LATEST NEWS:
The year so far...

* I have just received notice that my painting "Bodywork" has been chosen as a finalist in the Corangamarah Art Prize July 2010


  * I am thrilled to say my painting, Hope Strength and Beauty is a Finalist in the Cancer Council Awards
2010


read a write up on me and my work in the Danish online magazine CITYHOUR
cityhour

2010 is proving to be off to a great start for Janne she so far has been a finalist in

The March Edition of the Australian Artist Magazine 
  

* My painting Bodywork has been selected as a finalist in the Calleen Art Awards, Cowra Regional Gallery

* The Goddess Movement was selected as a finalist in "She" at the Walker st Gallery Dandenong.

*I was invited to exhibit at the Mornington Pennisula Art Show



2009

*I have been invited to participate in a group exhibition at the GEELONG REGIONAL PUBLIC GALLERY, date and details to be confirmed.

*My painting "Self Portrait By Numbers" has been selected as a finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait Prize.

*2 of my paintings have been selected as finalists in the Mortimore Art Prize, a 3 month travelling Exhibition starting at Dubbo, then onto Sydney and finishing in Canberra. My paintings choen were, "A Red State of Mind" and "The Goddess Movement".

* I have been invited to participate in the "JAMES FARRELL SELF PORTRAIT PRIZE", its by invitation only and is heled at the Castlemaine Regional Gallery.



Artist Statement.

“As an artist I love and appreciate the art of body ink, so much so I was compelled to create a series of paintings of tattooed people”. - Janne Kearney

A painter of stories, people and life... that is how Janne Kearney describes herself, her recent body of work is not just paintings of tattooed bodies, its more than that, it chronicles tattooed people’s lives.

She has an enormous respect for tattoo artists and a fascination for tattoo art and the mystical quality it possesses.

Tattoos can evoke many things in different people from love and adoration to fear and loathing, they can console, empower and beautify.  Her art asks the viewer to disregard preconceived perceptions of people, society and at times reality. Each painting invites you to be astonished, laugh, reminisce, reflect, and contemplate. Her paintings are guaranteed to pack a wallop and evoke emotions; not only has she painted artwork that decorates bodies but enhances the sitter’s souls. Her work could be described as iconoclastic...it challenges or overturns traditional established dogma or conventions.

Gold, silver and metallic leaf and a range of metallic paints often feature in her work. Her preferred tools of trade are oil on canvas applied by brush, palette knife and homemade tools.