January 2010
There is a French Art Historian /Curator Patrick le Chanu writing a book on my work. I have recently received a Mid Career Fellowship from the Department for Culture and the Arts, which will enable the book to be published in time for the show at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in May this year in London.
In June 2008 I began the research for The Garden Series
With the kind generosity of Michelle Lamont of Norwich, I was able to visit 5 significant private gardens in Norfolk and make preliminary sketches and paintings in a studio space in the Lamont's home in Norwich. I travelled to England without really knowing what I was going to see and experience and I was almost overwhelmed by the unique beauty of these gardens.
At the present I am painting each day, gradually building up a body of works that will be exhibited at The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in central London in May 2010.
This project was funded by the Western Australian Department for Culture and the Arts.
And recently Austrade have awarded me an EMDG grant to help with this project.
Jill Kempson
Over the last twenty-five years, Jill Kempson has forged a practice that features a dialogue across time, as well as across continents. Her work emerges as a meditation upon place taking in different locations, a refining of simple landscape elements – ground, sky, water and vegetation.
Nyanda Smith