Jenny Sages
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Jenny Sages is an Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China, who arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art. She was a freelance writer and illustrator for Vogue Australia until the 1980s before starting full time painting in 1985 at the age of 52.[1]
She has entered the Archibald Prize at least 15 times, and been hung at least 14 times. Her paintings have also been finalists in the Archibald Prize in 2003 with True Stories - Helen Garner, in 2006 with Hossein Valamanesh, in 2009 with Heidi & Sarah-Jane ‘parallel lives’ and in 2011 with My Jack (portrait of artist’s husband, Jack Sages). She won the 2005 Archibald Prize People's Choice award for her portrait of Gloria Petyarre,[2] and she was given a highly commended for the Archibald in 2003 and 2001.
She has also been hung in the Blake Prize and Dobell Prize. She won the Portia Geach Memorial Prize twice. She received a highly commended in the Wynne Prize in 1999 with The Leichhardt. She won the Wynne Prize in 2005.
Jenny was one of five artists featured in the award winning documentary film, Two Thirds Sky - Artists in Desert Country, directed by Sean O'Brien in 2002.
She was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary Loaded Brush.
[edit] References
- ^ Profile from Australian Art Review
- ^ Barclay, Alison (27 Jan 2006) The crowd-pleaser
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