About

Jennifer Rosnell is an emerging Australian artist. Living and working in Collaroy on Sydney’s Northern beaches, she has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales.

With a professional background in graphic design and teaching drawing, she is a four time finalist with the National Portia Geach Memorial Portrait prize in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. A finalist in prizes such as the Percival Portrait Prize, The National Emerging Art Prize ACB Selects, The Little Things Art Prize and the Mosman Art Prize 2022. Her practice is based on years of life drawing sessions at Julian Ashton Art School in the Rocks and Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Sydney.

Her current focus is on her original oil portrait paintings, sunbather’s, beach scenes, ferry seascapes and fish market series.

Awards & Exhibitions

• 2024 Michael Reid Gallery - Northern Beaches
  Summer Salon Group Exhibition
  December 2024 - January 2025

• 2024 Featured in (Art Scene) Galah Magazine - Issue 11
  November 2024

• 2024 Finalist
  MAP Mudgee Portrait Prize
  Mudgee Arts Precinct - Mudgee, NSW

• 2024 Finalist
  The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
  S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW

• 2024 Michael Reid Gallery - Northern Beaches
  Creative Open Group Exhibition
  July - August 2024

• 2024 Sydney Affordable Art Fair, NSW
  with Toowoomba Gallery
  13th-16th June

• 2024 Brisbane Affordable Art Fair, QLD
  with Toowoomba Gallery
  9th-12th May

• 2024 Pittwater Artist Trail
  Group Exhibition Newport & Open Studio Collaroy, NSW

• 2024 Finalist ‘Inside This Box’ Group Exhibition
  The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

• 2024 Featured in Home Beautiful magazine Feb issue
  ’Local Australian Artists to buy from now’

• 2023 Finalist
  The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
  S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW

• 2023 Finalist Hornsby Art Prize
  Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre
  Hornsby, NSW

• 2023 Finalist
  The Little Things Art Prize
  Saint Cloche Gallery - Paddington, NSW

• 2023 Finalist - Group Exhibition
  40u40 SketchCo Gallery - Surry Hills, NSW

• 2023 Artist in Residence
  Simpson Cottage Bundeena, NSW

• 2023 Pittwater Artist Trail
  Group Exhibition & Open Studio Collaroy, NSW

• 2023 Affordable Art Fair Sydney
  with Toowoomba Art Gallery

• 2023 “High Tide’ Group Exhibition
  Sketch & Co Gallery, Surry Hills NSW

• 2023 Artists of Mosman: 2088
  Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW

• 2023 ‘Untitled’ Group Exhibition
  The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

• 2023 Finalist
  ‘Inside This Box’ Group Exhibition
  The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

• 2022 Finalist
  MAP Mudgee Portrait Prize
  Mudgee Arts Precinct - Mudgee, NSW

• 2022 Winner Peoples Choice
  The Mosman Art Prize
  Mosman Art Gallery - Mosman, NSW

• 2022 Finalist
  The Little Things Art Prize
  Saint Cloche Gallery - Paddington, NSW

• 2022 Group Exhibition
  Incognito Art Show - Surry Hills, NSW

• 2022 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne VIC
  with Toowoomba Art Gallery

• 2022 Semi-Finalist
  The Darling Portrait Prize -
  The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT

• 2022 Finalist
  The Percivals Portrait Prize,
  Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD

• 2022 Finalist ‘Inside This Box’
  Group Exhibition
  The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

• 2021 Finalist ‘National Emerging Art Prize, ACB Selects’
  Group Exhibition
  Michael Reid Gallery,
  Northern Beaches Online exhibition

• 2021 Finalist
  The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
  S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW

• 2021 Finalist Mini Series Art Prize
  The Corner Store Gallery, Orange NSW

• 2021 Group Exhibition
  ‘Feathers & Dreams’
  Northern Beaches Gallery, Cromer NSW

• 2020 Finalist
  The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award
  S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney NSW