Jennifer Keeler-Milne
Jennifer Keeler-Milne (born 1961) is an Australian contemporary artist who is best known for her sumptuous landscape oil paintings and large-scale charcoal drawings. Keeler-Milne draws on traditional oil painting techniques to create striking contemporary works.
She trained in Melbourne at Melbourne State College, the Victorian College of the Arts, and the College of Fine Arts, COFA.
Keeler-Milne was awarded the Fred Williams Family Prize in 1991.
Her richly textured and dramatic work transcends its subject matter with deeply evocative references to the landscape that are both imaginative and perceptive.
Her drawings have been frequentally selected to hang in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
She has held multiple solo exhibitions in Australia, and participated in over 30 group exhibitions in Australia & England.
Jennifer has been invited to participate in "Not the Way Home". This creative expedition is being managed by Artist Profile magazine, and takes 13 coastal based artists into the amazing environs of Fowlers Gap, a remote research station run by the University of NSW, off the Silver City Highway in far western NSW. The expedition is being recorded by the ABC and will culminate with an exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in May 2012.
Her work is held by Artbank, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Lord Reith collection as well as many private collections in the USA, France, England & Australia.
Keeler-Milne has produced two books, My Big Art Adventure: What Colour is That? and My Big Art Adventure: What Number is That? Both books are published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. My Big Art Adventure: What Number is That? was chosen by The Children’s Book Council of Australia as a Notable Book in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2006, is included in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge as well as the ACT Chief Minister's Reading Challenge.
References
The Sydney Morning Herald, Courtney Kidd Exhibitions Critics Picks, 25 May 2001
King Street Gallery on Burton, George Alexander Conversations with Clouds, May 2001
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sebastian Smee Review of Kedumba Drawing Award, 28 October 2000
External links
- Dobell Prize
- AGNSW Visibility/Invisibility
- The Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize Exhibition 2007
- Ivan Dougherty Gallery (Going) Out There
- Tim Olsen Gallery CV
- Premier's Reading Challenge
- Chief Minister's Reading Challenge
- Dobell Prize
- Not the Way Home
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