Characterised through bold colours, multiple textures and floral adornments, Jenny Orchard captures the awkward collision between art and the fragile future of biogenetics....
There was one work in particular that stood out in this year's National Self-Portrait Prize; ‘it’s playful, celebratory and intriguing – and revealed something new each time I returned to it’, said judge Erica Green....
Jenny Orchard is this year's winner of the biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Art Award (SMFACA), the premier national award for ceramicists with a $50,000 prize acquisition, for her work The Imagined Possibility of Unity (2017)....
The works in this show, as described by Jenny herself, form part of “a narrative about fictitious and parallel worlds in a state of change, where evolutionary processes, through both intervention and sheer serendipity, have been sped up or torn apart forever.”...