Biography
After graduating from Ilam School of Art in 1988 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jenna Packer went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History at the University of Canterbury. Through the 1990’s she lived in the UK and Morocco, and for several years in France. She spent time at the Glasgow Print Workshop, The Slade School of Art (London) and La Rouelle Studio (France). Jenna Packer is a full time artist, now living in Waitati, Otago, and has been exhibiting her work since 1990 both within New Zealand and abroad. She has been involved in several artist research trips and projects, including Paradise Lost, with Solander Gallery in 2018, which saw work touring New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Iceland, and Wai- The Water Project, with Ashburton Art Gallery in which toured the country in 2018/2019. Packer frequently engages in discussion and presentations of her work in Climate and Environmental forums, having an active interest in social history and the politics of climate change. Her work is held in private collections in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Canada, France and Italy.
Jenna Packer in her studio by Alan Dove
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​​CONTACT Jenna Packer email // scribeandscrim@gmail.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 / Paper Road, PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
2025 / Toro, Ashburton Art Gallery, NZ
2024 / Giltwood, Milford Galleries Queenstown, NZ
2023 / Stained Glass Window Commission, All Saints Church, Dunedin
2022 / Tract, Milford Galleries Dunedin, NZ
2021 / Utopiaroa, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2017 / Art of the Deal, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2015-16 / Unsettled; Making/Seeking Shelter, Tivoli, Waiheke Island
2015 / South Seas Idol, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2014 / State of Grace, Jonathan Grant Gallery, Auckland
2013 / States of Emergency, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2012 / Anchored, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2010 / Provisioning, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2009 / A History of Flight, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2008 / Plant, Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati
2007/ The Island, Solander, Wellington
2006 / The Island, Milnes Court Gallery, Port Chalmers, NZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 / Wonderland, Webbs Wellington
2024 / Terrain, Milford Galleries Queenstown Studio 18D
2024 / Terrain, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2024 / Coast, PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
2022 / Paradise Lost, Centre of Cultural and Fine Art Hafnarborg, Iceland
2022 / Toitū Te Whenua, Aratoi Museum, Masterton,NZ
2022 / 23 / Summer Show, Studio 18D, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2022 / Studio 18D, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2020 / Paradise Lost, Canberra, Sydney Australia
2021 / The Arrow, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2020 / Show and Tell, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2020 / The Earl Street Journal, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2020 / Flora, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2019 / Paradise Lost, Pitea Museum, Sweden
2019 / Paradise Lost, Solander Gallery, Wellington Christchurch
2019 / The Water Project, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
2019 / He Manawa Whenua: He Puna Wai, WATER\WAY, Aratoi Museum, Masterton
2019 / Wai Water Wanaka, Festival of Colour, Wanaka,
2019 / New Works, Milford Galleries Queenstown
The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown
Show & Tell, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2018 / Water Project, Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton,
2017/ 18 / Wunderkammer, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2017 / Small Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2017 / Te Waipounamu, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2017 / Anything Could Happen, Yu Gallery, Yu Yuan, Shanghai, China
2017 / JW Smeaton Summer Exhibition, Otago Art Society, Dunedin
2017 / Navigators, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2016 / 17 / Aurora, Milford Galleries Dunedin, NZ
2016 / New Compendium, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2016 / 47° South Rakiura: Five Artists in Stewart Island, PG Gallery 192, Chch
2016 / The Wakatipu Chronicle, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2016 / The Review, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2016 / Show and Tell, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2016 / 47° South Rakiura: Five Artists in Stewart Island, Oban, Stewart Island,
2015- / 16 / Aurora, Milford Galleries Dunedin, Small & Key, Milford Galleries
2015 / Art at Carrick, Carrick Winery, Central Otago
2015 / Winter Exhibition, Jonathan Grant Gallery, Auckland
2015 / Small and Key, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2015 / Spring Catalogue, Milford Galleries Queenstown,
2015 / Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2014 / Significant Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2013-14 / The Earl Street Journal, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2014 / Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2013 / The Review, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2013 / New Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2013 / The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2012-13 Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
The Earl Street Journal, Milford Galleries Queenstown,
2012 / The Surreal, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2011 / /12 Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
2011 / The Royal Queenstown Easter Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2010 / Winter Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2009 / Southern Landscape, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2008 / Etched in Memory, PaperGraphica, Christchurch
2008 / Opening, Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati
2007 / The Paper Show, The Artists’ Room, Dunedin
Spring Exhibition, Anderson’s Park Art Gallery, Invercargill
2007 / The Knowne Worlde Illuminated, Salisbury House Art Gallery, Dunedin,
2007 / Impressed Atatoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton
2006 / 10 / The Print-makers’ Studio, Dunedin, NZ
1997 / Féte de Papier, Maison de Josianne, Génolac, France
1995 / Three Printmakers, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch
Fishing for Camels in the Bush, Arthouse Gallery, Dunedin
1994 / Exposure II (Invited Dunedin Artists), Applied Art New Zealand, ChCh
1994 / Nakhodka / Dunedin / Otaru, Sister Cities Art Exhibition, Otaru, Japan
1990 / Five Printmakers, Left Bank Art Gallery, Greymouth,
1990 / NZ Women Show, Arthouse Gallery, Dunedin
1990 / Printmakers Exhibition, Aigantigue Art Gallery, Timaru
1990 / Prints: Jenna Packer and Neave Fraser-Davies, CSA Gallery, Chch
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EDUCATION
1996 / La Rouelle Studio (printmaking) (3 months), France
1997 / The Slade School of Art (Fresco), London, UK
1992 / Glasgow Print Workshop (Printmaking), Glasgow, Scotland
1989 / BA (History) (First-Class Honours), University of Canterbury, Chch
1988 / Bachelor Fine Arts, Ilam School of Art, Chch, NZ
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