Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist, a fresh-water woman currently based on sovereign Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Her practice is centred around story and narrative while producing works that encompass installation, digital, film and print. Jazz’s writing has been widely performed and published nationally and internationally. Her David Unaipon Award-winning debut poetry collection ‘how to make a basket’ was published in 2021 by University of Queensland Press. Jazz was the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Dreaming Award from the Australia Council for the Arts for her work with poetry.
Working across different mediums, Jazz’s practice is centred around questions of narrative and story – place memory, First Nations memory, colonial memory and the stories that we tell to construct national and personal identity.
Exhibition history
Unfinished Camp (2022)
Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo
I will tell you my story (2022)
UTS Gallery
bordering on voidness (2022)
Visual Bulk, Hobart
Hyphenated Biennial (2021)
Melbourne
Hyphenated Biennial: The threads we hold together (2021)
Rosyln Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2021)
Campbelltown Art Centre
untitled (transcriptions of country) | Jonathan Jones (2021)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Fremantle Biennale: Crossings (2021)
Fremantle
Unfinished Camp (2021)
Commissioned by ACMI (Melbourne) - presented at The Shed New York, HEK Basel Switzerland and ACMI Gallery 5
Eucalyptasdom (2021)
Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney
Accumulates in the throat, emerges from the mouth (2021)
Kings Artist Run
Textbook For Desire (2021)
Cement Fondu
Here:After (2021)
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
No Show (2021)
Carriageworks
We Need To Talk About Fire (2020)
Bundanon Trust
Collective: Ghost (2020)
Outerspace ARI
Machine Listening (2020)
Liquid Architecture x unsound
Live Dreams, Liveworks (2020)
Carriageworks
Distant Echoes: Write around the Murray (2020)
Murray Art Museum Albury
Torrent Blossom (2020)
Firstdraft
Under Southern Skies (2020-2022)
Australian National Maritime Museum
A Sight for Sore Eyes (2020)
Blak Dot Gallery
Relics of Survival (2019)
Bus Projects
m-othering (2019)
Counihan Gallery
Tjungu Palyangku Tjukurpa titutjara kunpu ngaranyt- ja-ku (2019)
Artbank, Melbourne and Sydney
Awards
Dreaming Award, Australia Council for the Arts
Winner, 2022
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Winner, Aboriginal Art Award, 2021
First Nations Emerging Career Award, Australian Council for the Arts
Winner, 2021
Rising Star Award for Young Alumni, University of Melbourne
Winner, 2021
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2021
David Unaipon Award
Winner, 2020
Nakata Brophy Award
Runner up, 2020
Val Vallis Award
Shortlist, 2020
Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2020
Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert Poetry Prize
Winner, 2019
Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship
Fellow, 2019
ACU Poetry Prize
Shortlist, 2019
The University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize
Winner, 2018
Nakata Brophy Award
Shortlist, 2018
Marpha Foundation, Nepal
Creative Fellow, 2017
The Gwenda Ford English Literature Scholarship, The University of Melbourne
Winner, 2014
Bundanon Artist in Residency, Bundanon Australia (2022)
Hyphenated Biennale, online residency (2021)
Varuna the writers’ house, Katoomba Australia (2019)
Marpha Foundation, Lower Mustang Nepal (2017)