Make, narrate...my curriculum vitae

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Artistic professional experience

Designer/maker/owner-
The Purple Hen House, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.

About  Lenni @The Purple Hen House...


Lenni's talents and skills extend to enabling and empowering others through creativity, storytelling , collaboration,  education and safe and fun creative activity.   Lenni's work is  motivated by authenticity, empathy, honesty, the satisfaction of empowering, connecting and collaborating with others to transform ideas into quality outcomes/solutions/products/experiences.She aims to affect positive transformation in people’s lives, the environment and communities that we live in.

Lenni has  extensive experience( 16 years +) in project management/management in visual art, health and education, in online course/ learning design and as a practicing visual artist.

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Services offered by Lenni @The Purple Hen House

  • Creativity workshops for individuals and groups who want to explore their own creativity and stories through art making
  • Project management- for leisure /health and community art projects
  • Coaching creatives on designing and delivering online courses.
  • Learning design for creative courses ( online and workshop /blended)
  • Research ( interest areas: performativity and identity through art practice, narrative, creativity and health, creativity and learning, storytelling and learning, storytelling and healing)
SOLO Exhibitions and collaborations
2020
May-June 
Home is where the protest is, Online craftivist protest about safety and privacy in home during COVID-19, protesting right to say no to in home inspections during COVID-19 while space I was living in was for sale.
January 
Illustrations for online learning and  human rights aged care project, for Daniella Greenwood and Associates.
 
2018
​July- August 2018 , Stitch-a-hug month, Craft Cubed 2018 , Craft Victoria satellite project.
2017
March 17-26- Castlemaine State Festival
Flowers for Oberon, Purple Hen House Studio, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
2014
March to April
My precious ( I remember) , Yack Station, Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
2009
Between, October, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Australia solo  work and collaboration with Helen Braun (Review Sub-Machine, Kent Wilson)
Axioms and Idioms, June, Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne Australia, with Melanie Wolfe
2006
Hang Ups, (solo), October, The Greenhouse Gallery, Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne.
2005
Wire in the Blood, (solo), July, Link Space Gallery, Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Selected group exhibitions
- COVID cancelled 2020
Australian National Brooch Show
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2017 Dogs in Art, 3-26 February, Backspace Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria , Australia.
2015 Exit: Brunswick Arts will never die 11 December, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2014
Two thousand and four, 10 Year anniversary Brunswick Arts Space, 17 October to 2 November, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Used, 11-28 April 2014,Central Gallery Nhil, Victoria, Australia.
2010- 2011 Of Snowflakes and Spacetime, October to February Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, Australia
2009 This is Brunswick Arts, Brunswick Street Gallery, January, Melbourne
2008 Totem: dolls with souls September to October Melbourne Fringe Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2007
Places of Being, September/October Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
This is Brunswick Arts, December, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
The Bigger Picture, November, Monash University, Melbourne
2006
depART, November, Monash University, Melbourne
I Heart SCU, August, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
selected curatorial/writing
2010
Curator, Little memories exhibition, Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne
Exhibition installation team, Breathe, by sculptor and installation artist Liz Henderson, Gasworks Park, Melbourne
Artist studio assistant and exhibition installation team, Kathy Temin, My Monument Black Cube, Anna Schwartz
2009
Studio assistant and and exhibition installation team, of Kathy Temin, Survey show at Heide Museum of Modern Art
2008
Designer of exhibition catalogue and author of exhibition essay, Helen Braun, Evolution, August Yarra Sculpture Gallery.
2007
Curator, Places of Being, Brunswick Arts Space Melbourne
2006
Co- curator,  I heart SCU, Monash University, Art and Design, 3rd year sculpture students, group exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
academic teaching/lecturing/EDUCATION DESIGN
Educational design consultant
Ongoing
-  Educational/ learning/curriculum design quality review
- Design for learning across modes( Online/ blended/ope/f2f)- learning /educational design services to higher education/healthcare/creatives plus industry interested in collaborative, learner centred , lifelong learning approaches to education and learning and development.
- Educational diagrams, illustrations, audio/visual learning materials for online courses/ open education resources (OER)/Phd thesis/reports/ research papers/blogs/H5P

Charles Sturt University, Learning Academy, Division of Student Learning
2016
Assessment - Graduate Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Monash University, Department of Art Theory, Faculty of Art and Design and Faculty of Arts
2008
Introduction to Visual Language,  Fine Arts  and Design
Modernism and the Avant Gardes: Fine Arts/Visual Arts
2009
Introduction to Visual Culture,  Arts/ Education/Science, Clayton Campus
2010
Introduction to Visual Language, Semester 1, 2010, Design and Arts
Contemporary Visual Culture in Film and Art, Semester 2 2010, Arts
2011
Introduction to Visual Culture, Semester 1, 2011, Arts
studio assistant
Kathy Temin: is a successful International artist based in Melbourne , Victoria whose works are included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of contemporary art. Lenni worked as her studio assistant:


  • April to December 2009, and September to November 2008,

  • January 2008, November 2007
artist run /community art spaces
Brunswick Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia -December 2007 to June 2010
Blindside Arts space, Melbourne, Australia -January 2007 to December 2007
craftivism/collaborations/community art events and activities et al

​2018
-Regional Arts Victoria, Artlands, Crafting the Merch- handcrafting scarves for Artlands 2018 conference merchandise.
- Stitching about Menstruation- contributed to an artist run project based in USA, -messages about issues around menstruation for Australian women were stitched onto cloth pads for a large art installation.
- April, 30 days of being socially active, craftivist project- hand stitching and posting social messages in local social spaces and writing letters and sending hand stitched emoji/gifts to friends.
- July- August 2018 , Stitch-a-hug month, Craft Cubed 2018 , Craft Victoria satellite project.

2017/2018
Participated in 5000 poppies projects - Making handcrafted, crocheted poppies for Victorian RSL Remembrance Day poppy brooch sales 2018.

2014
-Yarn bombing the Holbrook, submarine.  Handcrafted and contributed crocheted pieces for the HMAS Otway Yarn bombing project for the town of Holbrook, NSW Community arts project.
Collections

Ms R. Grove, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • My very soul demands you 2017. Crocheted viscose and stainless steel thread, and a page from a Jane Eyre novel, a repurposed tie clip, antique buttons.( An exquisite affair collection)
  • Daisy chain #1 ( soul sisters) 2015. Sterling silver and copper necklace.
    ( Daisy chain series)
Private collector, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • All at sea ( cat and me) 2016. Sterling silver and brass pendant and handcrafted chain/necklace. ( Cat and me series)
  • Cat in garden 2016. Sterling silver hand cut and pierced , patinated pendant on black leather cord necklace.  ( Cat and me series)
Ms C Robinson, Glenrowan, Victoria, Australia
  • Give me your answer do ( Daisy, daisy) 2017. Ring from Flowers for Oberon exhibition, the Betrayal collection.
Ms J. O'Hara, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia.
  • My story 2016. Sterling silver, copper and felt bracelet/cuff. Commissioned piece.
Ms L. Reader, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Lotus Flower ( slowly we unfurl- for Lee) necklace and pendant, from Words Don't come Easy series 2014.
  • Portrait of the wedded couple in an obvious Shakespeare play (2008) commissioned
  • Memory tree 2, (2012) Hand pierced silver pendant, commissioned
  • Roni the stylish, purple hen. The Purple Hen( Limited edition soft sculptures 2015)
Mr T. Steele, Mornington, Victoria Australia.
  • Esme the zany purple and turquoise hen
  • Doreen the cottage garden purple hen
The Purple Hens( Limited edition soft sculptures 2015)

R. Townsend, Bendigo Australia
  • Hen and rooster earring set ( 2015).
  • Rooster brooch(2015) .

Donated to Airenet Australia.
  • If I were a tree ( 2014) Silver pendant and chain,

Mr A.Karroum, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia.
  • All of the flowers by the side of the road (2013), Hand-pierced, silver pendant.Commissioned.

Private collector, Port Melbourne, Australia
  • A word is enough, remember(2009) Forgotten words from a collected book

Private collector,  Melbourne, Australia.
  • Between you +me +space (2009), wax and honey, kept and collected test tubes
 
Awards/Prizes

2006 Palazzi Award for Innovation and Excellence in Sculpture, Fine Arts, Monash University.
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