About
Jennifer Long is an Australian artist based in Brisbane, Queensland. She has had 17 solo exhibitions to date and has participated in group and selected exhibitions for 28 years, winning 18 awards. She gives workshops in mixed media and printmaking and is a Gallery Assistant at Impress Printmaker’s Studio & Gallery. Her work is held in private and public collections in Australia and internationally.
Long graduated with a BA at the University of Queensland in 1973 and trained in painting, drawing, ceramics at Queensland College of Art in 1976/77 and later printmaking with Wim de Voss, Carolyn Craig and Gwenn Tasker at the Brisbane Institute of Art from 2010-2016.
She works in a variety of media in response to both inward and outward stimuli. Memories, family history, collected objects and fragments from the landscape are raw materials and motifs for her layered narratives.
She often works intuitively reacting to an idea, word, memory, pattern or texture to evoke a sense of calm or turbulence. Her mediums are oil, watercolour, printmaking, collage, 3D forms in rice paper, wax, wood and aluminium.
“Ingenious with materials and technique, her work is refreshingly fluid and assured…… ‘bringing’ clarity and mastery to line, texture and composition in the service of personal reverie.”
Awards
- 2024 134th Members Exhib RQAS (First)
- 2023 Members Exhib RQAS (Second, Highly Commended)
- 2023 Brisbane Sculpture Festival (Encouragement Award)
- 2022 Different Dimensions RQAS (First)
- 2021 Aspects Art Show Goondiwindi (Highly Commended)
- 2021 Different Dimensions RQAS (Second)
- 2019 Go Forth with Courage, Hope, Peace COSSAG Exhibition Brisbane (First)
- 2017 Different Dimensions RQAS (Commended)
- 2016 Metcalfe Awards (Highly Commended)
- 2015 Kenilworth Art Awards (Highly Commended)
- 2015 Diversity in Art RQAS People’s Choice Award (Third)
- 2014 This Side Up BIA Member’s Exhibition - Member’s Choice Award (First)
- 2013 Restoring the Lost & Broken COSSAG Exhibition Brisbane (Second)
- 2008 Warwick Art Prize Warwick Queensland (Highly Commended)
- 2006 Gwenda Donaldson Art Award New Farm Brisbane (Highly Commended)
- 2002 CQMS Art Award Mackay Queensland (First)
- 2002 Warwick Art Prize Warwick Queensland (Commended)
Collections
Toowoomba Regional Gallery Caloundra Regional Gallery
Mater Health Services, South Brisbane
Iowa State University, Iowa, USA
St. Charles Hospital, Brisbane
UK School of Art Gallery & Museum Collection, Aberystwyth, Wales
Christ Church St. Lucia
Print Council of Australia archive
Castlemaine Press archive
Private Collections – Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, France, Austria
Memberships
Queensland Sculpture Society Flying Arts Alliance
Print Council of Australia
Impress Printmaker’s Studio & Gallery
Visionaries
Brisbane Institute of Art
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