Sunday, 17 July 2011

Australian Artist Jenni McMillan Exhibits at La Chataigneraie

Jeni McMillan is an artist who has sprung from the wilds of Australia to settle in France. Her work is extremely imaginative and varied. From sculptural ceramics to photography, digital montage and oils on canvas.  She is currently exhibiting her oils on canvas at La Chataigneraie, the art, food and music venue on the Aveyron river at Largarde Viaur.

 Jeni has created sensual female forms in ceramic as well as sculptural anthropomorphic figures inspired by her life in the wild forests of Eastern Australia. Her career has involved establishing a professional ceramics studio where she created sculptural works for exhibition such as David Jones Australia National Travelling Exhibition, Australia Choice, Berrima Galleries, Southlands Gallery, Beaver Galleries, Articles Art Gallery, Sydney.

She co-created digital images showcased in international magazines such as Design Graphics and subsequently made film-clips and documentaries drawing on both the harmony of nature and the fragility of ecosystems in conflict with human exploitation screened at Screenworks and Wild Spaces Film Festival Sydney, and Beacon Film Festival in New York

 Jeni’s oils on canvas have been exhibited in Sydney, Canberra, regional Australia and recently in the Dordogne and the Aveyron in France.
She is currently preparing a body of contempory digital work based on self portraiture titled "Self and other Beings"and on a photographic project documenting a rural life in France which is rapidly disappearing from generational change.