Profile

Jenny Saulwick
Artist and Sculptor.

Profession. Artist. Community Cultural Consultation in Urban and Rural Art, Design workshops and Conceptual design development. Sculpture, Environmental Art, Photography and Textiles.

Partnership. Saulwick Art and Design. I am in partnership with my husband Rodney.
Qualifications. Master of Education. The University of Melbourne 1990. Disciplined based research: A Community Environmental Art Project. Education/Integrated research: The development of the Artists and Architects in Schools programs.
Bachelor of Education (Art and Crafts). Melbourne State College 1979.
Work record on art projects and employment record, 1984/1998. I work collaboratively as a sculptor, environmental designer and community artist with local communities, and sometimes other artists, and am employed by local governments, semi-government authorities, schools and community groups on site specific Art in Public Places projects.
This work is on-going and current since 1984. I am also employed as an art and design consultant by groups to develop art and design staged plans in both urban and rural areas, again this part of my on-going work. See below for some details of these activities.
Skills base and expertise. Sculpture/Ceramics/Mosaics, Environmental Design, Photography, Textiles. Design Workshops, Conceptual Design Development. Exhibitions/Displays, Reports, Copywriting, Computer, Video production.
Site specific Public art. Sculpture projects and collaborations
1994-1998. On-going.
1998 Malvern Central School. Artist in School residency. Design and implementation of ceramic mural for school wall.
1998. Narre Warren South Community Centre. Community artist. Working with the community for the design, fabrication and installation of entrance paving for the new community centre.
1997. St John the Baptist Primary School. Artist in School residency (AEDIS). Design and implementation of large ceramic mural for school library wall.
1995-97. Selby Community House Amphitheatre and Children's Playground. Consultant/Designer.
1995-6. Elmhurst Park Gateway Project, City of Hume. Sculptor/community artist, using a consultative/collaborative process for an environmental gateway design and its fabrication. 1995 The Spirit of Dandenong. The Dandenong Festival Sculpture Project for the Greater City of Dandenong.
1993-95. Implementation: Coloured concrete paving, compass design, for information markers for the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, Queenscliff.
1990-91. Sculptor/community artist for Melbourne Water Corporation to produce native animals and birds for the playground at the Braeside Metropolitan Park, Braeside, Victoria. Basis for design development: Community consultation.
1989-90. Sculptor and community artist for the Northbrook Art Garden. Production of a 20 column colonnade and coloured wall, City of Malvern.
1984-86. Artist/designer and project manager of the Community Use Sculpture Project - 5 earth amphitheatres and 6 cast concrete murals at Emerald Lake Park, Victoria. Basis of design development and implementation: Community consultation and implementation.

Art and Design plans, community cultural development including collaborations with community groups, 1984-1996.
1996. Dingley Village Chamber of Commerce consultation and design development with the traders for the Dingley Village shopping centre verandahs, facias and signage.
1996. Greenvale Reservoir Sensory Trail for people with differing abilities for Melbourne Parks and Waterways.
1995. Artists-in-Residence with Mark McWha, Landscape Architect, for The Three Schools Design Project ‘The Never Ending Pathway’, Eumemmering Secondary College, Fountain Gate Campus, Dandenong Valley Special Development School, Fountain Gate Primary School.
1992-6. Urban arts consultant and artist-in-residence on a Placemaking Project for the Dingley Village Neighbourhood Centre, City of Springvale, developed with traders and residents, (on-going). Published recommendations: Dingley Divinations - Community Magic. Basis for the plan's development: community consultation. Dingley Divinations, winner Community Planning Award for Planning Excellence, Royal Australian Planning Institute for 1993.
1992-94. Belgrave Township Consultative Committee, traders, residents and Shire of Sherbrooke councillors, developing a revitalisation plan for the Belgrave Township.
1991. Urban arts consultant on a Placemaking Project for the City of Hamilton for the Central Business District of Hamilton, developed with traders, residents and councillors. Published recommendations: Grange Square (now Mitchell Square). Basis for the plan's development: Community consultation.
1990-91. Artist Consultant on a Placemaking Project for the Shire of Phillip Island, developed with traders, residents and councillors. Published recommendations: Phillip Island 10 year Art and Design Plan. Basis for the plan's development: Community consultation.
1988-90. Braeside Metropolitan Park playground project, MMBW, Friends of Braeside Park.
1988-90. The Northbrook Art Garden, City of Malvern project, traders, residents and councillors.
1987-88. Pipemakers Park, formerly, Humes Site Historical Industrial Park at Lower Maribyrnong, Worked with the Living Museum of the West historians and archaeologist. Sculpture Installation 8ft Pipe Bottom Factory proposal and scale model, for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works.
1984-86. Community Use Sculpture Project - Emerald Lake Park, Victoria. Emerald community and Shire of Sherbrooke councillors for the development of the 5 earth amphitheatres and 6 cast concrete murals at the Emerald Lake Park.
Collaborative experience with artists, arts officers, community development workers. 1985 -1998 on-going.
1997-98. Sueanne Claringbould, Arts officer/Community Development Officer, City of Casey.
1995-97. Robyn Holtham, Claire Findlay, Selby Community House Coordinators, & Jodie Cant, Shire of Yarra Ranges, Landscape Officer, on the Selby Community House Amphitheatre and Children's Playground.
1995. Louise Ford, Art Teacher and Coordinator of The Three Schools Project, Fountain Gate.
1995. Kirsten Hoak, Parkland Consultant, on the Elmhurst Park Gateway Project.
1995-6. Maria et al, Community Development officers and nurses, Springvale Legal Service, Wonderful Women Celebrating Diversity Mural for the Western Port Domestic Violence Network for International Women's Day.
1995. Greg Box and Jenny Pemberton-Webb, Greater City of Dandenong Cultural Officers on the Spirit of Dandenong Sculpture.
1994. Ann Saunders, Community nurse, Springvale Community Health Centre. Vic Health Spanish Speaking Women's Banner Project.
1992. Jonathan McNaughton, Arts Officer, City Of Springvale, on the Dingley Village Placemaking Project, Dingley Village.
1991. Fred Connaughton, Landscape Architect, and Alan McGregor, Community Arts Officer, on the City of Hamilton Placemaking Project, City of Hamilton.
1989-91. Ann Morgan-Payler, Landscape Architect, consultant and designer for the Braeside Metropolitan Park playground for the MMBW and Alan Aitkin, Landscape Designer, MMBW.
1988-90. Maggie Fooke, Landscape Designer, and Linda and Ray Richards, Mural Artists, Helen Simmondson, Art Officer on the Northbrook Art Garden, City of Malvern project. Included the concept development of the project.
1988. Jacinta Bartlett, Landscape Designer, consultant to the MMBW on the Humes Site, 8ft Pipe Bottom Factory, Lower Maribyrnong.
1985-86. Michael Noonan, Artist, Community Use Sculpture Project, Emerald Lake Park.
Community arts advocacy projects.
1996. Placemaking Information Kit. Writer: Jenny Saulwick. Designer: Rodney Saulwick. Working with the Dingley Village Community to develop a local community easily accessible 'How to do Placemaking' kit. 1996.
1993. Writer and Photographer: Community Art advocacy brochure for the Community Use Sculpture Project, Amphitheatres and Murals, Emerald Lake Park. Brochure: Graphic Designer: Rodney Saulwick. 1993.

Exhibitionas and Displays, 1979-1997.
1997. ‘Pandora’s Box of Communications’ World in a Matchbox 1997, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne.
1996. `Boxed In' The History of Modern Art, Seminal Works, World In a Matchbox Exhibition, Grand Central Gallery, Melbourne.
1996. 'Lepidoptera Chair'. Painted Chair, for The Cultural Board Auction, Olinda.
1995. History of Menzies Creek, Black/White Photographic Exhibition for Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society, Selby. Photographer.
1994. History of Selby, Black/White Photographic Exhibition for Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society, Selby. Photographer.
1993. Then and Now, Black/White Photographic Exhibition for Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society, Commonwealth Bank, Belgrave. Photographer.
1993. Dingley Divinations, Arts Victoria foyer.
1993. Joint exhibition with the Institute of Site Specific Art at the Designex, Exhibition Buildings.
1991. City of Hamilton Placemaking Project Display, Hamilton Art Gallery Foyer.
1990. Joint exhibition with Northbrook Art Garden Art and Design documentation, Victorian Ministry for the Art's exhibition space.
1990. 'Under the Southern Cross', sculpture installation proposal and maquette. City of Melbourne Art On Site: Sculpture in City Spaces Exhibition, conjointly with the Australian Sculpture Triennial.
1990. The South Lawn Sculpture Exhibition, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Institute of Education, University of Melbourne. Sculpture: 'Intimations de ... De Chirico'.
1988. Cockatoo Art Group, Nobelius Heritage Nursery exhibition, Emerald, Victoria. Carl Axel Nobelius, cast concrete head.
1979. Group sculpture exhibition, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne State College. Woven sculpture, mountain range; 6 ceramic expressionist masks.
1978. Group sculpture exhibition, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Hawthorn. Mixed media, figurative soft sculpture, expressionist animist figure.
Member of Arts committees, 1991-1998 on-going.
1997-98. Member, Special Committee, Dandenong Ranges Community Cultural Centre, Upwey for Yarra Ranges Council
1997-98. Chairperson, Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley Cultural Development Board.
1997. Convenor, Arts Cultural Task (ACT) Group.
1992-98. Consultant artist member of the Dingley Village Art and Design Committee, (ongoing).
1995-96. Arts Development. Rep., The Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges Cultural Development Board.
1994-5. Chairperson, Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges Cultural Development Board.
1992-4. Chairperson, East Central Regional Arts Network (Completed).
1992-5. Artist, Member of Belgrave Township Consultative Committee.
1992-94. Member, Arts Training Victoria Community Arts Industry and Education Standing Committee.
1994. Member of Association for Local Arts Development (ALAD).
1991-92. Artist member, Arts Victoria Regional Arts Task Force (Completed).
1991. Member, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Art and Environmental Design Reference Group, Art and Public Spaces Program (completed).
Teaching experience. Tertiary, Secondary and Adult and Community Education. 1980-1998 on-going.
1998. Tutor: Arts Business Practice, Dingley Village Neighbourhood Centre, ACFI funded.
1994-8. Tutor: Arts Business Practice, Selby Community House, ACFI funded.
1995. Tutor: Community Art Elective, Associate Diploma of Social Science, Community Development. 1995-96. Tutor: Arts Business Practice, Narre-Warren Neighbours, ACFI funded.
1991. Lecturer: Sculpture, Centennial Summer School, The University of Melbourne.
1988-90. Lecturer: Sculpture, The University of Melbourne.
1982-87. Lecturer: Sculpture, Melbourne College of Advanced Education.
1986-92. Tutor: Painting, Cockatoo Art Group, Emerald, Vic.
1981-83. Teacher: Art, Croydon Community School.
1980. Teacher: Art, Upper Yarra High School.
Lectures and Workshops, 1991-1998 on-going.
Papers published, 1989-1997.
1997. ‘Privileged’. Article in the journal Woorilla on the Koori artist, the late Lin Onus.
1991. History: Artists and Architects in Schools Programs 1978/90, in The Journal of the Institute of Art Education.
1989. Community Art and Community Decision Making, in Antithesis Vol 3 No 1 1989.

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