WEDNESDAY TALK // Jennifer Martiniello

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM is an award-winning visual artist, poet and writer of Lower Southern Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. She was awarded Canberra Critics Circle Awards for Visual Arts 2011 and 2013, is an ACT Creative Arts Fellow (2003) and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Fellow (2013-2014), Australia Council for the Arts. Jennifer’s prizes include Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2013, Bay of Fires Art Prize 2016, Wollatuka Art Prize 2012 and Reimagine Art Prize 2023. She was recognised as an Asia Pacific Region Craft Master 2023 by the World Crafts Council Australia and received the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2022. 

Jennifer’s  works are held in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, QAGOMA, Northern Territory Art Gallery and Museum, Australian Parliament House Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank, National Museum of Palau, National Art Gallery of the Solomon Islands, the Corning Museum of Glass, USA and the British Museum UK. Jennifer works from her studio at Canberra Glassworks on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri land.