Jen Kerr

Jen Kerr is a community arts facilitator, project manager, and public arts advisor with
over three decades of experience in the cultural sector. With a background in
education and community arts management, she holds a B.Ed and a Masters of Art
in Public Space, with an interest in how artists work with communities to tell stories
of place to activate space.
After pursuing a career in education and arts management she returned to ceramics
in 2015 while living in Jakarta where she studied with Indonesian potter
Haryoadiputro Soenggona.
At present Jen’s studio practice in ceramics involves creating tableware and pinch
pots as meditation. Her range of tableware, plates and platters, explores the ‘in
between’. ‘Between the Land and the Sea’; ‘Between the Forrest and the River,
‘Between Places’ are all titles of collections of works that respond to ongoing
experiments with glaze combinations that evoke our stunningly beautiful ancient
land, sea and sky. Made by slumping slabs of clay over molds, the forms become
canvases for glaze to flux, fuse and flow and perform magic in the kiln and notions of
landscape are revealed
‘Pinched Landscape - …’ is the title of a creative meditation on place. Places Jen
has visited, country she has lived on, camped beside or travelled through. The
pinched pots, often created on site, are made from stoneware clays that she carries
with her on her travels in Western Australia.

She has participated in a number of group exhibitions and events in Western
Australia. She shares a studio in the Jarrah-Marri forest on the Darling Scarp with
Bernard Kerr and their son Robbie.