C.V and Bio

Machine Sewn with Watercolour Paint Wash on Calico
Jenny has always been interested in working with handicrafts and painting, but it has only been in recent years that she has followed a path using traditional handicrafts to develop objects of fine art. The skill she has gained making practical garments over many years, has allowed her to apply that skill, especially with knitting, embroidery, and machine sewing, in a way she never envisaged. Of course all of her recent art works have absolutely no practical use, but are so much fun and more challenging to create, than just making clothes, although that is sure to continue, keeping the family warm, clothed and happy. Nowadays the impractical art works demand her attention more than garment making.

Curriculum Vitae
Creative work experience and education

Jennifer Dawn Bielawski
  • Born: 22/09/1946
  • Address: 1830 Otaraoa Road
  • RD 7
  • Inglewood 4387
  • Phone: 06 756 5518
  • Email: bielawski@ruralinzone.net
Education / Work Shops Attended
Western Institute of Technology Taranaki:

2011
Second Semester
Subjects in progress:
  • Senior Dissertation
  • Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
First Semester
Subjects completed:
  • Critical practice
  • Drawing C
  • Painting C
2010
Bachelor of visual Arts
Subjects completed:
  • Printmaking C
  • Sculpture C
  • Independent Study
2009
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Subjects completed:
  • Sense of Place
  • Professional Practice
  • Drawing B
  • Printmaking B
  • Sculpture B
  • Independent Study (1)
  • Independent Study (2)
2008
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Subjects completed:
  • 20th Century Art History
  • Methods in Research
  • Visual Image
  • Drawing A
  • Painting A
  • Printmaking A
  • Sculpture A
  • Digital Photography
2007
Certificate in Visual Arts
Five subjects:
  • Contextual Studies
  • Design
  • Colour Theory and Painting
  • Drawing
  • Print Media
Hawera High School Night Classes:
  • 2000 – 2003, Painting – Tutor: Juliet Newell
  • 1989 Life drawing – Tutor: Marianne Muggeridge
  • 1989 School Certificate Art – Tutor: Tim Chadwick.
1974 - 2003 Workshops:
  • Spinning and Weaving classes, Taranaki.
  • Yarn dying using natural plant dye. Weekend workshop, Kaponga, Taranaki.
  • Shop Window Display. Weekend workshop, Hawera.
  • Maori Kete Weaving, weekend held on Marae, Oakune.
  • Weekend Watercolour Painting Workshop. Doris Lusk- Tutor.
  • Creative Knitting weekend course, Tutor: Mary Walker Phillips (President World Crafts Council USA) 
  • Life Drawing, weekend workshop Stratford.
Creative Work Experience:
  • Show Work at Realtart Gallery New Plymouth.
  • Spinning, designing and knitting clothes for family and competitions.
  • Designing and sewing clothes, including two Wedding dresses.
  • Landscaped and maintained our own large country gardens, two have been over an acre.
  • Designed and helped construct Floats for the Hawera pastoral show parades, on behalf of the Hawera
    Maternity Hospital gained first prize one year, second prize two years, and third prize one year.
  • Christmas paintings and designed displays in children’s wards and other hospital wards at Christmas for many years.
  • Designed and assembled display court on behalf of Country Women’s Institute, for Hawera Pastoral Show, First prize.
  • Helped design Hawera Hospital Balls decoration for halls, painted large Murals as part of those designs.
  • “Dairy Expo” Hawera, display court for Lactose company.
  • Painted mural on wall of Coffee Bar in Hawera.
  • Bridal Bouquets for family weddings, flower arrangements in church and reception for weddings. Wreaths for funerals and ANZAC days.
  • Special occasion decorated iced cakes including several wedding cakes.
  • Worked for Lovells Florists Hawera as a teenager.
Qualifications:
  • 1968 New Zealand Registered Nurse.
  • 1970 New Zealand Registered Midwife.   
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