Jenna Pippett

Kaurna Country / Adelaide based artist, Jenna Pippett works in performance and digital media, drawing inspiration from collected family memorabilia. Examining the circumstances surrounding ancestral migration, both anecdotally and researched, the work aims to evoke the memory of the past through physical acts of recreation. Graduating in 2012 with a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours from Adelaide Central School of Art, Pippett was selected for Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She also exhibited in the 2013 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, in which she received the City of Adelaide Award. In 2017 Pippett was awarded the Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art at the Adelaide Fringe.

Pippett has exhibited in a solo capacity at Post Office Projects (2021, SA), Kings Artist Run (2018, VIC), ACE Open: ACE Across (2017, SA) , Sawtooth ARI (2017, TAS), SEVENTH Gallery (2016, VIC), Constance ARI (2014, TAS), FELTspace (2014, SA), and City of Adelaide’s Art Pod (2013, SA). Also participating in several group exhibitions, including at Adelaide Central Gallery (SA), Hobiennale (TAS), GAGPROJECTS (SA), FELTspace (SA), Adelaide Town Hall (SA), Australian Experimental Art Foundation: Odradek (SA), Screen Space (VIC), Abbostford Convent (VIC), Video Platform: Art Stage Singapore (Singapore) and Art Stage Jakarta (Indonesia), Muratcentoventidue: Arte Contemporanea (Italy) amongst others.

In 2019, Pippett worked as an Exhibition Attendant for the Australia Council for the Arts in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. An active member of the local arts community, Pippett served as a Co-Director of FELTspace (2015-18), a nationally recognised Artist Run Initiative and has previously been peer assessor for Carclew Youth Arts. She currently sits on the Artist Advisory Group and the Board for (SALA) South Australian Living Artist Festival and is the Gallery Manager at Hugo Michell Gallery.

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I acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region on which I work and live; and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.