As of 2020 I will be opening my portfolio to any amateur or professional artist wanting to connect and discus their work. I will be holding private online critiques in the hope to educate and further expand an artists practicum. 

I will be supporting artists through discussion, analysis and knowledge based investigations. With fresh and relevant information!
For more details please email 

artist-to-artist@hotmail.com  


A finalist on The Big Painting Challenge  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fn9p2 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fn9p2/episodes/player 

Our group website is 
http://www.tenartists.co.uk/artists/jennifer-morrow 

I am currently working on a new series of work relating to my experiences as a mother, loves, fears and loses. The complexities of emotion. The disposition. The unnameable and void. 


Education and Qualifications
 
2020-2020
OCN Level 1 in Counselling 
2014- 2015
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Ulster, Coleraine  
2009-2013
BA Honours Degree in Fine and Applied Art, University of Ulster, Belfast
2008-2009
BTEC Diploma in Fine and Applied Art, Belfast Metropolitan College, Belfast
BTEC Nation Diploma in Fine and Applied Art, South Eastern Regional College, Lisburn
 
Exhibitions/Shows

2019
White Space Chelsea, New York, USA
https://www.facebook.com/whitespacechelsea/photos/a.512753845567117/1357806104395216/?type=3&theater 

2018

Agora Gallery, New York, USA 
"Life Is But A Dream" 
www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Jennifer_Morrow.aspx#info
www.art-mine.com/artistpage/jennifer_morrow.aspx

Hallows Gallery, Northern Ireland, April-May 
www.thehallowsgallery.com/events

Arts Society of Ulster, Annual Exhibition, Northern Ireland, April  
Parallax Art Fair, London, February  
Lisburn Civic Centre, Lisburn, January/February   

2017
Christos Gallery, Scotland
Glasgow school of Art Painting and filming
Artist of the Month’ Via Northern Ireland Arts Council
Commissions 
 
2016
Finalist on “The Big Painting Challenge’ BBC One
Painted and exhibited work in London
Painted and exhibited work on Hastings Pier
Painted and exhibited work at Whipsnade Zoo
Painted and exhibited work in London National Portrait gallery
Painted and exhibited work in the Painters Hall London
Painted and exhibited work on the Thames River in London
 
Worked alongside Pascal Anson and Diana Ali
Mentored and critiqued by
Daphne Todd OBE, first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and winner of the BP Portrait Award 2010.
Lachlan Goudie, Award winning Scottish Artist, (son of Alexander Goudie).
David Dibosa, Course Leader for MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts. He is also a Researcher in University of the Arts London's Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TRAIN).
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2015
Paintings in Boarder Line, Hollywood, NI
Show with A.I.R Retrospective, Thailand
 
2014
Artist Residency, Surface Arts, Thailand  
Lectured in Chiang Mai University, Thailand 
Exhibition in Chiang Mai Art Museum, Thailand
 Painting in Northern Ireland Arts Council Collection. (Currently in traveling exhibition location at point in Brussels)
 
2013
Degree show, University of Ulster, Belfast 
 
2011
Self-Run Exhibition
Titanic Quarter Drawing Offices, Belfast
‘The Rising’
Biography

​Jennifer Morrow was born in Northern Ireland, in 1988. Although born in a small city she has travelled extensively visiting Europe, Asia, Australasia, America, the UK and Ireland.  Studying in local colleges and universities her love for painting was founded at a young age. Social and cultural issues have always influenced and established a dialogue in her work but the main subject has always been the people she has encountered along the way.  
 
After completing a degree in Fine Art she was funded by Northern Ireland Arts Council to complete an artist residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her work was exhibited in the National Gallery alongside some of Thailand’s most recognized artists. Through this, a love for teaching and constructive practice was established.  Gaining experience through lecturing at Chiang Mai University she returned home to further her education in teaching. In 2015 she was awarded a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. A change in personal circumstances meant she was unable to continue this path at present.
 
Within this intermission of her life she returned to her true passion of which is painting.  Jennifer was selected out of thousands of applicants to take part in a BBC One Painting Program called “The Big Painting Challenge”. She worked along side Pascal Anson and Diana Ali and throughout the stages of filming was mentored and critiqued by Daphne Todd OBE, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Lachlan Goudie and David Dibosa. 
 
It is this experience that has refreshed and heightened her interest in people. Not so much the people but the void experienced through brief meetings or the strangers passing in the street. Being removed from the comfort of her own surrounds she looked for confidence in many people she met, only to discover the lack of meaningful connections. She found it intriguing to see the many faces, the soulless expressions and to contemplate the various unknown stories.
The idea of the unfamiliar, things they may have seen, the people they are, the dissolved social interactions and at times the voyeuristic approach used to find comfort in the unknown, fuels Jennifer’s work today.  
 
She places relevance on the notion of disengagements and questions perspectives not only for her as an artist but as the viewer, the void between art and lived experience. She uses watercolour, ink, acrylic and alcohol to create portraits and figurative paintings. Working in a fluid manner to create work that pulsates and challenges the mind she depicts the colourful from a bleak memory.

Commissions 
"The Hastings Painting is a source of constant joy." Owner.

Openings 

Please contact directly for Openings. 

Phase 1
​https://www.lisburntoday.co.uk/lifestyle/lisburn-s-new-sculpture-park-opens-to-public-1-7899110
 ​http://www.nvtv.co.uk/shows/the-sculpture-park/ 

Phase 2 Belshaws Quarry Sculpture Park

www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/northernireland/appeals
Community Life programme goes live on BBC1 May 13 and 14 also BBC2 on May 16.

Ulster Star Review 
​www.lisburntoday.co.uk/news/find-out-more-about-newly-extended-sculpture-park-1-8454140

Workshops/Demonstrations 

​Please contact directly if you would like to book a workshop. 

Hillsborough Art Society Demonstration 
Lisnagarvey Arts Society 
​
​https://www.islandartscentre.com/whatson/2017/12/expressive-painting
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Some of the comments from participants who did the workshop:

“So different, creative, new techniques. Really fun.”
“Excellent – love to do it again.”
“Loved the freedom.”
“Loved the experience. Thank you.”
“I found this workshop helpful in my pursuit in understanding abstract art and so inspiring to have an artist share so well and usefully her knowledge and experience.”
“Came to the workshop as I had seen Jennifer on TV. Loved her attitude, and on this day we learnt and enjoyed. Thank you.”

Leeds Art Gallery 
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Glasgow School of Art 
Taught by Rosemary Beaton, http://www.rosemarybeaton.co.uk


F.E.McWilliams Gallery Banbridge 
Taught by Leanne Mullen,  http://leannemullen.com
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Radio 

BBC Radio Ulster 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hysm7 

BBC Radio 
​Interview with Karen Patterson and Joel Taggart 17/03/17

Exhibition opening of "Untold Story" at The Hallows Gallery.

Irish News Review 

www.irishnews.com/arts/2018/04/19/news/art-review-the-untold-story-a-significant-show-that-features-50-women-from-north-1305921/ 

Arts Society of Ulster adjudication and opening of Annual Exhibition, Merville House.

www.facebook.com/Arts-Society-of-Ulster-1382507385410981/

Press

The Telegraph 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/great-british-paint-bbc-show-looks-nations-best-amateur-artist/

Blog

https://tatchtheartist.blogspot.co.uk 

Newsletter 

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/whats-on/tv-and-film/northern-ireland-woman-takes-part-in-new-bbc1-show-the-big-painting-challenge-1-7769929 

Press

Lisburn's Jennifer Morrow in final of BBC's Big Painting Challenge

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/lisburns-jennifer-morrow-in-final-of-bbcs-big-painting-challenge-35528520.html  

BBC The Big Painting Challenge 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/SvpXn69yHDvq2vXpTst6px/meet-the-contestants

Artist Residency 

​http://surfacearts.co.uk/jennifer-morrow/ 
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Making a Mark 

http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/bbc1-new-big-painting-challenge-2017.html 

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Express

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/769374/The-Big-Painting-Challenge-boycott-Jennifer-public-vote-win-BBC-One 

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http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/review-episode-5-big-painting-challenge.html 

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http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/review-episode-3-big-painting-challenge.html

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http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/review-episode-2-landscapes-big-painting-challenge.html

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http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/review-big-painting-challenge-episode-1.html​