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Sandra Jenkins
Sandra Jenkins was born in Devonport, Tasmania in 1969. She spent a year living in outback Queensland with her family in 1980. Upon arriving back in Tasmania, the family moved to a large hobby farm where she spent many hours drawing and painting, inspired by the freedom to wander the bush, river, a huge old quarry and nearby arboretum. A Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Sculpture was completed in 1992.
Sandra also trained as an art teacher, specialising in Secondary Education. Family, in particular being a single parent to two girls while working full-time, put a halt on serious art production until 2017. Artworks, mainly paintings, were done in the intervening years.
Career highlights include being a finalist in the Bay of Fires Art Prize 2024, the Henry Jones Art Prize in 2019 and 2023, the People’s Choice Award winner at the Peppermint Bay Sculpture competition in 2005 and winner of The Sandstone Challenge Award in Launceston in 2003.
Sandra now lives and works in North West Tasmania and teaches at the local high school. She is inspired by colour and shape and paints landscapes and still lives in oil.
Exhibitions
2024 Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, Tas
2024 Grand Finale Exhibition, Scottsdale Art Gallery Cafe, Tas
2024 All in, Community Art Exhibition, Devonport Regional Gallery Tas
2024 TATA Members Exhibition, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
2023 Henry Jones Art prize, Hobart, Tas
2023 45th TasArt Exhibition, Burnie, Tas
2023 Miribilla Exhibition, Scottsdale Art Gallery Café, Tas
2023 NWAC Annual Exhibition, Devonport Regional Art Gallery Tas
2023 Still life Exhibition, Bluethumb Art Gallery, Richmond Vic
2022 Artex, Ulverstone, Tas
2022 Artist in Residence Trail, Art as Mania, Deloraine, Tas
2022 Spring into Spring Exhibition, Scottsdale Art Gallery Café, Tas
2022 Percival Portrait Painting Prize, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, QLD
2022 Miribilla Exhibition, Scottsdale Art Gallery Café, Tas
2022 Small Works Art Prize 2022, Brunswick Street Art Gallery, Victoria
2021 Salon des Refuses, Gallerie Seventy One, Hobart
2021 Gestalt Exhibition, Scottsdale Art Gallery Cafe, Scottsdale
2021 Launceston Art Society Summer Art Exhibition
2020 Scottsdale Art Gallery Café, Reflections of Light Exhibition
2019 Henry Jones Art Prize, Hobart Tas
2019 Tasart Exhibition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
2018 Tasart Exhibition, Burnie Coastal Art Group
Awards
2021 Highly Commended, Launceston Art Society Summer Art Exhibition
2019 Finalist, Henry Jones Art Prize, Henry Jones Art Hotel
2019 Commendation, Tasart Exhibition, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
2005 People’s Choice Award, Peppermint Bay Sculpture competition
2003 The Sandstone Challenge Award, Launceston
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