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Art Exhibitions

March 23 ‘Under the Covers’ Textile mixed media, Gaslighting Art Exhibition, https://www.gaslightingart.com/art/underthecovers

March 23 ‘Chemo’ Photograph, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland UK

January 2023 ‘The Womb That Was’, Photograph, Artist’s Responding to… Contemporary art, culture and activism’ Magazine, Edition 5, Magazine 2023 https://www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk/

2022

2022 April Artist of the Month, solo exhibition, Rural Arts, Thirsk, North Yorkshire UK https://www.ruralarts.org/whats-on/exhibitions/

2022 March ‘Blood Red Rose’ lino cut print, Let Them Eat Cake 3, Base Camp, Middlesbrough, Teesside, UK

2022 March ‘Accomplished’, ‘Edith Sitwell’, Inspired by Yorkshire Writers, Northern Fringe, Queens Mill, Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK

2021

2021 October ‘Accomplished’, ‘Edith Sitwell’, Inspired by Yorkshire Writers, Northern Fringe Gallery, Creative Art Hub, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, UK

2021 September ‘Accomplished’, ‘Edith Sitwell’, Inspired by Yorkshire Writers, Northern Fringe Gallery, Wakefield Art Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

2021 September ‘North Sea Coast’, New Mills Art Festival, New Mills, Derbyshire, UK Jennifer Weston — New Mills Festival

2021 August ‘The Dreaming’ The De Mowbray Song Book, Courthouse Gallery, Rural Arts, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, UK

2021 May ‘Ra: A Contemporary Celebration’ The New Greening: Social Art Award, Social Art Awards, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany Ra: A Contemporary Celebration – Applications (social-art-award.org)

2021 March ‘Sunset Series’ Digital images, Collaboration with Trilogy Ensemble at Helmsley Arts Centre, North Yorkshire, UK

2021 January Moth, Lino Cut print, Moth Migration Project, Denver Botanic Gardens, CO, USA.

2021 January ‘North Sea Coast,’ Scenes of Scarborough, commission from Scarborough Borough Council, North Yorkshire, UK Scenes From Scarborough – Discover Yorkshire Coast

2020

2020 December ‘Erasure,’ Haus-a-rest, Environment Issue 8, Instagram @haus_a_rest Issue 8 – Exhibition – Environment — HAUS-A-REST (haus-a-rest.com)

2020 November ‘Stay At Home,’ Being Human A Festival of the Humanities, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK

2020 October ‘Home,’ Kensington and Chelsea Art Week as part of ‘Little Voice’ online exhibition London, UK. https://www.little-voices.co.uk/

2020 September ‘Body in the Earth,’ Haus a rest Landscape as part of Issue 5, Instagram @haus-a-rest Body as landscape exhibition — HAUS-A-REST (haus-a-rest.com)

2020 July ‘Body in the Woods,’ FrikiFish Art prize, Art Magazine, Barcelona, Spain. The Confinement Chronicle | FrikiFish | Art & Creativity in Barcelona

2020 July ‘Wombwell 2,’ Fronteer Art, Online exhibition. @fronteerart

2020 May ‘Wombwell 1,’ The Art of Caring Exhibition online, St George’s Hospital Tooting, London, UK. http://www.artofcaring.org.uk/

2020 March ‘Bee Happy,’ @Lockdown Collective, Online Exhibition.

2020 January ‘And the Story Unfolds,’ Housekeeping exhibition, Jeannie Avent Gallery, Dulwich, London, UK.

2020 January ‘Heavy; the weight of patriarchy,’ A Cabinet of Curiosities, Whitby Museum, Whitby, North Yorks, UK.

2020 January ‘Accomplished,’ Anne Bronte p200, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2019

2019 December ‘Beach Morning,’ Digital photographs, Living Photography Exhibition, Leeds, North Yorks, UK.

2019 December ‘Body in the Woods,’ Social Art Awards, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany. https://social-art-award.org/award2019?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=941

2019 October ‘Healing Hands,’ ‘Crucified Jewel,’ ‘Ancient Landscape’, Goth Weekend, Krampus and Winter Ghosts exhibitions, Whitby, North Yorks, UK.

2019 September ‘Noctua Fimbriata,’ Moth Migration Project, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, Australia.

2019 September ‘Mackerel’, ‘North Sea Fish,’ ‘Significantly Small’, ‘Seeker of Knowledge’, New Mills Art Festival, Derbyshire, UK.

2019 August ‘Dysfunctional Object’, Northern Fringe, 35 Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, UK.

2019 May ‘Noctua Fimbriata,’ Moth Migration Project Bundaberg and

Gympie Regional Galleries, Queensland, Australia.

2019 May ‘Miniature prints’, Cleveland Way, Inspired by Gallery, Danby, North Yorks, UK.

2019 May ‘Body in the Woods,’ Limbo, SEAS Gallery, Brighton, UK.

2019 April ‘Significantly Small’, ‘Seeker of Knowledge,’ Made to Measure, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2019 March ‘Mackerel,” North Sea Fish,’ Pannet Gallery, Whitby, North Yorks, UK.

2019 April ‘On the Rag,’ Queerology; Heavy Souls, Emergency Gallery, Vevey, Switzerland.

2019 February ‘Not a Love Song,’ Yoko Ono, Arising; A Call, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK.

2019 February ‘Spring Lamb’, Open Exhibition, Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorks, UK.

2019 February Drawing the Line, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2018

2018 December ‘Modern Family, Fleur Dans Bleu, Blood Red Rose,’ The Steel Rooms Gallery, Brigg, Lincolnshire, UK.

2018 December ‘Womb Well 1 and 2,’ Dark to Light; Hope in a Hopeless Place, 35 Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, UK.

2018 November ‘Where are you now?’ 1568 Sawdust Hearts Project, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2018 September ‘Wombwell 1’, ‘Wombwell 2’, ‘Spring Lamb’, West Studios, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.

2018 September ‘Noctua Fimbriata,’ Moth Migration Project, Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre, St. Andrews, NB, Canada.

2018 July ‘Hyles Iineata’, Moth Migration Project, Heard Natural Science Museum, McKinney, TX, USA.

2018 July ‘Modern Family,’ Flourish at Bloom Festival, York, UK.

2018 July ‘Sizzl’; An exhibition about collage, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2018 May ‘Loki,’ ‘Cernunnos,’ ‘Robber Fly,’ ‘Modern Family,’ MGC, Contemporary Print Collection, Manhattan Graphics Centre, New York, NY, USA

2018 March ‘Modern family,’ Nasty Women Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2018 February ‘Dark Skies Jewellery Collection,’ Dark Skies exhibition, Inspired by Gallery, Danby Moors Centre, North Yorks Moors, UK.

2018 February ‘Loki’, 100 Sawdust Hearts, Untangled Threads Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2017

2017 December ‘Seeker of Knowledge’, ‘Barguest’, Folk Horror Festival, Whitby, UK.

2017 December ‘Barguest’, ‘Loki1 & 2’, ‘Seeker of Knowledge’, ‘You You You 1 &2’ ‘Alternative Yule,’ as part of Whitby Krampus Run, Whitby, UK.

2017 November ‘Anti-Selfie, Refusing to Pose’, Photographs, Woman Stanley Exhibition, Warrington, Cheshire, UK.

2017 September ‘Walk This Way’ Nasty Women Exhibition, Stour Space Gallery, Hackney, London, UK.

2017 August ‘Clam Shell,’ Wish you Were Here, Postcard Exhibition, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK.

2017 June-September ‘Jewels for the Summer,’ Summer Exhibition, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK.

2017 May ‘Jewels from the Sea,’ Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2017 May ‘Blood Red Rose’, Framework Exhibition, The Old Red Bus Station, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.

2017 February ‘Ammonite,’ Postcards from the Jurassic, Grejezik Gallery, Scarborough, UK.

2017 January-February ‘Little Lamb,’ East Coast Open, Scarborough Art Gallery, North Yorks, UK.

2017 January-February ‘Walk This Way,’ Maps exhibition, Coastival Festival, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2016

2016 November ‘Evangelists,’ Scarborough Hospital, North Yorks, UK.

2016 September-December ‘Jewels from the Sea,’ Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2016 August ‘Nuthatch series,’ ‘Fleur dans noir, blur et orange,’ Triton Gallery, Sledmere House, North Yorks, UK.

2016 July-August ‘Little Lamb’, ‘Sheep’, ‘Lady Turkey’, Animals exhibition, West Studios, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.

2016 June ‘Gods own County’, Photography exhibition, Weston Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.

2016 June “Face to Face,” Crescent Arts, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

2015

2015 August-September ‘Clam,’ ‘Dog Whelk1,’ ‘Dog Welk 2,’ Wish you Were Here, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorks, UK.

Awards and Prizes

Winner of ‘My North Yorkshire’ photography prize Dec 2020 with ‘Selfie on the Moors,’ Cultural Strategy for North Yorkshire, commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council with support from Arts Council of England

Nominated for the FrikiFish Art magazine Art prize July 2020 with ‘Body in the Woods,’ FrikiFish Art prize, Art Magazine, Barcelona, Spain. https://frikifish.com/the-confinement-chronicle-online-exhibition/

Nominated for the Social Art Award Dec 2019 with the screen print ‘Body in the Woods,’ Social Art Awards, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany. https://social-art-award.org/award2019?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=941

Publications and Broadcasts

2023 January ‘The Womb that Was’ photograph and prose, Artists Responding to… Contemporary Art, Culture and Activism, Issue 5

https://www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk/

2022 January ‘As They Grabbed Me My Soul Left MY Body’ Pages 41-42 Artists Responding to… Contemporary Art, Culture and Activism, Issue 1 Magazine Winter 22 https://www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk/shop-1

2021 August ‘The Dreaming’ digital image and prose, The De Mowbray Song Book, Edited by Benjamin Ellis

2020 December ‘Body in the Woods’, page 159, The Social Art Award 2019. We are the People – Peaceful Revolutions Edition No. 2, Publisher: Institute for Art and Innovation e.V.  Online publication: SAA-2019_book_FA_Spreads_LR.pdf (social-art-award.org)

2020 August ‘Selfie 1&2,’ ‘Refusing to Pose,’ digital image and prose, The Mass online magazine UK, https://www.the-mass.com/august-2020

2020 May ‘In the Beginning’ Screen play, The Mass online magazine UK, https://www.the-mass.com/may-2020 and Adirondack Center for Writing NY, USA https://adirondackcenterforwriting.org/2020/08/14/in-the-beginning-by-jennifer-weston/

2020 Spring ‘Body in the Woods’, Screen print, Women: Inspiring Quotes and Artistic Responses, 50 Women Artists, Edited by Nicola Wild. https://www.womenartbook.com/shop-2

2020 January, ‘Accomplished’ mixed media and prose, Anne Bronte 200 Art Book, Edited by Lindsey Tyson. http://lindseytyson.com/shop/anne-bronte-200-art-book

2020 January, ‘And the Story Unfolds’, short story Housekeeping exhibition, South London Gallery, London UK.

2020 January ‘And the Story Unfolds,’ short story, Dwell Time blog, Pennistone Railway Line Partnership, South Yorkshire, UK.

2019 October ‘Body in the Woods’, Digital Photograph, Average Art Magazine, UK.

2019 April ‘On the Rag’, Queerology; Heavy Souls, Emergency Gallery, Switzerland.

2018 November ‘Ignored’, ‘Stuck’, ‘Just another Runny Hole’, Digital Photographs, Wotisart, Magazine publication, UK.

2006 March ‘Personal Growth’, Radio Ryedale Short Story Competition winner, North Yorkshire, UK.

2006 February ‘Stepping into the Unknown’ In the Spirit of We ‘Moon; Celebrating 30 years, An Anthology of We ‘moon Art and Writing, Mother tongue Ink, USA. https://wemoon.ws/pages/anthology

Workshops

June 2021 Miscarriage and Well-being; Peformative Rituals for Visualising Loss, workshop blog in conjunction with the University of Leeds, HOPE and Miscarriage Association

Theatre and Video     

Videos

2000 ‘Child Safe: A Guide to Safety and Crime Prevention for Children in Rural Areas,’ funded by Coleford and District Crime Prevention Panel, 2000, Artistic Director.

1997 ‘View and Do; Drama in Secondary Drug Education,’ funded by Gloucestershire County Council Education Department 1997, Director and Camera Operator.

1997 ‘View and Do; Drama in Primary Drug Education,’ funded by Gloucestershire County Council Education Department 1997, Artistic Director

Script Writing and Performances

‘My Head is Still Spinning,’ highlights issues of domestic violence commissioned by Lancashire Police and NHS Trust.

‘Blind Date on Drugs,’ drug education for Key Stage 3 commissioned by Lancaster and Morecambe Educational Trust.

‘Risking Me, Risking You,’ issues of HIV and AIDS commissioned by Lancaster and Morecambe Youth and Community Service.