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Gallery Art
Explore Jenny McCracken’s collection of gallery art, where detailed realism captures the beauty and vulnerability of animals and ecosystems while often confronting the viewer with the impact of human activity. Jenny’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries and group exhibitions across Australia, including Climarte Gallery in Richmond, Victoria, Murwillumbah, NSW, and Gosford Regional Gallery.
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King Arthur
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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Restoration signage
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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Woman on throne
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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The funeral of King Arthur
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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King Arthur
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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Restoration signage
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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Woman on throne
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
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The funeral of King Arthur
Artwork for the Geelong carousel restoration.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting of a blue-and-white willow-pattern plate depicting two rabbits caught in a net under a night sky, flanked by a fork and knife, set against a lace-patterned background.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting of a blue-and-white willow-pattern plate showing figures wading through floodwater past a submerged house, nestled in crumpled paper inside a wooden shadow box.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting of a cracked blue-and-white willow-pattern plate depicting a bushfire scene with smoke, a helicopter, and a fire truck, set in a wooden shadow box.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting of an ornate blue-and-gold willow-pattern plate showing a coastal house on rocks battered by waves, set in crumpled blue fabric inside a wooden frame.
- Four framed trompe-l'oeil paintings of blue-and-white willow-pattern plates displayed in a row on a gallery wall, each set against a different textured background — wood grain, lace, and crumpled fabric.
- $1.10 Australia postage stamp featuring a mural of a kingfisher diving underwater, painted on a cylindrical water tower with a spiral staircase, split half above and half below a rippling waterline. Text reads "Gulargambone, NSW | Jenny McCracken."
- Painting of two azure kingfishers, one in flight and one perched with a museum specimen tag reading "Arsenic," set inside a shallow wooden display box.
- ainting of a Gouldian finch in flight beside a folded museum specimen tag and a small stack of pinned photographs, in a wooden display box.
- Painting of two green budgerigars shown from behind with elongated tail feathers and museum specimen tags, mounted in a dark wooden box.
- Painting of two swift lorikeets with vivid green and blue plumage shown from behind, pressed together with hanging museum tags, in a wooden display box.
- Painting of two regent honeyeaters with black-and-white speckled plumage, shown from behind with hanging museum specimen tags, in a wooden display box.
- Painting of a regent honeyeater specimen with wings spread beside a flowering wattle branch, and a second perched honeyeater, in a wooden display box.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting of three regent parrots styled as museum specimens on a flowering bottlebrush branch and a mounted stand with a specimen tag, in a wooden display box.
- Painting of two regent honeyeaters, one in flight with spread black, white, and yellow wings and one perched below, framed within a circular gray border against a textured cream background. Signed "Jenny McCracken 2023."
- Painting of an emperor penguin and its chick, the chick bearing a museum specimen tag, set inside a wooden display box.
- Painting of three Gouldian finches with vivid purple, green, and red plumage mounted with handwritten museum specimen tags, inside a wooden display box.
- Surreal cover illustration for Cosmos magazine's Issue 100, showing two hands cupping a miniature landscape of brain hemispheres, DNA helix, wildlife, and technology, with colorful paint dripping from the hands.
- Painted panel of King Arthur in gold armor with a purple cloak, seated on a pale grey horse atop a rocky hilltop overlooking a valley, from Jenny McCracken's 1998-99 Geelong carousel restoration.
- Herschell-Spillman Co. carousel signage reading 'Manufacturers of Caroussselles, North Tonawanda N.Y., c.1890, Restored in Castlemaine by Carousel Restorations Pty Ltd, 1998,' painted with a small illustration of two robed figures.
- Painted panel of a woman with dark braided hair seated on a carved wooden throne, wearing a green and gold Celtic-patterned robe, holding a glowing chalice with wisps of smoke or mist trailing from it.
- Painted panel of a knight in gold armor kneeling on a beach beside a sword, gazing toward a boat carrying robed figures across the water to a distant castle, depicting the funeral of King Arthur.
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