Jen
Valender

Jen Valender is a visual artist who was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and is based in Naarm Australia. Her practice is focused on creating work site-specifically that builds an embodied affinity on and with the landscape. She identifies visual art as an aesthetic language that has the powerful ability to complicate and contain multiple perspectives and histories simultaneously. Valender was awarded the Australia Region M&C Saatchi Group and Saatchi Gallery’s Art For Change Prize 2023 and has exhibited work locally and internationally including at Heide Museum of Modern Art; Ian Potter Museum of Art; Australian Centre for the Moving Image; Museum of Art and Culture & Multi-Arts Pavilion, Lake Macquarie; Collingwood Yards Art Precinct; Spier Light Art Festival, South Africa; WIRWIR Gallery, Berlin and Forum des images, Paris. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (Research) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and has recently collaborated with new born calves, house flies and a retired granite quarry.