Jennie Nayton
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Jennie combines elements of photography, drawing and sculpture together in her unique artform which is based on techniques of origamic architecture. Her works begin as marquettes in paper but are then translated in a variety of mediums, such as stainless steel, tessellating ceramic forms, large free standing cast concrete forms, acrylic and bronze.
She graduated in 2004 from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts (Art) with Honours. Since then she has held three solo exhibitions, her last one Pause the Moment held at Gallery East in 2010. She won the 2007 City of South Perth Acquisitive Art Award and has been a finalist in a number of group exhibitions including the Off the Wall Feature at Art Melbourne 07, Art Sydney and Art Brisbane 08, the Fremantle Print Awards (2002, 2006 and 2008), the Sydney Art on Paper Fair (2005), the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award (2005 & 2006) and the City of Perth Photomedia Award (2006). In 2009 Jennie moved into Public Art and has since won 11 major public artwork commissions, these commissions are in installed in various locations across the Western Australia including one on Adelaide Terrace in Perth. Jennie is included in a number of state and national collections including Artbank, the State Library of Queensland and Parliament House in Canberra.
