Jessica Phippen                                                                                                    

Born in 1997 in Melbourne, Australia
Resides and works in Cobram, Australia

Education:

2022: Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) Honours 1st Class, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018: Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Selected exhibitions:

2024         Here’s Something I’ve Been Wanting To Show You, Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022         Rendering: Jewellery and Objects, Selected for Craft Contemporary, Assembly Point, Melbourne, Australia
2022         Fine Art Honours, MFA & Art in Public Space Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 
2021         2021 Arts Activated, Accessible Arts, New South Wales, Australia
2021         Small Art, The Track Gallery, Mount Waverley, Australia
2020         Karinya Duramana, Tablelands Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia  
2019         ‘O’ Feelings Places Times Spaces, TempContemp Gallery, Brunswick, Australia
2019         Fledgling on the Line, The Old Bar Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2019         Make or Break, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019         Cataclysmic Delight, Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
2019         Gold and Silversmithing Auction, Storey Hall, Melbourne Australia
2018         Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018         Wondernamel, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018         House Trained, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2018         Held in the Hand, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017         Footscray Tertiary Art Prize, VU Metro West Gallery,  Footscray, Australia
2017         Gold and Silversmithing Auction, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2016         Mobjects, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Selected collections:

Jessica Phippen features in various national and international private collections.

Grants/awards/residencies:

2020         Emerging Artist Grant, Arts out West, Bathurst, Australia
2018         Larsen Jewellery Design Scholarship, Larsen Jewellery, Melbourne, Australia
2018         George Alexander Foundation Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2017         Footscray Tertiary Art Prize (selected), Victoria University Metro West Gallery, Footscray, Australia

Press/publications:

“Here’s Something I’ve Been Wanting to Show You: Exhibition catalogue” Melbourne: 2024
“Rendering: Jewellery and Objects: Exhibition catalogue” Melbourne: 2022
“Fine Art Graduate Exhibition: Exhibition catalogue” Melbourne: 2022
“Side by Side: Exhibition catalogue” Melbourne: 2018
“Footscray Tertiary Art Prize: Exhibition catalogue” Footscray: 2017

Professional contributions:

2020: Curatorial Panelist: TempContemp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2019: Creative Producer, Darebin City Council, Northcote, Australia.
2015: Creative Producer, New Academic Street Project, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.