Jennifer Allnutt is a contemporary figurative artist, based in Melbourne, Australia.
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On a recent residency with Q Bank Gallery, Jennifer collected rocks and painted eyes on these rocks. These eye painted rocks were returned back to landscape to be found of lost forever.
Jennifer Allnutt, a young artist, is from Adelaide, but now based in Melbourne. She is a graduate of Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honors), from the University of South Australia.
It was 2007 when she first discovered her love for oil painting and since then she has not been able to put her paintbrush down.
Her skills are diversified, as her work deals with transformation, symbolism, identity and the unconscious.
Jennifer has attended many exhibitions, to name few, including The SASA Gallery, Fontanelle Gallery, and Carclew Espionage Gallery. She also participated in the Art SA Curatorial Program in 2011 and 2012.
Her amazing talent made her win 2012 Youthscape, at the Royal South Australian Society for Arts. She has also completed his Master of Teaching, and she hopes to teach the visual arts, Her aim is to transfer her mind-blowing skills and talent to her students.
On a recent residency with Q Bank Gallery in Queenstown, Tasmania, she worked on a different idea. She collected rocks, transformed them into painted eyes, and returned them to the landscape to be found or lost forever.
Queenstown is rich in history as far as mining is concerned. As there you can found many unusual rocks. The historical place of Queenstown attracted Jennifer to work on the new concept of transforming rocks into painted eyes.
She told, “I am fascinated by those in between, grey areas, intangibles, and ambiguities and then fusing these into the physicality and language of paint.
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Jennifer constructs images based on illusion and reality. Her work often finds a way to visually express the feelings and desires that we often repress.
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She expresses herself as “I felt like art was pure magic as a child and I still feel that way plucking something intangible from your mind and making it real”