BIO

Jennifer Procter is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on Ngunawal/Ngambri land. She has been in the arts all her life, training in music, performance, visual arts and working as a director/choreographer/performer, teacher and visual artist. Drawing on her practices of movement and stillness, she is influenced by Buddhist philosophies of emptiness, impermance and interconnectedness.

Jennifer took 8 years break from professional arts to practice meditation intensively in Borneo, Nepal, India and Australia. She has been living in Canberra since then, making art and teaching mindfulness, movement and art.

CV

I am an interdisciplinary artist and arts teacher living and working on Ngunawal & Ngambri land.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

June 2024                Where the earth meets the sea, video installation, CBD Sydney
June 2023                Intertidal, charcoal and mixed-media animation, dual-channel video installation
Tuggeranong Arts Centre

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

September 2025      When You Call My Name, charcoal and mixed media animated drawing, Canberra, Japan, Korea
Jan 31 2025             What did they tell you? steel and aluminium sculpture, Alexandria, Sydney
March 2022              Incandescence, charcoal and mixed-media animation, M16 Canberra
December 2019      Create & Destroy, charcoal and mixed-media animation & installation,
CIT Reid Design space
August 2019             Submerged
Artist’s Shed, Canberra

OTHER WORKS

2008, 2014         Mortal Frames, art-book, Australia
2001 - 2009            Various shows: Choreographer, Director, Performer,
Melbourne, Canberra

AWARDS, PRIZES

2021                         Tuggeranong Arts Centre grant
2019                         Tuggeranong Arts Centre award
2007                         ArtsACT grant
2005                         VCA Dance school award
2004                         VCA Friends of VCA award
2001                         Dean’s honour roll, University of Melbourne (pure mathematics)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1994-2025              Meditation training (Burma, India, Nepal, Australia, Borneo)

2000-2025              Movement training: butoh, body-weather, contemporary, physical theatre, capoeira, oki-do yoga, qi gong, Kuchipudi

2024                         Woodworking

2023                        Certificate IV Training & Assessment TAE40116

2021                         Graduate Certificate in Creative Therapies, CDU

2019                         Diploma of Visual Art, CIT

2004                         Postgraduate Diploma, performance-making, VCA

2002                         BA, University of Melbourne (English Lit. and Pure Mathematics)