Education
1989-90 Graduate Diploma (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts
1986-88 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture), Sydney College of the Arts
1983-84 Foundation Course, Sir John Cass School of Arts, London
1982-83 Sculpture 1, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Italy
1977-81 Bachelor of Arts, with Honours in Fine Arts, University of Sydney
2011 Lives and works in Sydney
Public Art Commissions
2011 Halo, kinetic wind artwork, Central Park Broadway, Frasers Broadway Pty Ltd, in development
2010 Winglines, kinetic wind artwork, Murrurundi NSW, Hunter and Central Coast Regional Environment Management Strategy, concept
2011 Windlines, kinetic wind & text artwork, Scout Place, Circular Quay Sydney, Scouts Australia and The City of Sydney, completed
2009 Circumference, kinetic artwork, 363 George St Sydney, ISPT, concept
2009 Limitless Access, kinetic wind artwork, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, concept
2009 Sitting Stones, interactive installation, Trio Camperdown Sydney, Frasers Property, completed
2006 Tidal Cranes & Drunken Piles, kinetic tide and wind artworks, winning design East Darling Harbour Urban Design Competition, concept
2006 Sunscript, solar artwork, Southbank Tafe Brisbane, concept
2006 Sailing the Tide & Singing the Land, kinetic water wind and sound artwork, Captain Cook’s Landing Site Kurnell Botany Bay, winner Landing Site National Monument Design competition, with Alison Page, concept
2006 Power Plants-Solar Flowers, environmentally functional artwork, for water management system, Sydney Olympic Park, concept
2005 Lighter Than Air, kinetic artwork, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, concept
2003 Fan, kinetic wind artwork, Federation Mall Canberra, Australian Federal Government National Planning Authority, concept & design development
2003 Adrift, Solar Sprays & Mirage, water artworks, North Terrace Adelaide, Adelaide City Council and South Australian Government , concept
2002 Tidal Cranes, Water Crane Ballet & Tippy Tidal Masts, kinetic wind and water artworks Victoria Harbour Docklands Melbourne, Lend Lease Pty Ltd, concept 2002 Storm Waters, environmental water artwork, Joynton Park Victoria Park Sydney, Landcom
2001 Ghost Windows, kinetic light artwork, Supreme Court Sydney, NSW Attorney General’s Department
2000 Water Swing, kinetic water artwork, Landmark Centre, Sydney Australian Growth Properties Ltd.
1999 Tied To Tide, kinetic tide wave and wind artwork, Pyrmont Point Park, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
1998 Time Rings, environmentally interactive artwork, Bicentennial Park Stage II Leichhardt, Leichhardt Council
1998 Signs of Life, Fowlers Gap Broken Hill, Broken Hill Art Gallery and Museum, concept
1997 Tank, kinetic light artwork, Downing Centre Museum Station Tunnel Sydney, NSW Attorney General’s Department
1997 Solar Flowers, solar energy infrastructure interpretive artwork, Homebush Bay, NSW Waste Management Services, concept
1997 Water Sculpture, water artwork, New Brisbane International Airport, Federal Airports Corporation
1996 The Memory Line, temporary environmental artwork 'Restoring The Waters' Clear Paddock Creek Fairfield, Australian Conservation Foundation & Fairfield Council
1996 Floating the Underground, water and stone artwork, York Park Canberra, National Capital Planning Authority, concept
1996 Tidal Underground, light and stone artwork, Customs House Circular Quay, City of Sydney Council, concept 1996 Rock Wobble, interactive artwork, Bicentennial Park Stage II Leichhardt, Leichhardt Council, concept
1995 Well, water artwork, New Children's Hospital Westmead, Sydney
1995 Drawers of Water, water artwork, New Children's Hospital Westmead, Sydney
1995 Enigma of Invisible Sounds, water sound artwork, Australian Graduate School of Management University of New South Wales Sydney, concept 1994 A Fountain & Two Rivers, water artwork, with Joan Brassil, Campbelltown City Council, concept
1994 The Footbridge, floating footbridge artwork, Luna Park Sydney, Luna Park Trust, concept
1993 River Caves Ride, Luna Park Sydney, Wittingslow Amusements Pty Ltd, concept
Select Interdisciplinary Urban Design, Art Master-Plan and Curatorial Projects
2010-12 Artists In Residence, Irving Street Brewery Central Park, Frasers Broadway Pty Ltd, temporary public art project curation with Anne Loxley
2009-11 Public Art Strategy Central Park Broadway, public art master-plan and continuing consultancy, Frasers Broadway Pty Ltd.
2008-09 Barangaroo Stage 1, public art master-plan and public art concepts, shortlisted competition southern site, Brookfield Multiplex/Hassell team
2007-08 ABC Water Program, art consultancy for Atelier Dreiseitl Asia for Singapore Government , Singapore, 2007-08 Maitland Regional Art Gallery, new wing art consultant, to architect Paul Berkemeier
2006 East Darling Harbour Competition, Sydney, public art concepts, stage II winning team PBA, Hill Thalis, JILA 2004 Parramatta Civic Square Master-Plan Competition, public and environmental art concepts, Multiplex design consultant team
2003-07 Public Art Consultancy, Multiplex Developments Pty Ltd
1999 Alexandra Canal Masterplan Competition, public art concepts, Department of Urban Affairs & Planning NSW & The South Sydney Development Corporation, Connybeare Morrison urban design team
1995 Priority One, Pitt Street Sydney, Sydney City Council, public art concepts, with Buzacott Caro Architects & Spackman Mossop
1995 Sydney Spaces, public art concepts, Central Railway Square, Sydney City Council, with architect Ken Maher
1994 Homebush Bay Sydney 2000 Olympic Studio, public art concepts, with Darlene Van der Breggen and John Blakeney
Select Exhibitions
2006 Fan and Tidal Cranes models, Supermodels, Object Gallery, Sydney
2006 Water Works video and drawings, Partnership or Perish, Academy Gallery University of Tasmania, Launceston 2004 Holy Ghost, site: [unseen], Dank Street Depot, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1999 Tank and Tied to Tide images, Sydney Metropolis, Museum of Sydney 1996 Green Noise II, Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1995 Green Noise I, Girls Girls Girls!, Annandale Galleries, Sydney; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
1996 Green Noise II, Transformers, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand 1995
1996 The Water Axis, Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, with Peter Tonkin & Gail McDermott 1994 Going Public, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1993 Water Works V, The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, NGV, Melbourne
1992 Water Works IV, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1992 In the Hoist Shaft, Synthesis 6, MSB Bond Store, Sydney, with James Grose Water
1992 Works III, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
1991 Water Works II, Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, SCA Sydney
1990 Water Works I, Vault, The John Heine Foundry Sydney Drawers of Water, Inland: A Spatial Heritage, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne
1988 Shifting Ground, 89 Degrees on the Water, SCA exhibition, Pier 2/3/ Walsh Bay Sydney
1987 Without the Walls, Histories, The Performance Space, Sydney
1985 A Split Second of Paradise, performance with Station House Opera, London & Nottingham UK
Community Art and Education Workshops
2007 Turning the Pages, art & environmental workshops & installation, 5 local schools years K-8, Murrurundi, Hunter Valley 2005 Invisible in the Deep, art workshops and installation, Dobroyd Point Public School
2003 Pymble Ladies College, 3 day art workshop, years 10 &11, Mangrove Mountain
1999 Pymble Ladies College, 3 day art workshop, years 10 &11, ‘Camp Knox’, Hawkesbury
1996 Restoring the Waters, art and environmental workshops and installations, St Johns Public School and St Johns High School, Australian Conservation Foundation and Fairfield City Council
1996 SCEGGS Darlinghurst, art workshop, year 11
1994 SCEGGS Darlinghurst, art workshop, year 11
Professional Awards and Personal Grants
2008 NSW Local Government & Shires Cultural Award-Programs Projects & Partnerships for Turning the Pages
2006 Professional Development Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council, Sydney
2004 Energy Australia & National Trust Heritage Award for King Street Court Complex including ‘Ghost Windows’ 2003 Planning NSW Award for Design for Storm Waters Victoria Park, Sydney
2003 Lloyd Rees Civic Award, Royal Australian Institute of Architects for Storm Waters at Victoria Park, Sydney 2000 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Jury Award for Artwork for Water Swing, Sydney.
2000 National Association Of Women in Construction, ARUP Merit Award - Art in the Built Environment for Tied to Tied
1999 National Association Of Women in Construction ARUP Merit Award - Art in the Built Environment for Tank 1997 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (NSW & ACT groups) Award of Excellence Landscape Artwork for 'Restoring the Waters', collaboration Schaffer Barnsley
1996 Professional Development Grant, Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Australia Council, Sydney
1991 & 1993 Project Grants, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council, Sydney, for the Artist Run Initiative Art Engineering Studios (founding member)
1991 Project Grant, Visual Arts/Crafts Board, Australia Council, Sydney 1982 Arthur Macquarie Post Graduate Travelling Scholarship, University of Sydney
Associated Professional Experience
1981-83 Art Research Assistant, Thirty Victoria Street Gallery Potts Point Sydney
1984-85 Performer, Station House Opera, performance art group, London 19?? Lecturer Art History, Sydney College of the Arts
Select Publications
Adams, Bruce, 'Jennifer Turpin', catalogue essay, Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 1993
Baker, Candida, 'Artist Hitching Water to the Cultural Stream', The Age, Melbourne, 24 August 1992
Baume, Nicholas, 'Jennifer Turpin: Annandale Galleries’, Art and Text, 43, 1992
Cullen, Simon, ‘Sculptural Works by Jennifer Turpin – Three Things I’ve Seen: “Shifting Ground”, “Drawers of Water”, “Water Works I”’ , 1991Cranswick, David, ‘Bridging Art and Ecology’ Artlink vol 18 No: 2 1998
Cummings, June, ‘Producing Public Art’, Building Innovation & Construction Technology, No 19 December – January 1997/98
Crawford, Ashley, 'Inland', Tension, January 1991
Delaruelle, Jacques, 'Jennifer Turpin: Water Works', Art Monthly Australia, 16 September 1992
Green, Charles, 'Engineering Tranquility', World Art, Vol.1, No.1, 1994
Green, Charles, Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-1994, Craftsman House, 1995
Gregoriou, Linda and McGowan, Tempe, 'Public Places, Private Visions', Monument, Sydney, No. 21,
Guppy, Marla, Better Places, Richer Communities-Cultural Planning & Local Development-Australia Council, 1997
Holliday, Phillip, ‘Jennifer Turpin – Interview’, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Issue 5 1994 Jackson, Davina & Johnson, Chris, Australian Architecture Now, Thames & Hudson, London 2000
Jackson, Davina, ‘Fan, a Brilliant Symbol of the Suffrage of Women, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 September 2003
James, Bruce ‘Unlocking the Quay’, The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, 25 January 1997
Johnson, Anna, 'Young at Art', The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Magazine, 26 April 1997
Johnson, Chris & Bingham-Hall, Patrick, Celebrating Sydney 2000 - 100 Legacies, Pesaro Publishing 2000
Jones-Evans, Dale, 'Reinventing The City', Architecture Australia, January-February, 1993
Kidd, Courtney, ’Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or more of The Same?’ Artlink vol 18 No2 1998
Leatherdale, Julian, 'Water Works', Oz Arts, 10, 1994 Lynn, Victoria, ‘Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford - The Choreography of Time, Light, Water’, Art and Australia 2001
Marshall, Nancy & de Lorenzo, Catherine, ‘Swings and Roundabouts’, Public Art Review, Issue 42, Spring/Summer 2010
McGillick, Paul, ‘Making Connections - The Public Art of Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford’, Like, Art Magazine, 2001
McGillick, Paul, 'New Children's Hospital', Monument, No. 14, 1996
Mossop, Elizabeth & Walton, Paul, ed City Spaces Art & Design, Craftsman House 2001
Murray-Cree, Laura, Awesome, Australian Art For Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, 2002
Murray-Cree, Laura (ed) Twenty - Sherman Galleries, Craftsman House 2006
O’Brian, Geraldine, ‘Sculptors Expose O’Brian, Geraldine, ‘Sculptors Expose Sydney’s Working Heart’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 1999
Radok,Stephanie, ‘Sympathetic Resonance – Making The Invisible Visible: Women In Sculpture 1993’, Artlink, Vol 13 No. 2 June – August 1993 Sydney’s Working Heart’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 1999
Schaffer, Barbara “Water Stories – River Rituals’, Habitat ACF Vol 24 No:5 October 1996
Stewart, Meg , 'Jennifer Turpin- Creative Spirit', The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 April 1996
Susskind, Anne, 'Tank', The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 1997 Towndrow, Jennifer, 'Synthesis 6: Collaborations Now& for the Future', Architecture Australia, Dec 1992
Turpin & Crawford, ‘Restoring The Waters: Artists in Suburban Ecologies’, Mossop and Walton (ed), City Spaces, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001 Turpin, Jennifer, 'Landscape, Memory and Desire', Art Network, No. 15, Autumn 1985
Turpin, Jennifer, 'Sculpting the Landscape: The Wondabyne Symposium' Follow Me, No. 30 Sept1987
Winnikoff, Tamara, ed. Places Not Spaces: Placemaking in Australia, Envirobook, Sydney 1995
