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.”
High Country Vessel , wheel thrown porcelain, cobalt and underglaze pencil. detail
Wendy Jagger creates fine art paintings, master-crafted porcelain vessels, tableware and bespoke porcelain lighting, which is strongly influenced by Australia’s diverse landscapes and flora. Jagger revels in painting amidst the landscape with all its logistical challenges and pieces created on location are further developed in a range of painting media, stoneware clay and translucent porcelain.
Her work is held in public and private collections around Australia and internationally. She has been selected for numerous art awards commissions, including ministerial and corporate gifts.
Surrounded by the beautiful alpine environment of Victoria’s North East, Wendy Jagger Studio looks directly to Mt Buller, and here she successfully runs classes and workshops in painting and ceramics.
Come inside the studio.
It all begins with an idea. A dream. A memory. A mood. An impression.
This is where I turn those thoughts, dreams, ideas and musings into visual reality. Sometimes I will draw, or paint or wedge some clay and throw it on the wheel into an elegant porcelain vessel. Come with me, into my world…
Come and peek inside my studio in the High Country
ARTISTIC C.V.
EDUCATION:
1987 Bachelor of Education (Art & Crafts) Melbourne College of Advanced Education
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts – Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
AWARDS / GRANTS:
2020 Finalist - online – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award – Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2019 Grant Recipient – Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant
2019 Artist Residency – BigCi – Bilpin, NSW
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
2009 Finalist - Ceramics Victoria 40th Anniversary National Award – Manningham City Gallery
2009 Arts Victoria Grant – Artists-In-Schools Program at Mansfield Primary School
2009 Finalist – Victorian Ceramics Award, Manningham City Gallery (Acquired as foundation piece for 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
EXHIBITIONS:
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
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)
2008-18 Finalist – in numerous prestigious art and ceramic prizes. See above
2017 Camberwell Art Show - painting
2010 State of Design Festival – Design:Made:Trade, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton
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)
· 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 2009