Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello is an award winning multidisciplinary artist of Aboriginal (Southern Arrernte), Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Her works are held in major private and public collections in Australia, the UK, USA, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. She won the  2013 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the Bay of Fires Art Prize 2016, and Wollatuka Art Prize 2012. Jennifer received Canberra Critics Circle Awards for both Literature and Visual Arts and received Creative Arts Fellowships from artsACT and the Australia Council for the Arts. Jennifer is an Australian Design Award Honouree 2015, and was recognised for her community arts and cultural  development work with an ACT International  Womens Day Award 2010, inclusion on the ACT Centenary Honour Role 2013, ACT Womens Honour Role 2014 and ACT Senior Australian of the Year nomination in 2018. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia in June 2022 for services to the creative and visual arts.

Her poetry, short stories and essays have been widely published journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Her work is included in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, she has judged both the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, including the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Literature, and represented Australia as a First Nations artist and writer at the Festival of Pacific Arts in Palau 2004 and the Solomon Islands in 2012. Jennifer works from her studio at Canberra Glassworks.