CV

Jenny Potts Barr 				
Born Canberra, Australia 1971					
Works and lives in Western Australia - on unceeded Wadandi Boodja.			

Brief Bio.
Born in 1971 in Canberra to two sailors; a Convict descendent and a 10 pound Scottish Pom. She lived everywhere the Navy sent her parents. She has studied History in many forms, worked for museums and finished her studies with a Painting Major and Fine Arts Degree at the National Art School in Sydney. After which she took a break to raise a family start a company and settle in a regional area. Since 2015 she has focused on rebuilding her multidisciplinary practice...slowly.

Solo Exhibitions.
2022 ‘Ever Evers: of “other loves and landscapes” The visual poetry and contemporary drawing practice of Jenny Potts Barr’. Featuring the poetry of Miriam Wei Wei Lo. Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA.

2020 ‘This Hopeful Shack, a series of 25 large scale drawings’.  3 March-29th May, HEART Gallery, Margaret River.

2018 ‘Happy Place’  small paintings and cartoons, Margaret River Artisan Store, SW WA.

2015 ’27 Days’ paintings, The Cocoon, Margaret River Library , SW WA.

Selected Group Exhibitions.
2023 Fremantle Print Award Finalist, ‘Seaweed Heart’, giclee print.
2021 City of Busselton Art Award ‘The civility of French earl grey at 4pm was escaping’, gicleee print, Juried Selection, Busselton WA.	
2020 South West Times Show 2020, ‘excerpt from This Hopeful Shack series’ giclee prints, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA.
2000 Graduate Show, National Art School, Sydney NSW.
2000 ‘Animal Mineral Vegetable’, Balmain WatchHouse, Balmain NSW.
2000 ‘On the Tiles’ , Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney NSW.
1999 Glebe Art Prize ‘An Open Swimmer’ oil on board- Highly Commended,Sydney NSW.

Group Exhibitions.
2023 Margaret River Readers Writers Festival Art Exhibition, Margaret River. 
2020 City of Melville Art Award, Melville, WA.
2017 ANL Mission to Seafarers Maritime Art Prize -’The Consequences of Waves’ ink and pen on paper, Melbourne VIC. Peoples Choice Finalist. 
2017 Margaret River Readers Writers Festival Art Exhibition ‘1936 Berlin’ oil on board- Highly Commended.
Independent School Art Auction, Margaret River, WA.


Publications
- ‘Who Comes Calling?’ Poetry Anthology by Miriam Wei Wei Lo, 2024 2nd Ed. Published by Wa Poets Inc. 2024.
- Rabbit Journal of Non Fiction Poetry, Vol #Collaborations ‘Miriam Wei Wei Lo and Jenny Potts Barr Ekphrasis Collab’ 2023. 
- 'On the way to an exhibition' by Jenny Potts Barr, Regional Arts WA Stories, March 2022.
-South West Times 2020, Exhibition Catalogue, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery 
-A Closer look at this Hopeful Shack by Jenny Barr, Regional Arts WA, February 2020.
- Tarhairedjack a.k.a Jenny Barr, Interview, Local Art Paper, October 2019.
-‘An Open Swimmer’ by Jenny Barr,  ABC Open, 2015.
- Interview with Adam Cullen, Sydney Morning Herald 2000.
-‘On the tiles’ Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald 2000.

Collaborations
1)Ekphrasis Collaborations Exhibitions 
-‘Ever Evers: of “other loves and landscapes” featuring the poetry of Miriam Wei Wei Lo.  Bunbury Regional Art Gallery April -June 2022.
-Who Comes Calling? Poem by Miriam Wei Wei Lo, design and drawing by Jenny Potts Barr. Commissioned poem for solo exhibition March 2020.

2)Writing Collaboration 
-Local Art Paper- 2017 +  A curated arts website by Daniela Palitos and Jenny Potts Barr.
www.localartpaper.com

Collections
Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
Private collections Australia and Internationally.

@tarhairedjack
www.jennypottsbarr.com