Jennifer Baird

I was born in a small town called West Wyalong in country NSW, Australia. I grew up in Wagga Wagga and moved to Sydney to study Design. I am a professional artist with over 20 years experience painting and selling my own artwork. I started my artistic journey at Bondi Markets in 1994. I sold my first artwork for $5, it was a small pastel sketch of a boy holding a surfboard. I almost fell over and it was all the encouragement I needed to keep going.
Over the years I have had several group and solo shows, been invoved with establishing two galleries in Sydney, two book covers and had my originals published as art prints. But it was the girl who bought that little pastel sketch that changed everything for me. My soul found what it was meant to be doing, my Ikigai.
I call Canberra home now with my family and menagerie of animals, it is a big messy life and I have a big messy studio to make my art in. Strangely enough I am producing very minimal paintings and collages. Responding to the Canberra landscape.

1993. Bachelor of Design, UTS.

2024 - 'Cut and Composed' Group Exhibition, April West End Art Space, Melbourne.
2023 - 'Break it, you Buy it' Group Exhibition, October, Tributary Projects. Canberra

2023 - Chandelier, Group Exhibition, October SOL Gallery, Melbourne

2022 - Door to Door, Group Exhibition 8 - 24 September , Lite Haus Gallery Berlin

2022 - The Garden of Loss and Triumph, Group Exhibition 1 - 18 September NDSM Fuse Gallery, Amsterdam.

1996. Solo exhibition 'Noisy Water' Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi, Sydney.

1997 Solo exhibition 'Newtown Series' Blue Turtle Studio. Newtown, Sydney.

1999 Solo exhibition 'Blue Canvases' Blue Turtle Studio. Newtown, Sydney.

2003 Group exhibition 'Ocean and Earth' Culture Shop, Bronte, Sydney. With Ceramic artist Walter Auer.

2004 Solo exhibition 'Waters Edge' Glebe Healing Centre Glebe, Sydney.

2005 Solo exhibition 'Plastic Fantastic' MAD Gallery Enmore , Sydney.

2016 Group exhibition 'Landscape vs Urban' Brick Lane Gallery, London.

2016 Joint winner of the Sheridan Evans Art Award for artwork relating to Ocean Pools, for my lino print 'Pools of Sydney'.

2016 Shortlisted for the Brisbane Art Prize, for my work 'Unfolding'. Unfolded origami collage on canvas. Responding to the theme - the meaning of...