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Click to expand view   Putting Money Where Your Mouse Is
1967
Polychromme, wood, perspex
58 x 50.5 x 20cm
     
Click to expand view   Still Life With Mao 1980
200 x 110 x 60cm
Polychrome wood, canvas, embrodery
     
Click to expand view   Skull, Barcelona
2002
52 x 60cm
     
Click to expand view   Fish, Barcelona
2002
52 x 60cm
     
Click to expand view  

Hat, Barcelona
2002
52 x 60cm

     
Click to expand view   Dog in Hat
2002
polychrome wood
91 x 85 x 30cm
     
Click to expand view   Chinese Takeaway 1999
crayon on paper
25 x 36cm (sight)
     
Click to expand view   Lady with red Flowers
1999
wool fibre
Woven by Vict Tapestry Workshop
25.5 x 18.5cm
     
Click to expand view   Dingo
2000
wool & metalic thread
woven by Vict Tapestry Workshop
20 x 11.5cm
     
Click to expand view   Fireplace for Santa
2002
polychrome wood
118 x 182.5 x 13.5cm
     
Click to expand view   Egyptian Figure
1993
crayon on paper
39 x 25cm (sight)
     
Click to expand view   Barcelona Love Poem
2002
crayon on paper
39 x 29cm (sight)
     
Click to expand view   Dog
1993
crayon on paper
22.5 x 33cm (sight)
     
Click to expand view   Egyptian Weapons
1993
crayon on paper
32 x 19cm (sight)
     
Click to expand view   Goat
1993
crayon on paper
24.5 x 32cm (sight)
     
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Click to expand view   12 Ways to Skin a Cat
2000 (Pair)
pastel on paper
37 x 50cm each
     
Click to expand view   12 Ways to Skin a Cat
2000
oil on canvas
12 pieces
25 x 20cm each
     
Click to expand view   Homage to the Good Art
1975
metal, polychrome wood, canvas
221 x 290 x 38cm
     
Click to expand view   Tiger Face Hat
2000
oil on canvas
3 pieces
38.5 x 38.5cm each
     
Click to expand view   Culture
1998
3 piece
polychrome wood, wood
230 x 120 x 60cm
 
 
bob jenyns
 
born

1944 Melborne
lives and works in Hobart

 
studies and travel
 
 

lecturer Sculpture, University of Tasmania , School of Art

1972 ACTT Hawthorn Technical Teacher's College
1961-64 Caulfield Institute of Technology
 
solo exhibitions
 
2006

Sculpture , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Looking Forward, Looking Back, Colville Street Art Gallery , Hobart

2004 Phantasmagoria , Watters Gallery, Sydney
2002

More Art From the Traveller, Watters Gallery, Sydney

2000 The Art Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1998

The Paris Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney
1996 Objects d'Art , Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1995 The Game Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney
1993

La Banque de L'image, recent sculpture & drawings , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1992

The Art of the Traveller, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

1991

The Tasmania Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney & Despard Gallery, Hobart

1988 The Prickle Show , Lennox St Gallery, Melb
1987 A Show of Events , Watters Gallery, Sydney
1984 The Monument Show , Powell St Gallery, Melb
1980 The China Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney
1977

My Favourite Show , Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney

1975

The Bird Show , Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
The Jenyns Show , with Lorraine Jenyns, Watters Gallery, Sydney & Victorian Regional Galleries

1974

The Plane Show , Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Tit and Toe Show , Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

 
selected group exhibitions
 
2007 Art Melbourne 07 Colville Gallery, Melbourne
2006 2 Dog Night, Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart
2006 Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award
2005

2004 Revisited , Watters Gallery, Sydney

2003 Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney
2002

3D and on the Wall , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Robert Jenyns: Mixed Media – Xing Jun Qin Paintings , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Seventh Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne

2001

Archival Oils Exhibition, 16 th Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1999 Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney
1997

Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne

1996

Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne

1995

Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Full of ..CONTENT , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Images From Myths & Legends, Watters Gallery, Sydney
Works from the Stock Room, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1994

Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne

1993

Works From the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Death, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1992

Contemporary Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Max Watters' Collection , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne
Looking Through , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1991

Selections from the Gifts of Patrick White, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Off the Wall, In the Air, A Seventies Selection, Monash University & Australian Centre for Contemporary Art , Victoria
Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1990

Sculpture Triennial , Melbourne
The Summer Show , Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
The Staff Show , Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

Second Contemporary Art Fair, 40 Artists-40 Works , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1989

Portrait of a Gallery , Watters 25 th Anniversary Exhibition touring 8 regional centres until 1991
Works from the Collection: New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Art and Nature , Ballarat Fine Art Gallery , ICI Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria and touring
Australianarama , Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
Houses , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Summer Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1988

Max Watters' Collection, Muswellbrrok Art Gallery, NSW
A Place for Art , Centre for the Arts, Hobart
Landfall , Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
First Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings , Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1987

Gravity's Angels, touring exhibition
Selected Works, Watters Gallery, Sydney

1986-87

Eye Spy Two – Faces and Figures , Australian National Gallery, Canberra
The October Show , Launceston

1986

Selected Sculpture Since 1960, 312 Lennox Street, Melbourne
Sam Neal's Choice , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Hugh Williamson Prize , Ballarat Fine

1985

Pertaining to the School of Cool , Canberra
Sculptural Survey 1975-1985
Sculpture on Videotape , South Australian School of Art , Adelaide
Graven Images , Art Gallery of Western Australia
Singular and Plural (A Look at Australian Sculpture 1975-85) South Australia School Art

1984-85

A Bird's Eye View , The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery , NSW
Still Life and the Interior , Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Acquisitions and Alternatives , Monash University, Melbourne

1984

Australian Sculpture Now, 2 nd Australian Sculptural
Biennale , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Acquisitions and Alternative – Sculpture , Monash University Gallery , Victoria
Still Life , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1983

Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Bendigo Fine Art Gallery , Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
Sculpture , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1982

Preston to Phillip – A Survey of 10 Years of Art
Education , Phillip Institute of Technology, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Potter Foundation Invitation , National Gallery Victoria
Powell Street ‘Monuments' , National Gallery Victoria

1981

Australian Perspecta 1981, Art Gallery New South Wales
Group Exhibition , Watters Gallery, Sydney

1980

The Apparel Show , Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
Works by Lecturers from the Tasmanian School of Art, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery , Hobart
Recent Tasmanian Sculpture and Three Dimensional Art , Tasmanian School of Art Gallery and Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania , Hobart, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery , Launceston
Capital Permanent Award , Geelong Art Gallery

1979

The Cake Show , Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
Still Life Still Lives , The Glenfiddich Exhibition touring New South Wales , Queensland and Victoria

1978

Seventh Mildura Sculptural Triennial, Mildura , Victoria
Group Show , Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1977

Sir William Angliss Memorial Art Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria
Acquisitions 1976 & 1977 , Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
From the Funk Tradition , Watters Gallery, Sydney
Watters at Pinacotheca , Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne
Aspects of Love , Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1976

Artists' Artists , National Gallery of Victoria
Some Recent Art from the Ballarat Region , Ballarat Fine Art Gallery , Ballarat
Ocker Funk , Realitites Gallery, Melbourne
Twenty Australian , Western Australian Institute Technology
Group Show , Abraxas Gallery, Canberra

1975

Australia '75, Canberra
Artists' Artists, National Gallery of Victoria
Mildura Sculptural Triennial, Mildura , Victoria
The Grid Show , Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University
Survival Kits, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University

1974

Ten Years , Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Witworks , City of Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria

1973

Biennale of Sydney , Opera House, Sydney
Mildura Sculptural Triennale, Mildura , Victoria

1972 George Crouch Prize , Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1970

Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Sculptural Award, Victorian Arts Society, Melbourne
Flotta Lauro Prize, Sydney

 
awards
 
1982-83

Visual Arts Standard Grant

1980

Capital Permanent Award

1978 Visual Arts Board Special Purpose Grant
1976

Alice Springs Purchase Prize

1974

Visual Arts Board Grant

 
commissions
 
1989

Transporting Art, Melbourne
Illawara Primary School , Hobart

1988

Allenvale College , Launceston

1976

Collingwood Education Centre, Melbourne

 
exhibitions curated
 
2004

Bill Yaxley Survey Exhibion, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

2002

Naturally , Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart

1990-91

Living in the 70's Photographs by Carol Jerrems, Co-curated with Helen Ennis, Curator Photography, Australian National Gallery; Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, touring Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Shepparton Art Gallery & Waverley Gallery Melbourne

1990

Art From Elsewhere (2 ) Artists from Niagra Gallery, Melbourne, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania

1989

Art From Elsewhere (1) Artists From Lennox St Gallery, Melbourne, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania

1988-89

Namelessness A play and installation exhibition by Peter Cripps, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1986

Pictures for Papers Michael Leunig Drawings, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania

 
collections
 

National Gallery of Australia , Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Vistoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
Visual Arts Board Collection
Alice Springs Art Foundation
Kelvin Grove Teacher's College, Brisbane
Geelong Art Gallery
University of Tasmania
Deakin University , Geelong
Family Court Collection, Canberra
New England Regional Art Museum
ICI Collection, Melbourne

 
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