Janet Fieldhouse

Janet’s ceramic hand-built forms acknowledge the Torres Strait traditions of navigation, living off the sea and the land, and women’s traditional practices such as weaving body adornments for ceremony and scarification.

Janet was awarded the inaugural Indigenous Ceramic Art Award from Shepparton Art Museum in 2007, and again in 2012. In 2017 Janet was recipient of the Australia Council residency at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, USA, and in 2019 was awarded the Premier’s Prize for Excellence for her exhibition at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Janet has exhibited widely throughout Australia over the past decade including recently in The National: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2019), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2018-19) and Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2015).

Her artworks are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australian Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, and the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, USA amongst others. Janet currently lives and works in Cairns, Queensland.

Source: ViviVivien Anderson Gallery