September 6, 2025
Congratulations to Victoria Reichelt and Jacqueline Hennessy who have been announced as finalists in the 2025 Portia Geach Memorial Award. Named in memory of artist and commentator Portia Geach, this prestigious annual prize is presented to an Australian woman artist for a portrait painting of a man or woman distinguished…
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May 10, 2025
Works by Jacqueline Hennessy, Robert Magherbe and Guido Maestri can be seen in the 2025 Salon des Refusés exhibition at S.H. Ervin Gallery. Featured in the exhibition is Jacqueline Hennessy’s portrait of fellow artist Les Rice ‘Les (The end is only a beginning)’ (Salon Archibald selection), Robert Malherbe’s ‘Lithgow Landscape’…
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October 25, 2024
Congratulations to Lucy Culliton, Jacqueline Hennessy and Victoria Reichelt who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. The biennial award, celebrates realistic portraiture by Australian artists in memory of artist, patron and avid supporter of the arts, Shirley Hannan. Selected works must accurately portray…
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May 11, 2023
Works by Jacqueline Hennessy and Robert Malherbe can be seen in the 2023 Salon des Refusés exhibition at S.H. Ervin Gallery. Featured in the exhibition is Robert Malherbe’s portrait of Australian poet, Sarah Holland-Batt and landscape-based work ‘Tree and lake 2’and Jacqueline Hennessy’s portrait of film and television director, Shannon…
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September 2, 2022
Congratulations to Jacqueline Hennessy who has been announced as a finalist in the 2022 Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize with her work, ‘The Judging (self portrait)’. Named in memory of artist Portia Geach, this prestigious prize celebrates excellence in portraiture painting by Australian women artists. The Portia Geach Memorial Art…
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October 22, 2021
Congratulations to Jacqueline Hennessy who has been announced as a finalist in the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize with her work, ‘Untitled (what happens to the heart)’. Named in memory of artist Portia Geach, this prestigious prize celebrates excellence in portraiture painting by Australian women artists. Winners will be…
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July 15, 2021
Jacquleine Hennessy’s solo exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery, ‘Still Life’, features in Artist Profile online. The article reflects on the body of work created during the artist’s Tweed Residency. ‘Still Life’ is current at Tweed Regional Art Gallery until 25 July, 2021. To read the Artist Profile article, please…
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March 24, 2021
Jacqueline Hennessy’s ‘Still Life’ is now open at Tweed Regional Gallery. This show is the outcome of the Tweed Regional Gallery – National Art School MFA Residency Award. Whilst producing this new series of works in the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Jacqueline took inspiration from the re-creation…
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June 30, 2020
Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to announce Jacqueline Hennessy as the newest addition to the protégé program. The Sydney-based artist references photographic images of her own body to create paintings of ghostly, female figures. Produced through a dedicated process of applying layer upon layer of sepia-toned paint, Hennessy creates a…
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