After 25 years combining a law practice in Auckland City with raising three children, Jenny is now working full-time as a cast glass artist from her studio in Auckland.
The fundamental idea in Jenny’s work is to cast patterns abstracted from nature into glass, to convey a sense of timeless strength.
In her series "Silk Road: Patterns of Time", textures, folds and colours of silk are translated into glass to evoke the textures and patterns of our environment, and to convey the timeless nature of these ever-recurring patterns and their sense of inevitability.
Jenny’s "Totem Towers" are tall sculptures suitable for indoors and outdoors in which iconic patterns evocative of our landscape are cast into glass, conveying a sense of history and a sense of place.
Her "Strata: Levels of Time" was developed to reflect the layers of our landscape, the layers of our history and of our society.
In Jenny’s "Landscape" series, texture and form combine to convey the ruggedness and drama of New Zealand’s landscape and seascape.
Her "Spirit Stones" echo patterns of our landscape, with an ethereal quality hinting at the spirits of our ancestors.
Jenny has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, the USA, the UK, and France. Her galleries have taken her works to SOFA Chicago, Palm Beach Florida, Art London, and ICFF New York. She has twice been a finalist in the prestigious Australian Ranamok Glass Prize, and has twice won People’s Choice Prize at NZ Glass Society Members’ Exhibitions. In 2006 she was selected from glass artists worldwide by a British curator for a book titled "50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass". In 2007 she was selected as one of ten New Zealand glass artists to exhibit along with finalists of the international Bombay Sapphire Glass Prize. In 2009, Jenny was selected as one of New Zealand’s key glass artists to exhibit in a touring exhibition "Looking Glass: reflecting ideas".
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| Apr 2007 | Mayor of Auckland's Community Safety Awards 2007 |
contacts
jenny smith
tel. +64 9 378 6304
mob. +64 27 248 4340
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