| Artist | Jennifer Allnutt | Resides | Australia |
| Website | jenniferallnutt.com | Medium | Oil |
| Print Shop | jennyallnutt.bigcarterl.com | [email protected] | |
| Representing Gallery | Beinart Gallery Brunswick, VIC. Australia | Themes | The Unconscious Transformation Memento Mori Vanitas Mythology Spirituality |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Press | jenniferallnutt.com/press |
About the artist
Jennifer Allnutt is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Art has been a pivotal part of her life since childhood nurtured by her grandfather, but it was in 2007 as a teenager, when she first discovered her love for oil painting and since then she hasn’t been able to put her paintbrush down. She graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) in 2011. Furthermore, she has a Master of Teaching (UniSA 2016). Jennifer has exhibited her work extensively throughout Australia as well as New Zealand and the United States.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Jennifer Allnutt constructs images which straddle the line between realism and illusionism. In her surrealistic portraits she explores the uncanny, the unconscious mind, transformation and identity. Her works often grapple to find a way to visually express feelings and desires that we repress. Finding inspiration in dreams, mythology, poetry, personal experiences and conversations; Jennifer creates portraits that operate as carriers for her musings. There is unquestionably a drive in her work to tell a story or weave an ambiguous narrative. This is found by the subtle hints in symbolic objects, clothing, facial expressions or even a small gesture. She uses juxtaposition to consider divisions between the mind/body, man/nature and reality/representation. The works themselves are often figures or busts, seemingly suspended in time with symbolic, surrealistic interventions.
Press
Jennifer Allnutt’s paintings have been featured in notable magazine and online sources including Beautiful Bizarre Magazine (Issue 35), This is Colossal, Bored Panda, Demilked, and Design Boom
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| September 2023 | Group exhibition: “Small Works” | Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, VIC. Australia |
| March 2024 | Solo Exhibition: “Les Fleurs Du Mal” | Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, VIC. Australia |
| July 2024 | Group Exhibition: ” RX” | Quirky Fox Hawera, New Zealand |
CV
Education
2011 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia.
Awards
2024
Overall winner: A Pagan’s Prayer to the Muses, Lethbridge 20’000 Small Scale Art Award 2024, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Queensland
Selected Solo Exhibition
2022
Semper Augustus, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
2020
Spectre, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Dark Art 2023, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
Beyond Original: The Portrait Show 11, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA. United States
Folk Horror, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
Locals, Outré Gallery, Fitzroy, Fitzroy, Australia
Art Collector Starter Kit IX, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Antipodes 2023, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
2022
The Last Unicorn, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Halcyon Days, Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA. United States
Small Works 2022, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
The Portrait Show X, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA. United States
Interconnected, Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, NERAM, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, Australia
Throwback: Celebrating 6 years of Beinart Gallery, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
2021
The Little Prince. 75th Anniversary Group Show, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Dark Art 2021, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
The Portrait Show IX, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Lucid Dreaming, Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. United States
15 Year Anniversary Show, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
Antipodes 2021, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
2020
Curious Alchemy, Wow X Wow Gallery (Online)
Microvisions 3, Wow X Wow Gallery (Online)
Spectre, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
Antipodes, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia
