Gennifer Anderson

Artist Profile

Gennifer is a multimedia artist working with acrylics, pastels, oils, stencils, aerosols, and a multitude of found items. She says, “art is how I sing, dance and pray! It is how I communicate and reflects my love for the natural environment and awe of man-made wonders. Its what happens when my thoughts, memories and feelings come out on the canvas, and I am able to acknowledge it all somehow”.
Gennifer enjoys experimenting with resin and uses it in her work, and as a finish on pieces that require something extra to hold everything together.
Her multi layered, multimedia pieces are embedded with precious natural and man-made treasures that she collects with an emphasis on recycling to counteract her use of acrylics, oils and resins. Her supports are often rescued packaging wood from local businesses, and she currently has a supply of large rolls of waterproof photocopy paper that makes an excellent surface after a few coats of gesso. Gennifer is a regular forager at reverse garbage.
Gennifer’s passion for connectedness through art comes from a career in Early Child Development and voluntary work in her community where she developed a holistic understanding of belonging as essential to health and wellbeing.
She is currently President of the Shellharbour City Arts Society and has had many opportunities to create art for public places in Wollongong and Shellharbour, her most notable being a 2 x 6 metre resin mural at Shellharbour Hospital. You can see all her public art projects in her Instagram Highlights.
Along with many solo and group exhibitions, career highlights include, winning the Jayne Wilson Memorial Art Prize in 2017 and being guest artist for the exhibition in 2019. She has received 1st and 2nd prizes at local art exhibitions and was the Presidents prize winner for the Wollongong Art Gallery Postcodes from the Edge competition in 2022. Gennifer says she paints to capture and make sense of the experiences of life in all its pain and joy and hopes her work connects with people who might sometimes feel overwhelmed or out of step.

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