Jenny has exhibited locally and internationally with 20 site-specific solo shows, including at MOCA Taipei in 2013, and more than 54 group exhibitions including An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Cabinet Gallery, New York 2011; as well as at the Asian Pacific Contemporary Art exhibition in 2018.
Jenny holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the VCA, University of Melbourne, and a Master of Computing from Monash University.
Light with Hope
Light with Hope is a public art project using traditional bamboo steamers and modern safety mesh as materials to create symbolised miner’s lamps, intending to deliver a message of safe venturing into the unknown and seeking a better life.
Bamboo steamers, associated exclusively with traditional Chinese dim sum cooking, originated in China thousands of years ago. They symbolise the sharing of dim sum during yum cha. The orange safety mesh is a modern material used to zone off areas on construction sites and it implies that we are safe and protected in this location and time.
By using different numbers of lamps, the artwork can be presented in any space, at any size and configuration with multiple patterns and/or random display. They are all waterproof, have UV protection and are lightweight to be suspended on rigging.
Like the light from the miner’s lamp, this project imitates all the migrants that have the capacity to share light with hope in any situation.