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Born Sydney, 1968
EDUCATION 2009–11 Master of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney Including a semester on international exchange to Cardiff School of Art & Design, UK, Master of Ceramics program. MFA research paper topic: 'The Object of the Archive'. 2002–03 Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary), University of Western Sydney 1995–96 Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts 1992–95 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts 1987–90 Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 - UPCOMING - Biome, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW EXHIBITIONS 2019 - Birdland, Mount Victoria Railway Museum, NSW 2018 - Botanica, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW 2018 - Echo Call, Woodford Academy, National Trust, Woodford, NSW 2017 - Field Trip, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives - BigCi, Bilpin, NSW 2017 - WAS Biennale, Modern Art Projects - MAP, Blue Mountains, NSW 2016- NorthWest, North Contemporary Art Space with MAP, North Sydney, NSW 2015 - Reflex Shadow Screen, WEST Project Space, Hazlebrook, NSW 2014 - Shelter, Woodford Academy, National Trust, Woodford, NSW 2014 - Shadow Weave, Regional Art Space, Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW 2014 - Cultivate: New Artisans Exhibition, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney 2014- Collectors’ Edition #1, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW 2014 - Sculpture At Scenic World, Blue Mountains, Australia 2014 - SPLICE, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, Sydney 2013 - Making Ground, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, NSW 2012 Beyond the Borders, ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA 2011 Post Graduate Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney 1997 Homebrand, Casula Powerhouse, NSW 1996 Next, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney 1995 Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Perth 1995 eatME, Zitlip Gallery, Chippendale 1995 Out of Context, Craftspace, Sydney 1995 From Strength and Hope, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo; Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery 1995 Tools, Towers, Tables and Other Tails, Zitlip, Chippendale, NSW 1994 New Professional Grant Exhibition, Craftspace, Sydney 1994 Bounce, Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney PROJECTS 2018 Curator, DUST: An exhibition about insects, collections and care, Woodford Academy, National Trust, Woodford, NSW 2012 Mentor, BElonging: Art at the Margins, Nepean Youth Accommodation Services, Penrith ^ TOP AWARDS 2014 Winner, Major Acquisitive Award, Sculpture at Scenic World 2011 Finalist, Dominik Mersch Gallery Award, Sydney College of the Arts 2010 Zelda Stedman Student Travel Scholarship, Sydney College of the Arts 1994 Finalist, New Professional Grant, NSW Crafts Council REVIEWS / ARTICLES Turning up the heat on pests at Woodford Academy, Blue Mountains Gazette, January 30 2019 - 4:49PM Link 'A tale of cicadas and the Woodford Academy', Blue Mountains Gazette, 14 Jan 2015, p 38 'Cultivate: New Artisans', ARTAND , Reviews/Commentary - selected exhibition ' Cultivate: New Artisans 2014 Exhibition', Raven Contemporary Katarina Sakkas, 'Environmentally integrated art-making: Sculpture at Scenic World exhibition, 24 Apri - 18 May,' review, Real Time, issue 121, 2014 Elizabeth Fortescue, 'Strangers in the Forest,' review, Daily Telegraph Best Weekend, 26 May 2014, pp 8-9 'Pottery in the Vines Takes Prize', news, Blue Mountains Gazette, 30 Apr 2014 , p 19 Gina Fairly, 'Sculpture at Scenic World', review, Artshub, 29 Apr 2014 Caitlin Gibon, 'Sculpture at Scenic World', interview, 2SER 107.3, 26 Apr 2014 Caterina Leone, 'Making Ground: Blue Mountains as Material', review, Australian Ceramics, 17 January 2014 Libby Sullivan, 'Lawson’s Creatives', profile, The Cloudscape, 20 Aug 2013 'Art on the Margins', Blue Mountains Gazette, arts, 14 November 2012 Pottery in Australia, profile graduate work, 1995, 1997 COLLECTIONS Scenic World sculpture collection; Everett Community College art collection, Washington; private collections. ^ TOP CONFERENCES & PUBLIC SPEAKING 2014 'Shelter' Woodford Academy, National Trust, Blue Mountains, artist talk 2014 Nepean TAFE Fine Arts students, artist talk 2014 ‘Recalcitrance in the Archive’, conference paper, Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions, Australian National University 2014 Workshop presentation, The Anthroposcene: Aritsts and Writers in Critical Dialogue with Nature and Ecosystems, Australian National University 2014 'Cascade Artist Studios, Pecha Kucha, Blue Mountains 2013 ' BElonging: Art at the Margins,' Pecha Kucha, Blue Mountains 2012 'The little birds must die,' panel paper, Philosophical and Ethical Directions, Australian Ceramics Triennial, 28 Sept–2 Oct, Adelaide, SA COLLABORATIONS 2013 Beata Geyer ‘Lemon (Ian Millis project), Artspace, Sydney, 7 Nov– 8 Dec PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP National Association of Visual Artists ^ TOP PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Current - Senior Collections Officer, Sydney University Museums 2016-2017 - Executive Officer, The Dictionary of Sydney 2016 - Casual Lecturer - Fine Arts, Federation University through WSI, Nepean 2013-2015 - Coordinating Editor, The Dictionary of Sydney 2012 established Cascade Artist Studios, Lawson 2012 Mentor, BElonging: Art at the Margins project, Nepean Youth Accommodation Services Mar–Jun 2012, Casual Lecturer, Foundation Studies, Sydney College of the Arts Jun–Sep 2012, Project Officer, ObjectLab, Sydney College of the Arts Dec 2006–2010, Project Manager, SCA Images Online, Sydney College of the Arts Jun–Dec 2006, Educational Designer, Sydney College of the Arts, USyd Mar–Dec 2006, Project Officer, Digital Archive Project, Sydney College of the Arts Mar–May 2006, Research Assistant, Sydney College of the Arts, USyd Jan–Dec 2005, Visual Arts Teacher, NSW Department for Education and Training Jan–Dec 2004, Ceramics Teacher, Gymea TAFE (Ceramic Design Studio) TAFE NSW Jan–Dec 2004, NSW Dept of Education and Training Feb 2003–04, Editorial Assistant, Ceramics: Art & Perception magazine 1996- present - freelance editing and publication design ^ TOP |
Photo by Ona Janzen, 2014.
Jacqueline Spedding is a Blue Mountains based artist with a Master of Fine Arts majoring in ceramics. Jacqueline uses found objects and organic material in her sculptural practice and installations. Her work is characterised by permanence and decay held together in tension as a way of exploring the transient nature of our existence.
Jacqueline graduated from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, in 2012 including six months on exchange in the Master of Ceramics program at Cardiff School of Art and Design in Wales, UK. After graduating, Jacqueline set up Cascade Artist Studios with three other artists in Lawson where she lives. She moved her studio to the Old Lithgow Pottery in 2017 but returned to the mountains in 2019 and is eagerly awaiting the launch of a new studio space in 2021. Spedding’s artwork has been exhibited in public and private galleries, artist-run initiatives and non-traditional art spaces. In 2015 she exhibited a site-specific installation, Shelter, at the Woodford Academy, a National Trust of Australia property located in the Blue Mountains. Prior to this she won the major acquisitive award at Sculpture at Scenic World for her work, Transcend. Jacqueline has shown in group exhibitions at Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle, USA. Her work featured in a national review of ceramics, Homebrand, at the Casula Powerhouse and she was selected for Hatched, a national review of emerging artists held at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA). Spedding has taught fine art and ceramics as a casual lecturer for Federation University, Sydney College of the Arts and Gymea TAFE. She worked as a senior collections officer for Sydney University Museums digitisation project 2016-2018 and is currently managing editor of a scientific journal. |