About Jennis

Artist Biography

Jennis Ardern is a multidisciplinary artist based in North Brisbane.  Jennis is recognised for her colourful landscape paintings and participatory installations. Care for the environment and her community run through her practice. Jennis' paintings and collages are welcoming and use heightened, saturated, and bright colours. By translating real and remembered places into fanciful collages, she evokes memories of child-like wonder. She brings together disparate landscapes and temporalities through bold sweeps of organic linework, interlacing her works with the essence of both her Anglo-Australian and Māori identities. 

Jennis’ collaborative and interactive installations harness co-creation strategies and often invite viewers to touch or keep adding to the work. Her artwork is equally spirited and peaceful. She invites viewers to explore their identification with the landscape or to uncover something often forgotten within: a connection to the earth, sky, and water of the places where we stand.