Bundanon

Jenny Johnstone is an artist who makes jewellery and objects and is interested in the Australian landscape and all it has to offer – its ever-changing palette, the plants that inhabit it, its stories and interrelationship with humans over time. Her work is focused on arid landscapes and develops from observations made in these zones. Jenny has a background in architecture and trained in jewellery design and manufacture at Design Centre Enmore, Sydney, before undertaking the Associateship at JamFactory.

Jenny Johnston is the recipient of the 2024 JamFactory // Bundanon Residency.

In Residence at Bundanon

If I were to spend two weeks at Bundanon, I would use the time to take a step back from my usual thinking and approach to making in an environment free of my own ‘cache’ of mental pathways, visual stimuli, and materials……returning to the JamFactory studio with more confidence to build ‘play’ into my process and for my time spent at Bundanon to be a memorable interval of creative development. Whilst I wouldn’t aim to produce any finished piece, I would engage in surprising myself by trusting my hand, sensibilities, and strengths to create what they will in their given environment.