Bio
My name is Jennifer Trezise. I was born, live and work in Australia. I am an artist with a studio in Winmalee, NSW.
I was a graduate of the National Art School, Sydney, NSW from 1969-1972. I was a Visual Arts Teacher and Head Teacher in the NSW Department of Education and Training from 1973-2002. I was employed by both the NSW Department of Education and Training & the NSW Arts Unit as the Regional Arts Coordinator for Western Sydney, NSW, Australia from 2002 -2012. In this role I produced various, multi-arts events for students from 5 to 18 years of age at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, the Sydney Town Hall, the Q Theatre, the Castle Hill Entertainment Centre, the Joan Sutherland Centre and the Ningbo Opera House, China. I had a successful career in education and I loved my work.
I am now a full time artist. My art practice and studio work often takes me to Europe, where I twice completed two international residencies; Venice in 2003 and Vaasa in 2008. I also completed two art residencies in Australia; at Riversdale in 2005 and Bundanon in 2007.
I am driven to passionately explore the materials of my studio, from delicate papers, pencils, inks and gouache over heavily textured surfaces, often in conjunction with text, in the form of my original poetry.
My poetry is multi-faceted. It speaks about my life, my awakening understanding of life itself, my father, my passion for the arts, the joy of the everyday and the people around me.
At times I am a voyeur, like all artists, a disconnected viewer of strangers, particularly those people in trains or cafés. I reflect on voices in the dark, dreams and nightmares, existentialism and the human condition.
My decision to incorporate some of my artworks with my poetry is quite recent because I use a different creative process, a separate, impulsive, abstract part of my psyche to write. My artworks are solid, but my poetry is liquid.
I am a woman, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an artist, a teacher and a poet.
I am a survivor.
Jennifer Trezise ... Artist & Poet 