Jenny Orchard, her Zookinii's and PlantAnimals.

"My Zookinii’s -PlantAnimals, PlantPeople and SoulFlowers are an irreligious, non prophet disorganization of recently departed extinct species and genetic labaroritory misfits who now reside in a place called Metempsychosia, from this place they now pursue their cause of Multispecies Empathy and Universal Compassion.
They visit me sometimes and I have reconstructed some of them for you to see, like the contents of Pandora’s box, they can be beneficial or otherwise; some are magnificently confused, some bizarre, some sublime. A Zookinii’s itchy touch comes from the Australian landscape - choko plants, banksias, the coral reef of Queensland, grasses and weeds, kangaroos and backyard chooks; they have mingled with strange genetic codes and foreign species.   
My work expresses my joy and awe at the diversity and beauty of all creation and its universal soul."

Bachelor of Art College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales 1977-1980,
Masters degree at Sydney College of the Arts 2006

Exhibitions
2010      Dining with Cannibals, Beaver Galleries
2010      The Sculpture Show, Febuary Brenda May gallery
2010      Sculpture Show, Frances Keevil Gallery
2010      The Inedible Zookinii, Cudgegong  gallery
2009      International Ceramic Conference, Maunsell  Wickes Gallery Sydney.
2009      Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Sydney
2009      Sculpture Show, Frances Keevil Gallery
2009      Animal Farm Brenda May gallery Sydney
2009      Replacements: other drawing, reveries of the everyday  Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
2008     Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Solo show  “Creatures of Consequence” 8th August - 14th September
2008     Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)  July 08 – Jan 09  Arafura Exchange Trajectory
           of memories, Tradition and Modernity in Ceramics. Australian and Indonesian artists.
2007     Sculpture Show, Frances Keevil Gallery
2007     Sydney College of the Arts  Zookiniis from Metempsychosia solo show.
2007     Maunsnsell Wickes  Misfits in Metempsychosia Solo show.
2007     Beaver Gallery Canberra  Solo show
2006     SOFA   Sculptural Objects and Functional Art  Chicago
2005     “Chilli”  Cudegong  Gallery  Gulgong.  June.
2005     Trace  COFA Exhibition/Performance Space  May .
2005     Plant People Soul Flowers, Beavergalleries
2004     Singular Visions. Cowra Art Gallery. (with Mandy Martin, Denese Oates, and Jenny Sages).
2004     Plant People, Soul Flowers.  Sir Herman Black Gallery. Sydney University. Part of Verge Arts Festival.
2004     Metempsychosis. The Foyer Gallery.  Sydney College of the Arts.
2004     The Hollow and the Whole. Contemporary Ceramics.  Delmar Gallery Sydney. curated by Merron Esson and Ruth Howard.
2003     Ceramics, the Australian and New Zealand Context.  Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery.
2003     The Christmas Show. The Ceramic Art Gallery,  Glenmore Rd  Paddington Sydney
2002     Odd Couples-Transitional Creatures.  Solo Show Beaver Galleries Canberra,
              Various group shows.                   
2001     International Ceramics Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham England
              Australian Dreamscapes Bartley Drey Gallery, London
2000     Australian Ceramics Marrianne Heller Gallery, Heidelberg
              Townsville ceramic award
              Cerebration Manly Art Gallery, Sydney.
              Di Jackson Gallery Melbourne
              Messages.  Beaver Gallery. Canberra
              Figures from a cheerful life Marrianne Heller Gallery Heidelberg
              Best in Sydney- shows in the Olympics guest lounges
1999     Solo show at the Centre for Contemporary Crafts Customs House, Sydney
1998     Sculptural Objects and Functional Art (S.O.F.A), Chicago
              Barry Stern Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
1997     Kutani International Invitation, Kutani, Japan
              Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney- With furniture from SOFA Chicago 1996
              Barry Stern Galleries, Paddington, Sydney
1996     Free the Breast Despard Gallery, Hobart
              SOFA Chicago USA/ Despard Gallery
1995     Delinquent Angel: Australian Historical, Aboriginal and Contemporary Ceramics
              Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Frenze, Italy
              SOFA Miama, Florida
1994     Chicago International New Art Forms Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago
1993     Chicago International New Art Forms Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago
              Modern Hybrids, Despard Gallery, Hobart
              The Family Show Despard Gallery, Hobart
              Artist in Residence, Lakeside Studio, Chicago USA
              CINAFE Chicago USA/Despard Gallery
1992     Gallery L of Hamburg, Germany
              Macqaurie Galleries, Sydney
1991     Macqaurie Galleries, Sydney
1990     Tao Gallery, Tokyo Japan
              Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1989     Perth International Crafts Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia
              Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
              Christine Abraham’s Gallery, Melbourne
1988     Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
              Macquarie Galleries (solo exhibition)
              Women 88 Awards, Hilton International, Melbourne
              Stuart Delvin Award Exhibition, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne
1986/7  Macquarie Galleries (solo exhibition)
1986     First National Ceramic Award
1985     Australian Crafts 1985, Meat Market, Melbourne
              The Patterned Edge, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney
              Clay & Fibre, Orange Regional Art Gallery
              Clay Statements, Darling Downs College of Advanced Education
              Just for Show, Shepparton Art Gallery and touring to regional galleries in Victoria and New South Wales
              Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne (solo exhibition)
              One person travelling exhibition in Tasmania
              Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
              Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
              Celebration, Collaborative Mural & Sculpture with Robyn Gordon, Macquarie Galleries
1982/4  Various Arts & Crafts Society of Victoria shows including Award Exhibition 1982, 83, 84
1984     Image and Surface, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney
              Australian Crafts 1984, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne
1983     Mayfair Ceramic Award Exhibition
              Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney
              Indulgences, Crafts Council Centre Gallery, Sydney
              Australian Crafts 1983, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne
1982     Artists-Ceramics, Wollongong Art Gallery
              Australian Crafts 1982, Meat Market Centre, Melbourne
1981     New Directions in Australian Ceramics, Distelfink gallery, Melbourne
              Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney (solo exhibition)
              Mayfair Ceramic Award Exhibition
              Meat Market Centre, Melbourne

Represented in collections
Australian National Gallery Canberra           
Aichi Prefecture Design Centre. Japan.
Victorian National Gallery.                
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Art Gallery of Western Australia           
Art Gallery of South Australia.
Queen Victoria Museum Launceston.           
Snowy Mountains Authority Cooma
Quensland Art Gallery               
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Gallery.               
Gold Coast Regional Art gallery
Queensland Institute of technology           
Shepparton Regional Gallery Victoria.
Orange regional Gallery               
Museum and Art Gallery, NorthernTerritory   
Power House Museum Sydney           
Darling Downs Institute Queensland.
University of New South Wales.           
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Grafton Regional Gallery                                                      
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery   

Publications
2006     Animals in clay.  Lark Books
2003     Ceramics Art and Perception no 52 
2002     Canberra Times 17th September
1997     Ceramics Art and Perception No 30 
              Masters of their Craft   Norris Iannow Craftsman Press
1996     Australian Art and Artists. Sue Mellville and Julie Rollinson Science Press
1995     Contemporary Ceramic Art in Australia and New Zealand.  Janet Mansfield. Craftsman House
1992     Ceramics Art and Perception No 7  
1989     Aspects of Art    L.Tessorrero and H.Nilson Science Press 
1988     A Collectors Guide to Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Janet Mansfield, Craftsman Press
1985     Spirit and Place, Artworks in Commonwealth properties in Australia. Pot Still Press.

Reviews
2010       Weekend Australian Review  Febuary 27- 28
2010       Canberra Times  5th March
2009       Indian Ceramic Quarterly Volume 4
2007       Canberra Times  2nd July
2005       Canberra Times  17th Feb
2003       Ceramics Art and Perception  no 52
2002       Canberra Times 3rd October.
2000       Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung 20 November
1998       Canberra Times 20 Feburary
                Muse Magazine March
1990       Huntleys Australian Art investor
1988       Financial Review 16 September
1987       Sydney Morning Herald 28th April
1986       Sydeney Morning Herld 3 Dec

Commissions
2009       Sculpture by the Sea
2005       Sculptures for M.L.C. school Sydney
2001       Sculpture for Joshua Berger Oxford Street Paddington Sydney. ( 6 metres Tall, metal ).
                Ceramic Murals for Sheraton Hotel Arlington Virginia U.S.A.
                Ceramic Murals for Darling Harbour Sydney.
                Ceramic Murals for Vatulele Resort Fiji.
                Teaching positions  held
                University of N.S.W. C.O.F.A. 
                Sydney University SCA  (casual)
                National Art School NAS (casual).
                Nepean T.A.F.E.