JENNY TOYE CV
Academic Qualifications: |
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| 2004/08 | Currently studying an M.A at Monash University Melbourne |
| 1996 | Grad Cert Enterprise Management, Swinburne University of Technology. |
| 1993 | Post Graduate Study, Visual Arts, Monash University Gippsland. |
| 1989 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Monash University Gippsland. |
| 1984 | Graduate Diploma in Graphics, Hawthorn Institute of Education. |
| 1982 | Diploma of Technical Teaching, Hawthorn Institute of Education. |
Relevant Employment History: |
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| 1991-2008 | Lecturer and sub team leader of Art Department - East Gippsland Institute of TAFE. |
| 1990-1991 | Executive Officer, Arts Network East Gippsland. |
| 1979-1989 | Teaching positions at Monash University Gippsland, Hawthorn Teachers College, and various Secondary Colleges in Victoria. |
Recent projects: |
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| 2008 | Event Manager and Concept Designer. Public Tea Party & Parade, Bairnsdale’s CBD part Feast on East, food & wine festival. |
| 2007 | Art Director. Feast on East, food & wine festival. Exhibition Art & Food, Bairnsdale Art Gallery, exhibiting artist & mentoring of two emerging artists. |
| 2007 | The Long Now, participation in making an ordinary house into an art house, a group show at Nowa Nowa. |
| 2006 | Won Sculpture Prize $10,000 from East Gippsland Institute ofTafe. |
| 2005 | Yallambee Stud, Marquee at Flemington Racecourse, project design and execution in partnership with ETC Graphic design. |
| 2005 | 7th Garma Festival, Gulkula, Gove Peninsula, Arnhem Land. Working with the Yolngu women in the gathering and sharing of knowledge in one of the oldest living cultures on earth. Garma is an event which fosters greater understanding between indigenous and non indigenous people within the Yothu Yindi relationship. |
| 2004 | Panorama, solo exhibition of Paintings at the Farmers Arms Hotel, Lindenow. East Gippsland. |
| 2004 | Meeting Place, Regional Arts Australia Conference. Visual designer for Maydale pavilion a huge tin shed and other venues around the Horsham showgrounds which housed 2000 delegates, lines of lit sculptures and huge corrugated tissue paper lights, signage and stage props. |
| 2002 | Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival, Concept designer/ visual designer for “On Salty Ground” an environmental performance based on the issues of Salinity. It was performed on the Loch lawns at night on the banks of the Murray River. The performance included multicultural, indigenous and non-ethnic groups from the Mildura area and performed over two nights with 130 dancers, choreographed by Anna Smith. |
| 2001 | Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival, Artist-in-Residence, ‘River Lights Project’, delivering community workshops in the construction of large-scale lanterns for Mildura’s CBD, incorporating iconographic elements of Sunraysia’s multi-cultural history and celebrated life on the river. |
| 2000 | Artist participant in the Melbourne Fringe Festival Architecture Exhibition at Docklands, creating a series of screens 20 metres long and 2.5 metres high from recycled building materials. |
| 1999 | Project Co-ordinator, Australia Council funded ‘Panels Project’ working with six ex-patriot communities living in Australia to create cultural panels for public installation in Mallacoota, VIC. |
| 1998 | Australia Council Professional Development grant to delivered workshops to Aboriginal communities in the Kimberly and the Pilbara, WA, in timber carving, etching and resin inlay. |
| 1997 | Artist-in-Residence, ‘Uniting our Rural Communities’, projects included props for a travelling road and a seating project for five rural towns. |