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Jill Kempson was born in July 1961, Melbourne, Victoria, where she lived until 1982. She lived in Perth, Western Australia, between 1982 and 2011. Since 2012, Jill has been living in Melbourne.
EDUCATION
2005
Limbourg Restoration Centre Maastricht, Netherlands Summer School, study of the historical painting techniques
2004
Centre for Research and Restoration for French Museums, Musee du Louvre Study of the historical painting techniques
1992
Certificate of Art and design in Jewellery, TAFE Perth WA
1989
Paris /American Academy, Ecole de Beaux- Arts De Mode et de Langues, Paris France Summer school to study painting and French language
1986
Anthropology- University of Western Australia, First Year
1979-1982
Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Victoria Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
(May- June) Solo exhibition ‘The Language of Flowers’ Lennox St. Gallery Richmond – Victoria
2021
‘Intertwined’ Recent Works, Eastgate Gallery Hawthorn Melbourne
2018
‘Still Point of the Turning World’ – Eastgate Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne 21 July-18 August
2016
‘Two Places’- Birds Gallery Kew Melbourne
2015
‘Places’ Alliance Francaise- Eildon Gallery, St Kilda Melbourne
Represented by Delwyn Freestone of Chrysalis Gallery Melbourne
2014
‘Return to Blue’ – Margaret River Gallery, Western Australia
2013
‘The Space Between’- The Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2011
‘Earth, Sky and Water’ – A Journey, Galerie Dusseldorf Perth WA
2010
‘All in Stillness, Stands’ Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2010
‘Garden Exploration- In and Out of Norfolk’ The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
2007
Kidogo House, Bather’s Beach, Fremantle
2007
‘Skyscapes’, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
2006
‘Tonalities of Time: The Forgotten Ways’, Galerie Düsseldorf
2004
‘Remain in Light’, Galerie Düsseldorf
2001
‘Foreign Yet Familiar’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1999
‘Reflections’, Fremantle Arts Centre
1998
‘Unforeseen Journeys’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1995
‘Looking Back to Look Forward’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1993
‘Journeys to the Interior’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1991
‘Threading Light and Land in Tuscany’, Galerie Düsseldorf
1989
‘Secret Garden of the Interior’, Galerie Düsseldorf
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2026
Summer Salon ‘Little Treasures’ Lennox St. Richmond
The Caves Fundraiser Exhibition – The Nicholas Building, Melbourne
2025
The 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the Murdoch University Art Collection – Western Australia
2024
‘Sinuous’ Lennox St. Gallery Richmond
2022
BACKW12DS Backwoods Gallery 25 Easey Street, Collingwood Vic
2021
‘Square of Sunlight’ Curated exhibition by Helen Gory, Ten Melbourne Women Painters. Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria
‘The Big Winter Show’ Cascade Gallery, Maldon, Victoria
2019
Rottnest Foundation Art Prize Award – A curated exhibition of 100 hundred invited artists at the Janet Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth Western Australia.
Wyndham Art Prize – featuring selected works of leading Australian artists Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Victoria.
The Great Outdoors- Eastgate Gallery Hawthorn Melbourne Victoria
2018
Invitation Tattersalls Club Landscape Art Prize Brisbane 3-21 September
Spring is Here – Eastgate Gallery, Hawthorn Melbourne
2017
Andrew Southall, Marieke Dench, Roger Byrt, Jill Kempson – Chapman&Bailey Gallery, Abbotsford, Melbourne
David Milne, Andrew Southhall, Jill Kempson and John Baird – Eastgate Gallery, Hawthorn Melbourne
St Kevin’s Art Prize, Curated Exhibition by Marita Smith. St Kevin’s College Toorak Melbourne.
Selected Artists- Eastgate Gallery Melbourne
2016
Portraits – Brick Lane Gallery, Shoreditch London
2013
Gertrude Stein and Companion Guild Studio, Perth WA
2013
Nouvelle Show, Birds Gallery, High St. Kew, Victoria
2013
‘LP’: The Times are a Changin, an exhibition of worked LP’s Galerie Dusseldorf Perth
2011
Galerie Dusseldorf and Surrounds and Sounds Nedlands WA
2009
Looking at Landscape, Murdoch University Art Collection, University Gallery
2008
City of Albany Art Award National acquisitive prize of finalists. Albany
2006
Melbourne Art Fair Exhibition Buildings represented by Galerie Dusseldorf
Reading the Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre
30 Years On Galerie Düsseldorf, Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA
5 Figurative Artists in the West, Galerie Düsseldorf
1998
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1998
21 Years On, Galerie Düsseldorf
1997
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman, Sydney, NSW
1996
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1995
Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Western Australia
1995
Recollection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
1994
Women of the West Royal Automobile Club, Sydney, NSW
1993
Ten Women Artists, Greenhill Galleries
1992
Artists’ Choice, Greenhill Galleries
1991
Invitation Art Award, Deloitte Ross Tohmatso, Royal Perth Showground’s
1990
Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1987
Six Pack, Praxis Gallery, Fremantle
Included in various exhibitions at Gunyulgup Gallery, Margaret River, WA and North Shore Fine Art, Mosman, Sydney
AWARDS
2019
Winner of the Rottnest Foundation Art Prize – Janet Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2013
Three-month residency ‘Villa Fontaine’, Antibes, France
2010
Arts WA, Art Flight Grant for exhibition Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2009
Austrade – Export Grant
2008
Arts WA, Development Grant: Research content for garden series, for an exhibition at The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London 2010
2006
People’s Choice Award, Bankwest Contemporary Art Prize, PICA, Australia
2004
Arts WA Development Grant: Research painting techniques Paris, France
2001
Arts WA Development Grant: Research, Paris, France
1989
Australia Council: Overseas Studio Residency, ‘Il Paretaio’, Tuscany, Italy
COMMISSIONS
2006 -2025
Various interstate and international private commissions, from America, England and Italy
1999
Fremantle Festival 1999 Poster, Fremantle City Council
1994
Design for Woollen Scarf, ‘Print on the Sheep’s Back’, Textiles for Nomads
Exhibited at the W.A. Art Gallery and the Australian Embassy in Paris
1992
Urban Thresholds poster, Transperth Public Art Programme
WORK EXPERIENCE
Film Art Direction- ‘How the West was Lost’, 1987, 72 mins
Directed and produced by David Noakes WINNER 1987 Human Rights Documentary Film Award NOMINATED FOR 5 AFI AWARDS.
COLLECTIONS
Antibes Council’s Collection, Antibes, France
Artbank
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Bank West
City of Fremantle
Edith Cowan University
Education Department of Western Australia
Evans & Tate
Federal Court, Perth
Murdoch University
Joondalup Art Collection
Royal Perth Hospital Saint
Saint John of God Hospital
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
TAFE
The University of Western Australia
Wesfarmers
Many private collections in Australia and Internationally (America, Italy, England, France)
PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
2021
Sunday Arts Magazine
JoyFM 94.9. Radio Interview about my exhibition ‘Intertwined’ Eastgate Gallery, Hawthorn. 24th May.
2019
‘Pour l’Amour de la Peinture’ – Patrick le Chanu . A beautiful short book published in French on the love of painting. pg 50
2017
Art Edit Australia– Best Oil Paintings – Autumn Edition 13
2016
Art Edit Australia – June Winter Edition
2013
Canberra Times, April 27 ‘Worlds Apart in Inspiration’ Sasha Grishin
2010
Canberra City News, Issue October 28 – November 3, by Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak ‘Kempson’s Light Touch’
The Sunday Telegraph, United Kingdom, Stella, ‘This Weeks Must Do and See’, pg.10
The West Australian, Today, Visual Arts, Stephen Bevis,’ All for the Love of Landscape’, pg 10.
Jill Kempson’s Oeuvre: Landscape in Perspective by Patrick Le Chanu Translated by Karen Le Chanu. A 64 page book on Jill Kempson’s Art Practice related to history of landscape painting in European Art History.
2007
The West Australian, Visual Arts, ‘Two Very Different Country Landscapes’, by Ric Spence, November 30, pg.7
ABC 720 Art Review, ‘Skyscapes’ by Nyanda Smith, December 15.
2006
On Campus, Mark Stewart, Murdoch University, Vol 21 No 2 Apr pg.7
Insite, ‘Master Technique’, by Nyana Smith 8 Autumn Edition pg. 47
Melbourne Art Fair Catalogue, p. 50 for Galerie Düsseldorf, Perth
2004
The West Australian, ‘Kempson Opens Book of Enlightenment’, by Simon Blond, June 5, 2004, pg.10-11
1995
Art and Australia,”Romancing Place’ by Robert Cook, December 1995
1994
FAR Vol.9 No.2, Apr/May 1994, p.17
Artlink, ‘Art and the Feminist Project’, by Stepehanie Britton, Vol.14 No. 1 Autumn 1994, p.35-86
1991
Artlink, ‘Natural and Unnatural Landscape, W.A. Italy,’ by Melissa Harpley, Vol.11, No.3 Spring 1991, pg.63-64
The Weekend Australian, ‘Affinity Reflects Pilgrims Progress’, by Ted Snell, 23 May 91
The West Australian, ‘Gods and Poetry in Italian Memories’, by David Bromfield, May 25, 1991, pg.7
Western Australian Art, ‘The Painted Image: Twenty Contemporary WA Painters’, edited by Ted Snell, No.1 1991, p.52-55
