exhibition:
- Aberystwyth Arts Centre Wales UK.
- Lakes District Museum and Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand.
- Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre Dandenong Victoria Australia – 9 x 5 exhibition
- Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne Australia, selected - Contemporary Impressions: Spring Editions
- Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Summer Salon exhibition
- Whynham Art Gallery Werribee Victoria Overwintering exhibition and Firestation - Migaloo Artists’ Book exhibition
- Moonah Arts Centre Hobart Tasmania Australia Overwintering exhibition
- Sydney Paper Contemporary Carriageworks Sydney Australia Impress printmakers
- Rivers of Gold: International Print Portfolio and Exchange: An Art -Science Collaborative Project:
- Gympie Regional Gallery Gympie Queensland, Australia and Art
- Wharepuke, Kerikerri, New Zealand
- IMPACT 10 - ENCUENTRO Santander Spain, QCA Project Gallery, Brisbane Australia
- Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Australia Firestation Print Studio and The Dan Poets: An Anthology of Images.
- Moonah Arts Centre Hobart Tasmania Australia The Overwintering Project
- Firestation – Migaloo Overwintering Book exhibition at Firestation Print Studio Melbourne Australia.
- Firestation Print Studio at Il Bisonte Florence Italy - an International Print Exchange and Artist’s Book
- Gallery on Darling Balmain Sydney Australia - Inland
- The University of Queensland Art Museum Brisbane Australia – Not of This Earth – Smithsonian Exhibition Zine, and Comic and Artist’s Books
- Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards (selected finalist) Pine Rivers Art Gallery Strathpine, Queensland, Australia
- Gympie Regional Gallery Gympie Australia, selected - Ripple Effects
- Impress Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia and Kibria Print Studio, Home An International print exchange exhibition:
- Kibria Print Studio, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Impress Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
- Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne Australia, selected - Contemporary Impressions: Summer Editions
- Brunswick Street Gallery Melbourne Australia selected Contemporary Survey
- Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art Brisbane Australia Beautiful one Day Fruit Salad the Next
- Canaipa Artist Residency - Lines in the Sand Nature Art installation exhibition Turtle Swamp, Canaipa (Russell Island), Moreton Bay Queensland Australia.
- Impress Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia and Kibria Print Studio, Home An International print exchange exhibition:
- Kibria Print Studio, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Impress Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
- Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art - selected finalist Brisbane Art Awards Australia.
- Grahame Galleries + Editions 6th Artists' book and multiples fair, in conjunction with Abbe, 2017 QCA Brisbane Australia.
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia- Impressions 11 exhibition of drawings, prints and artist’s books.
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville Queensland Australia Postcards from North and South
- Arts in Oxford Gallery New Zealand From the Rivers to the Shore.
- Lethbridge Small Scale Art Awards Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- The Hahndorf Academy Gallery Adelaide Australia, Global Oceans: The Adelaide International Print Exchange.
- Taylor Jenson Fine Arts Parmerstone North New Zealand, Across the Ditch New Zealand and Australia print exchange.
- Firestation Print Studio Gallery Armadale, Melbourne, Australia, By the Book
- Hudgens Centre for the Arts Atlanta, USA Deep South and Down Under
- Firestation Print Studio and Atlanta printmakers exchange
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia, Vie Du Pacifique 11, International Print Exchange. Print council of Australia (PCA) 50 Years of Print.
- Redlands Regional Art Gallery selected finalist painting exhibition Queensland Australia.
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Impressions 10 exhibition.
- Firestation Print Studio and Gallery Melbourne Australia International Print Exchange: Deep South and Down Under
- Impress Gallery Brisbane Australia: Across the Ditch New Zealand & Australia print exchange.
- Impress printmakers Studio Gallery Elements the Inaugural Migaloo Press. PCA 50 Years of Print.
- Gympie Regional Gallery Queensland Australia, Mythscapes in the Watery Realm: Wales-Australia print exchange.
- Impress Printmakers Studio Gallery Brisbane Australia, 50/50 Inaugural Impress Print Prize
- Griffith University, QCA, Whitebox Gallery Brisbane Australia, Women of Substance: an international Australian print exhibition PCA 50 Years of Print.
- The Museum of Brisbane, Australia, The River: A History of Brisbane exhibition
- State Library of Queensland Brisbane Australia, Peace & Quiet landscapes.
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia, Impressions 9 exhibition
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia, A Flurry of Leaves in conjunction with Abbe Book International Conference QCA Griffith University
- The Museum of Brisbane, Australia, The River: A History of Brisbane exhibition.
- Griffith University QCA Project Gallery Brisbane Australia, Mythscapes in the Watery Realm: Wales - Australia print exchange.
- The Museum of Brisbane, Australia The River: A History of Brisbane
- Aberystwyth University Wales UK - International print exchange Mythscapes in the Watery Realm
- St Baker Gallery Redcliff, Queensland Australia Nautilus exhibition
- Eco Science precinct Brisbane selected Art/ Science exhibition, Brisbane Australia
- University of Virginia, MLBS USA Artists collective Artlab exhibition USA
- Griffith University Project Gallery Brisbane Australia QCA International Waterwheel Symposium and exhibition
- The Museum of Brisbane, Australia The River: A History of Brisbane exhibition
- Mangrove Hub Citizen Science art exhibition Moreton's Mangroves Cleveland, Brisbane Australia
- Heiser Gallery Brisbane Christmas Show, Brisbane, Australia
- Heiser Gallery Brisbane People and Places, Brisbane, Australia
- Edwina Corlette Gallery Brisbane Christmas Show Brisbane Australia
- Warwick Regional Gallery Art Award, selected finalist, Queensland Australia
- Tattersall’s Landscape Art Award, selected finalist, Brisbane Australia
- Heiser Gallery Brisbane 12+ Queensland Artists Brisbane Australia
- Australian Marine Conservation Society Brisbane Australia Art for Sharks
- Redcliffe Art Gallery Queensland Australia, selected finalist 15 Artists’ exhibition
- Australian Marine Conservation Society Brisbane Art for Sharks
- Tattersall’s Landscape Art Award, selected finalist, Brisbane Australia.
- Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Award, selected finalist, Queensland Australia
- Campbelltown Regional Gallery, selected finalist,NSW Australia Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
- Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, selected finalist, Art Award Queensland Australia
- Tattersall’s Landscape Art Award, selected finalist, Brisbane Australia
- Warwick Regional Gallery Art Award, selected finalist, Queensland Australia
- Muswellbrook Regional Gallery Art Award, selected finalist, NSW Australia
- Maitland Art Award, selected finalist, NSW Australia
- Bundaberg Regional Gallery Art Award, selected finalist, Queensland Australia
- Warwick Regional Gallery, selected finalist, Art Award Queensland Australia
- Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane Australia Miskin Gallery Seasalt to Saltbush.
- Kudos Gallery College of Fine Art University of NSW Sydney Australia, Alumni exhibition
- Westpac Mt Olivet Art Award Brisbane Australia Reflections of Life
- Maria Perides Gallery New Farm, Brisbane Australia
- Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Hobart Tasmania Australia, Celebrate Botanica
- Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (CAST) The Longest Gallery (Hobart Summer Festival) Australia
- The Sidewalk Gallery Hobart Tasmania Australia, Summer Exhibition Gorgeous Women
- Sidewalk Gallery at Art Expo Glen Eira Arts Complex, Caulfield Melbourne Victoria
ART PROJECTS AND CURATION 2017 – 2020
- Project curator and initiator EcoWomen 1 a collaborative print exhibition.Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve Theatrette Maleny Queensland Australia.
- Project Curator - co-organiser southeast studios at PAPER Contemporary 2020 Carriageworks Sydney NSW Australia
- Project Curator - co-organiser southeast studios at Sydney Paper Contemporary 2019, Carriageworks Sydney NSW Australia
- Project Curator - co-organiser Impressions 13 Impress printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Project Curator - co-organiser Of Foresters Farmers and Fish: Tales from the Wildwoods of the Old and New Worlds. An International Print Exchange 2019-21: An Art-Geoscience Collaborative Project Jude Macklin and Aberystwyth Printmakers Wales and Impress printmakers Brisbane Queensland.
- Project organiser for Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery to Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks Sydney Australia.
- Brisbane QCA Organiser and curator Rivers of Gold an International Print Portfolio and Exchange an Art Science Collaboration with Jude Macklin Wales UK.
- Curator Rivers of Gold exhibitions at Gympie Regional Gallery Australia and QCA Project Gallery Brisbane Australia in 2018.
- Project co-organiser Firestation and Migaloo Press Overwintering Collaborative artists' book project.
- Artist Practice Presentation at The Tweed Regional Gallery Murwillumbah NSW Australia
- Touring organiser for Mythscapes in the Watery Realm: Wales-Australia print exchange exhibition, Aberystwyth University Wales and Queensland College of Art Griffith University, Australia.
- Project co-organiser and curator Elements the Inaugural Migaloo Press Print Council of Australia (PCA) 50 years of print exhibition Impress Print Studio Gallery Brisbane Australia
- Project co-organiser and curator Women of Substance: an international – Australian print exhibition PCA 50 years of print, Griffith University, QCA, Whitebox Gallery Griffith University Brisbane Australia
- Organised and collated the Women of Substance solander box print folio collection
- Project co-organiser and curator Vie Du Pacifique II, International Print Exchange PCA 50 years of print. Impress Gallery Brisbane Australia
- Judge, Art Rush – Gympie Regional Gallery Art Prize, Queensland, Australia.
PUBLICATIONS
- Of Foresters, Farmers and Fish: Tales from the Wildwoods of the Old and New Worlds catalogue pp 3,4,5,40,
- Conversation with Myf Warhurst, ABC Radio National: Overwintering, Australia’s endangered migratory birds. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/myf-warhurst/birds/10542154
- Rivers of Gold by Jennifer Stuerzl, Jude Macklin, Mark Macklin, Susan Lawrence https://www.printcouncil.org.au/catherine-pilgrim-mrs-larritt-in-upside-down-country-2/
- Rivers of Gold International Print Portfolio and Exchange 2017-2020: An Art Science Collaborative Project. Online booklet http://www.whitefire-designs.co.uk/rivers_of_gold.pdf pp 6,45,
- Home - Dhaka Brisbane International Print Exchange 2017-18. Kibria Printmaking studio and impress Printmakers studio
- Overwintering Firestation & Migaloo Press, co-editor, published by Firestation Print Studio
- Firestation Print Studio and The Dan Poets: An Anthology of Images. p 78
- Firestation in Florence: A Catalogue of Works p 30 Firestation Print Studio
- Mythscapes in the Watery Realm – Wales-Australia print exchange exhibition catalogue, 2013
- The River: A History of Brisbane, catalogue Museum of Brisbane King George Square Queensland 2013 pp 15,26,58,100,140,182
- Painting the Brisbane River: Exploring the Synergy between Time, Ecology, Theory and Practice Studio Research journal #0 2011 pp 33-41 Queensland College of Art Griffith University Brisbane Australia
- Gallery Watch - Review by Joerg Andersch Life Circle - paintings at the Sidewalk Gallery Hobart Mercury August 22
- Gallery Watch - Review by Joerg Andersch Transformation - paintings and drawings Sidewalk Gallery Hobart Mercury July 26
- A Personal Journey by Jodi de Cesare Mercury Hobart July 27
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- University of NSW Alumni Sydney Australia
- The University of Sydney Alumni Sydney Australia
- Griffith University Alumni Brisbane Australia
- Impress Printmakers Studio and Gallery Brisbane Australia
- Print Council of Australia, Melbourne Australia
- Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne, Australia
- NAVA