Jenny Kyng • visual artist

Welcome

Jenny Kyng is a visual artist who paints, draws, etches, lives and works in the Inner West area of Sydney, Australia. Jenny works in a wide range of mediums and genres. Her themes are diverse and not limited by Australian or Sydney horizons. She values spontaneity based on art-making traditions. This site lets Jenny's art speak for itself.

Recent News

Works on paper now available at woodpapersilk!

A number of Jenny's etchings are now for sale at Petersham's woodpapersilk. So if you can't wait for her next exhibition, head over to this beautiful shopfront Thursday through Saturday at 348 Stanmore Road, Petersham; t: (02) 9564 6515.

Highly commended

Portrait of Hank

November 2008: Jenny's Portrait of Hank (pastel and charcoal on Ingres paper) won a 'Highly Commended' citation for the Morag McMillan Drawing Award at the annual Royal Art Society Art School Exhibition, Sydney.

Self-portrait: finalist in 2008 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Portia Geach 2008 opening: Jenny with fellow finalist Kerry Blake (middle) and Kerry's sitter Lillian (left).

Self-portrait (oil on panel), was hung in the 2008 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the 'most prestigious portrait prize for female artists' in Australia. The exhibition ran from 3 October to 9 November 2008 at the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Watson Road (enter from Argyle Street), Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney. The winner, announced on 2 October, was Jude Rae's Self-portrait 2008 (The year my husband left).

June 2008 solo show: New paintings, drawings, prints

Sorrow

Some 50 people joined Jenny for the 3 June 2008 opening of her latest solo exhibition at the Buzzzbar Cafe, Newtown. Five works were purchased at the opening, including 1 oil painting, 1 watercolour and 3 etchings. Five more works were also sold before the show closed on 22 June.

• Click here to view the pdf invitation.

'Highly Commended' award (November 2007)

Portrait of a writer won a 'Highly Commended' citation at the Royal Art Society's 2007 Art School Exhibition. Jenny also exhibited two life drawings, including Alice (pastel).

Xavier Art Space solo exhibition ends

Jenny met 25 guests on 12 September 2006 at Xavier Art Space, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, as part of On the Wall: Diverse works on paper, her 5-week solo exhibition, which ran from 5 September to 12 October 2006. ...

'Portrait of the artist as a nurse'

Interview in the Lamp, vol. 62, no. 10, November 2005. ...

• Read Lamp interview (1mb pdf)

Solo exhibition

Life - Still Life, Jenny's first solo exhibition, held 26 May - 5 June 2005 at Stanmore Galleries, went well. With 60 people at opening night, 8 works were purchased during the show, including 1 oil, 4 watercolours and 3 etchings. ...

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