Jill Kempson

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

    • July 2011 Earth, Sky and Water - A journey 2008-2011, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 2010 All in Stillness, Stands, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
    • 2010 Garden Exploration-In and Out of Norfolk, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, UK
    • 2007 Skyscapes, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
    • 2006 Tonalities of Time: The Forgotten Ways, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 2004 Remain in Light, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 2001 Foreign Yet Familiar, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1999 Reflections, Fremantle Arts Centre
    • 1998 Unforseen Journeys, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1995 Looking Back to Look Forward, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1993 Journeys to the Interior, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1991 Threading Light and Land in Tuscany, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1989 Secret Garden of the Interior, Galerie Düsseldorf

Group Exhibitions - Selected

    • 2008 City of Albany Art Prize.A national acquisitive prize exhibition of finalists
    • 2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, for Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 2006 Reading the Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre
    • 2006 30 Years On Galerie Düsseldorf, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 2006 Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA
    • 2006 5 Figurative Artists in the West, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1998 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
    • 1998 21 Years On, Galerie Düsseldorf
    • 1997 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney, NSW
    • 1996 The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
    • 1995 Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Western Australia
    • 1995 Recollection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
    • 1994 Women of the West Royal Automobile Club, Sydney, NSW
    • 1993 Ten Women Artists, Greenhill Galleries
    • 1992 Artists' Choice, Greenhill Galleries
    • 1991 Invitation Art Award, Deloitte Ross Tohmatso, Royal Perth Showgrounds
    • 1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
    • 1987 Six Pack, Praxis Gallery, Fremantle
    • 1986 Opening Exhibition, Black Swan Gallery, Fremantle Arts Foundation
    • 1984 Destination China, Nexus Galleries, Fremantle & Guang Dong Art Academy of Fine Art, China

  • Art writer Nyanda Smith wrote an essay on my work which can be downloaded here
Waychinicup, Australia - artwork

Awards

    • 2010 Art Flight Grant Department for Culture and the Arts WA . Chapman Gallery
    • 2009 Mid-Career Fellowship Grant, Department for Culture and the Arts WA To produce a book on Jill's Art Practice 'Landscape in Perspective, by French curator and historian Patrick Le Chanu, translated Karen Le Chanu
    • 2008  Development Grant, ArtsWa English Garden Painting Project
    • 2006 Peoples Choice Award, Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA, Australia
    • 2004  Research Historical Techniques at the Centre for  Research and Restoration for French Museums, Paris, France, Department for Culture and the Arts WA
    • 2001 Arts WA Development Grant: Research at Pierre Bere's Paris, France
    • 1989 Australia Council: Overseas Studio "Il Paretaio", Tuscany, Italy

Commissions (selected)

    • 1998-2010 Private Commissions International and National
    • 1999 Fremantle Festival Poster, Fremantle City Council
    • 1994 Design for Wollen Scarf, "Print on the Sheep's Back", Textiles for Nomads
    • 1992 Urban Thresholds poster, Transperth Public Art Programme

Collections (selected)

    • Artbank
    • Art Gallery of Western Australia
    • BankWest
    • City of Fremantle
    • Edith Cowan University
    • Education Department of Western Australia
    • Evans & Tate
    • Saint John of God Hospital
    • Joondalup Art Collection
    • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
    • Royal Perth Hospital
    • TAFE
    • The Federal Court of Australia, Perth
    • The University of Western Australia
    • Murdoch University
    • Wesfarmers
    • Matt and Jane Colman's Private collection, England
    • William Earl of Huntingdon's Private collection, England
    • Julie Holyoke, Private collection Florence, Italy

Bibliography (selected)

    • 2010 Canberra City News. Issue October 28 - November 3 by Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak ‘Kempson’s Light Touch’
    • 2010 Jill Kempson's Oeuvre: Landscape in Perspective, book by Patrick & Karen Le Chanu
    • 2010 The Sunday Telegraph, United Kingdom, Stella,This Weeks Must Do and See, pg.10
    • 2010 The West Australian, Today, Visual Arts, Stephen Bevis, All for the Love of  Landscape pg.10.
    • 2007 Ric Spence, The West Australian, Today, Visual Arts, Two Very Different Country Landscapes Nov.30 Pg.7
    • 2006 Mark Stewart, On Campus, Murdoch University, Vol 21 No 2 Apr p.7
    • Nyanda Smith, ‘Master Technique’, Insite 8 Autumn Edition p.47
    • Melbourne Art Fair Catalogue, p. 50 for Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
    • 2004 Simon Blond, Kempson Opens Book of Enlightenment, The West Australian, Jun 5 2004, p.10-11
    • 1995 Cook Robert, Romancing Place, Art and Australia, Dec 1995
    • 1994 FAR Vol.9 No.2, Apr/May 1994, p.17
    • Britton Stephanie, ‘Art and the Feminist Project’, Artlink Vol.14 No. 1 Autumn 1994, p.35-86
    • 1991 Harpley Melissa, Natural and Unnatural Landscape, W.A. Italy, Art Link Vol.11 No.3 Spring 1991, p.63-64
    • Snell Ted, Affinity Reflects Pilgrims Progress, The Weekend Australian, 23 May 91
    • Bromfield David, Gods and Poetry in Italian Memories, The West Australian 25 May 1991, p.7
    • Snell Ted, The Painted Image, Twenty Contemporary WA Painters, Western Australian Art No.1 1991, p.52-55