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Zoë Jay Veness is an artist / designer working in the field of contemporary jewellery. For a number of years she has been developing a unique process that employs paper as the primary material to challenge preconceived notions of preciousness and wealth. Her intricate jewellery forms are the result of elaborate measuring systems and complex folding methods. Currently, she is interested in notions of ambiguity as strategies of engagement in jewellery art practice.

Zoë has been awarded numerous grants and in 2006, with the support of funding from Australia Council's Visual Arts Board, was artist in residence at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas including the prestigious Talente in Munich in 2002. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia and Griffith Regional Art Gallery.   

 

GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2011 Australian Postgraduate Award

2011 COFA Top Up Scholarship

2010 Artist in Residence, Arthur Boyd Bundanon, Nowra NSW Australia

2006 Artist in Residence, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland UK

2006 Skills & Development Grant, Australia Council Visual Arts Board

2005 Craft-in-Site Grants, Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design

2004 Winner, National Contemporary Jewellery Award for non-precious jewellery,

Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia

2003 Postgraduate Research Grant, COFA UNSW

2002 Skills & Development Grant, Australia Council Visual Arts Board

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 the infinite fold, JamFactory Contemporary Craft & Design, Adelaide Australia

2008 transformations, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland New Zealand

2007 mathematical beauty, Object Galleries Project Space, Sydney Australia

2006 in between grey, e.g.etal, Melbourne Australia

2005 alchemical analogies ii, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra NSW Australia

2005 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…, two cubed, Sherman Galleries Sydney Australia

2004 alchemical analogies, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Australia

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 2006)

2011 Winter Pendants, Studio 20/17, Sydney

2010-2011 Excessory: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, organised by Museums & Galleries NSW, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, July-August 2010 then touring in 2011 to Grafton Regional Gallery, Goulburn Regional Gallery and Yarra Ranges Regional Museum

2010 Winter Brooches, Studio 20/17, Sydney

2010 The Jewelled Antipodean, Gallery Shop Si, Kobe, Japan

2010 Profile ’10, Studio 20/17, Sydney & Central Institute of Technology, Perth

2009 Cheers, Zu Design, Adelaide

2009 Paper/text, Studio 20/17, Sydney

2008 Fossik Australian Made, London Design Festival, London

2008 Contained, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

2008 Outside In, regional jewellery artists, New Land Gallery, Adelaide then touring Australian regional galleries till November 2008  

2008 Contemporary Jewellery, Adelaide Arcade, Adelaide

2007 Explorations ’07, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2007 Contemporary Wearables ’07, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba 

2007 Curio: A Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition, Redland Art Gallery, Brisbane 

2007 Spinning Straw, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 

2007 Catch on 2, Korean Trade Fair, Seoul, Korea, organised by Zu Design, Adelaide

2007 Paper 3 with Norio Takamiya (wood prints) & Morgan Veness (drawings), Marianne Newman Gallery, Sydney

2007 50 brooches, Craft Queensland Gallery, Brisbane

2007 Integration: the nature of objects, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2006 City of Hobart Art Prize 2006, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart

2006 Wrapped, Zu Design, Adelaide

2006 Out-of-site, Pyrmont Studios JMGA-NSW, Sydney

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2007 The Rhianon Vernon-Roberts Memorial Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia

2004 Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia

2003 Decorative Arts Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia