'Burning off' by Jenny Sages
1985-pres
- Full-time painting
1955-84
- Freelance as an illustrator of: books, fashion, writing and
illustrating travel articles for Vogue Australia and other magazines
1956/57
- John Olsen / Mary White School, Sydney
1951/54
- Graduate - Franklin School of Art, New York
1950/51 - East Sydney Technical College
The
Quiet Achiever
At the
age of 52, in 1985, Jenny Sages turned to fulltime art making. For the
preceding 30 years she had worked in commercial art as a freelance writer
and illustrator, but the conversion to serious art was both sudden and
total. She took part in an outback workshop with Clifton Pugh and while
travelling in the Bungles and experiencing the overwhelming beauty of the
place while painting her gouaches, she realised there could be no turning
back. She describes her conversion as being "overnight" and
subsequently there has been a string of art awards, including this year's
Wynne Prize and a prestigious acquisition by the National Portrait
Gallery.
Excerpt
taken from Australian
Art Review, retrieved September 2008.
2005
King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2003
'The daily act of living /
just doing it' King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
2001
'Around here out there' King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney and
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2000
'Names and Being' Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1999
'Substrata' King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
1997
'Remember' Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1996
King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
1995
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1994
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1991
Blaxland
Gallery, Sydney
1990
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
1988
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
2007
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
2006
Kedumba Drawing Award NSW
Ways Exhibition, [fundraiser] Bondi, Sydney
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
king street gallery at Doggett St Studios, Brisbane
last show of the year, king street gallery on burton
2005
Archibald Exhibition AGNSW and touring
Wynne Prize ANSW and touring
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney
2004
King Street Gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne
2003
The Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery Sydney, NSW
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery on New South Wales
The Fleurieu Prize for Landscape, S.A.
2002
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales (travelling to
regional centres and state galleries throughout Australia)
The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Two Thirds Sky- artists in desert country, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
& Arts Centre, NSW
2001
A Century of Collecting Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
last show of the year king street gallery on Burton
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
monochromatic king street gallery on Burton
views king street gallery on Burton
2000
Women and the landscape, King Street Gallery
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Wentworth Falls, NSW
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Victorian Arts Centre Trust, Melbourne
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize, Sydney
1999
Customs House Exhibition with Judy Cassab
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Moree Plains Gallery, NSW
Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Prize pictures- paintings previously selected for major prize exhibitions,
king street gallery on burton
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
Victorian Art Centre Trust
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Packsaddle Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum
1998
1st Acquisition of the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait
Gallery, Canberra, AC
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Wollongong City Art Gallery
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Tattersalls Art Prize, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Redlands Westpac Invitational Art Prize-
Packsaddle Exhibition, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
The Alice Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation, NT
Gallery artists, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Victorian Art Centre Trust
1997
Muswellbrook Regional Gallery
Tamworth City Gallery
Goulburn Regional Gallery
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Landmarks-Contemporary Visions of the Australian Landscape, Campbelltown
Bicentennial City Art Gallery, NSW
Amnesty International, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Gallery artists, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Tattersalls Art Prize
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
1996
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, SH Ervin, Sydney
Last show of the year, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Tattersalls Art Prize
Gallery artists, king street gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
1995
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, SH Ervin
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
The Alice Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation
Tattersalls Art Prize
Wollongong City Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
All in the Family, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
St. Peters Cathedral, Adelaide
1994
All in the Family, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
St. Peters Cathedral, Adelaide
Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, SH Ervin
The Dobell Prize for Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
The Blake Prize for Religious Art, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
Tattersalls Art Prize
New England Regional Art Museum
1993
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, SH Ervin
The Blake Prize for Religious Art, Blaxland Gallery
Tattersalls Art Prize
New England Regional Art Museum
1992
Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
Newcastle Regional Gallery
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, SH Ervin
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
Tattersalls Art Prize
1991
Blake Prize, Blaxland Gallery
Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1990
1st Olsen Drawing Prize, Bathurst Regional Gallery
Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW
1989
Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize
2006
- King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney Kedumba Drawing Award NSW
2005
- Wynne prize Art Gallery NSW
2003
- Archibald Prize, Exhibition, highly commended, Art Gallery of New
South Wales
2001 - Archibald
Prize, Exhibition, highly commended, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1999
- Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1995
- Archibald Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales and
Campbelltown Purchase Prize, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
1994
- Work on paper, Warringah Art Prize, NSW; Highly Commended-Tattersalls
Art Prize, Qld; Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, NSW and The Portia Geach
Memorial Award
1992
- The Portia Geach Memorial Award and Tattersalls Art Prize, highly
commended
1991 - Principal
Acquisition-Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Art Bank, Australia
Avillion Hotels
Bank of America
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Campbelltown Bicentennial City Art Gallery
Coles Myer, Australia
Department of Transport, Canberra
IBM, Australia
Dresdner Australia Limited
Gadens Ridgeway Collection
KPMG
Labour Council of New South Wales
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
New South Wales State Library
Smorgon Collection, Australia
NIDA, Sydney
Mosman Council, Sydney
National Library of Australia, Canberra
Macquarie Bank Collection
The McDonalds Australia Collection
Trust Company of Australia
University of New England, NSW
Warringah Council, NSW
Colonial First State Property Ltd