About
Jennifer Rosnell is an emerging Australian artist. Living and working in Collaroy on Sydney’s Northern beaches, she has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales.
With a professional background in graphic design and teaching drawing, she is a three time finalist with the National Portia Geach Memorial Portrait prize in 2020, 2021 and 2023. A finalist in prizes such as the Percival Portrait Prize, The National Emerging Art Prize ACB Selects, The Little Things Art Prize and the Mosman Art Prize 2022. Her practice is based on years of life drawing sessions at Julian Ashton Art School in the Rocks and Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Sydney.
Her current focus is on her oil portrait paintings, sunbather’s, ferry seascapes and fish market series.
Awards & Exhibitions
2024 Brisbane Affordable Art Fair, QLD
with Toowoomba Gallery
9th-12th May2024 Pittwater Artist Trail
Group Exhibition Newport & Open Studio Collaroy, NSW2024 Finalist ‘Inside This Box’ Group Exhibition
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW2024 Featured in Home Beautiful magazine Feb issue
’Local Australian Artists to buy from now’2023 Finalist
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW2023 Finalist Hornsby Art Prize
Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre - Hornsby, NSW2023 Finalist
The Little Things Art Prize
Saint Cloche Gallery - Paddington, NSW2023 Finalist - Group Exhibition
40u40 SketchCo Gallery - Surry Hills, NSW2023 Artist in Residence
Simpson Cottage Bundeena, NSW2023 Pittwater Artist Trail
Group Exhibition & Open Studio Collaroy, NSW
2023 Affordable Art Fair Sydney
withToowoomba Art Gallery2023 “High Tide’ Group Exhibition
Sketch & Co Gallery, Surry Hills NSW2023 Artists of Mosman: 2088
Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW2023 ‘Untitled’ Group Exhibition
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW2023 Finalist ‘Inside This Box’
Group Exhibition
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW2022 Finalist
MAP Mudgee Portrait Prize
Mudgee Arts Precinct - Mudgee, NSW2022 Winner Viewers Choice
The Mosman Art Prize
Mosman Art Gallery - Mosman, NSW2022 Finalist
The Little Things Art Prize
Saint Cloche Gallery - Paddington, NSW2022 Group Exhibition
Incognito Art Show - Surry Hills, NSW2022 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne VIC
withToowoomba Art Gallery2022 Semi-Finalist
The Darling Portrait Prize -
The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT2022 Finalist
The Percivals Portrait Prize,
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD2022 Finalist ‘Inside This Box’
Group Exhibition
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW2021 Finalist ‘National Emerging Art Prize, ACB Selects’
Group Exhibition
Michael Reid Gallery, Northern Beaches Online exhibition2021 Finalist
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW2021 Finalist Mini Series Art Prize
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW2021 Group Exhibition
‘Feathers & Dreams’
Northern Beaches Gallery, Cromer NSW2020 Finalist
The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW
I acknowledge the Garigal people, as the traditional Custodians of the land in which I conduct my art practice and pay respect to Indigenous Elders, past, present and emerging.