Jenny Pollak
Jenny Pollak has been a Life Study guest teacher at TBSSS since 2017.
Jenny is a full time practising artist and poet working primarily in photography, sculpture and installation. She has held many one person shows and taken part in numerous group exhibitions and artist residencies.
In 2009 she received an Australia Council New Work Grant, which allowed her to create several bodies of work as Artist in Residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
In 2011 she won both the Facade Project (a National Public Art Award at the Visual Art Centre, La Trobe University, Bendigo, with her 7 panel photographic work, Threshold); and the People’s Choice Award in the exhibition Lovelace, at the Powerhouse Museum, with her large paper installation A Brief History of Time. Also in 2011, the National Gallery of Canberra acquired her ceramic sculpture New World Order – Terra Australis. She has also won the Hunters Hill sculpture Prize; the Fairfield City Festival of the Arts sculpture prize; and she has received an Honourable Mention in the Bowness Photography Prize; the Hornsby Art Prize; and the Northern Beaches Art Prize for her photographic work, as well as being Highly Commended in the Now Contemporary Art Prize for a 2 channel video work.
Jenny has won, and been shortlisted for numerous poetry prizes both here and overseas. In 2024 she published her first poetry collection, Clarion, with Liquid Amber Press.
