Chancellor’s Art Prize winner draws on the Spirit of Country

Jennifer Rowe

Bachelor of Art and Design graduate

Bachelor of Art and Design graduate Jennifer Rowe won the Chancellor’s Art Prize for her artworks, Ocean Treasures and Black Duck Song.

“My artworks are about contemporary issues being addressed, highlighted and communicated through the use of natural or found materials which have no or very small impact on the environment,” Jennifer said.

Jennifer’s artworks will be exhibited as part of Southern Cross University’s Art Collection.

Black Duck Song uses driftwood, feathers, acrylic paint, ochre and jet to portray Indigenous songlines that run along the east coast of Australia. In the Bundjalung nation, where Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus is located, the song references Gnibi the black swan, namesake of the University’s Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples.