My Story
“I have always recorded the environment around me and how it makes me feel. I am particularly drawn to dramatic, rocky landscapes and love the immediacy of plein air painting, capturing the light, shapes and colours of what I see before me.”
ARTISTIC C.V.
AWARDS / GRANTS:
2023 Winner – Friday Foundation Prize, Best local artist – Mansfield & District Hospital Auxiliary Art Show
2019 Grant Recipient – Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant
2019 Artist Residency – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW
2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan
2009 Arts Victoria Grant – Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School
2008 Winner - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – Mansfield Shire (judges Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2023 1-30 September - The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove, Victoria
2023 14-25 June - High Country - RED Gallery, North Fitzroy, Victoria
2019 Escarpment – The Produce Store, Victoria.
2019 Terrain – The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove, Victoria.
2018 Mallacoota Impressions – Mallacoota Art Space, Victoria
2017 ‘Elevation’ – Without Pier Gallery, Cheltenham
2015 SNOWLINE – Alpine Central, Mt Buller, August
2011 ‘New Work’ - Geelong Gallery – foyer
2008 ‘Wildflower’ - Craft Victoria, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2007-9 Mt Buller – concurrently with Mt Buller Art Prize
2006 ‘Elemental Exposure’ Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento
Juried Exhibitions (selection)
2023 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2023 Finalist – Harden Landscape Prize, Harden NSW
2023 SAM Open: ‘Home’, Shepparton Art Museum, VIC
2022 Finalist – Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra NSW
2022 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD, both exhibition and salon
2022 Finalist – Omnia Art Prize, St Kevin’s College Toorak VIC
2022 Finalist - Lethbridge Landscape Prize - online salon, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2022 Finalist – 3 Faces Portrait Prize, Arts Council Mansfield, Mansfield VIC
2021 Finalist - Lethbridge 20000 Art Award – online Salon – Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2021 Finalist - 3 Faces Portrait Exhibition - Arts Council Mansfield, VIC
2021 Finalist - Klytie Pate Ceramics Award - National - Mansfield, VIC
2020 Finalist - online – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award – Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2018 Finalist – 45th Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, New South Wales
2018 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Prize, Mansfield Victoria
2017 Finalist – Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2017 Finalist – Wyndham Art Prize, Werribee Victoria
2017 Finalist – Klytie Pate Ceramics Prize, Mansfield Victoria
2016 Finalist – The Alice Prize for Contemporary Art, Alice Springs
2016 Finalist – Handpicked Handmade, Gallery Klei, Sydney
2015 Finalist – Clunes National Ceramic Award, Clunes Victoria
2015 Finalist x2 – Victorian Craft Excellence Award, Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2015 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2013 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2011 Honourable Mention – Finalist - 9th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan
2011 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery
2010 State of Design Festival – Design:Made:Trade, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
2009 Finalist - Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary National Award – Manningham City Gallery
2009 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery (Acquired as a foundation piece for the Manningham Collection)
2008 Winner - 2008 Mt Buller Art Prize – Mansfield Shire (judges Patrick McCaughey, Robert Nelson & Peter Rancie)
2007 Finalist – Mt Buller Art Prize – painting. Mt Buller
2007 Fringe Furniture – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Museum
2005 ‘On The Table’ - Planet Furniture, Sydney
2004 ‘Composed’ – Gasworks St Kilda
Invitational Exhibitions (selection)
2019 Small Works – Beaver Galleries, Deakin, ACT
2018 Ceramica – Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte, Victoria
2018 Canterbury Art Show, Canterbury Victoria
2017 Summer Smalls – Southern Buoy, Mornington
2017 ‘Coolart’ – Summer Exhibition, Coolart Homestead, Balnarring. Without Pier Gallery
2016 Works on Paper – Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Contemporary Porcelain 2 – 10 Australian Masters – Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney
2016 Harvest – Mansfield Art Gallery, Mansfield
2010 ‘Melting Pot ‘– a French / Australian exhibition, Manningham Gallery
2009 ‘Delicate Matters’ - Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne
2008 ‘In The Making’ Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2007 ‘And There Was Light’ - Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong NSW
2006 ‘Surface Connections’ – Manningham City Gallery, Victoria
2006 ‘High Tea – the beauty of beakers’ Collect Gallery, Sydney
2004 9x5½ Exhibition – Antipodes Bookshop Gallery, Sorrento
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 ‘Our Backyard’ – Landscape paintings, The Mansfield Produce Store in April 2013
2011 ‘Beyond The Studio Door’ - Life Drawing exhibition, Mansfield VIC
2010 Botanica – Spring Arts, Mansfield VIC
2005 [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne - featured Ceramic artist
2003 ‘Clarity’ Skepsi On Swanston - Melbourne
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:
· Mansfield Shire Gift to the Governor General, Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove, 2015
· Mansfield Shire – Botanical Gardens – ‘Weather’s Coming’ sculpture – Wendy & David Jagger, 2013
· National Gallery of Victoria – 150th Anniversary commemorative vessels for NGV shop, 2011
· Bendigo Art Gallery – Eucalyptus Bell, purchased 2009
· Manningham City Council – Grevillea Lace, purchased 2009
· Mt Buller RMB – Regeneration, oil on canvas
· Mazda Australia – 25 Corporate gifts for Foundation members, 2005
· Holmesglen Institute of TAFE – collection, purchased 2004
· Ministerial Gifts – from State and Federal Governments to visiting dignitaries
PUBLICATIONS: (Selection)
Mercedes Me Magazine, March 17 2023
North East Living Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2020, pp30-33
The Age - Epicure
‘Ceramics Today’ – Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Books
Weekly Times – 29 June 2011
North By North East- May 2011
‘Handmade In Melbourne 2009’, (work featured on front cover)
House & Garden, May
EDUCATION:
1987 Bachelor of Education (Art & Crafts) Melbourne College of Advanced Education
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts – Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
“Out There” - oil on canvas - Finalist 2022 Calleen Art Award
Come inside the studio.
It all begins with an idea. A dream. A memory. A mood. An impression.
'Low Tide Betka' oil on board, 30 x 40 cm. FINALIST - Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Prize (SOLD)
Wendy Jagger - Scape series (all vessels are SOLD)
'Blue Range Poplars' oil on board, 30 x 40 cm Salon des Réfusés - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Prize. Please Inquire
'Hills of Sofala' oil on board, framed. 33 x 43 cm.
Wendy Jagger - High Country Autumn, 2020 Commission piece - SOLD
Wendy Jagger - Kangaroo Paw - etched porcelain. SOLD
'Breathing Space' oil on canvas, 76x76 cm ONLINE FINALIST - Lethbridge Landscape Prize. Please inquire.
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Wendy is a qualified art and craft teacher, with a B.Ed and dip Arts.
'Delatite Pendant Lights' - porcelain, etched - please inquire.
Wendy Jagger - Decor & Design show 2018