1 Jenny Hickinbotham, Mobile: 0438733165 [email protected], www.jennyhickinbotham.com 31 Goode Street, Gisborne, Australia 3437

Awards & Residencies 2020 RMIT Liquid Architecture Graduate Prize for Sound Art. 2020 Deans Award for Excellence, BA Fine Art (Honours) Out of Site at Home, Through First Site Gallery, RMIT, 6th to 27th July 2020 Highly Commended at Hobsons Bay Rotary Art Show, Williamstown Harbour, etching, 10 x 8 cms, 2016.

Artworks All Jenny Hickinbotham 2019-20 RMIT Graduate and Honours assessable artworks and more can be viewed at www.jennyhickinbotham.com, Main-Tab Semester One, Sub-Tabs Finished Works, Unfinished Works, Archive, Praxis and Main-Tab Semester Two, Sub-Tabs Finished Works, Trial Presentation and Archive.

Group Exhibitions The Art Room, sold At Cherry Lake, oil on linen approx. 120 x 90cms, Melbourne, Victoria. Tactile Arts, Constellations, Darwin, Northern Territory. Darwin Visual Arts, Funk to Junk, November 2016, Darwin, Northern Territory. Selfie, photograph, 2017, RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia Redmond Treehouse, 2017, Artists Guild, Melbourne, Australia (sold) Hiraeth, Tacit Studio, Abbotsford, Melbourne, December 2018. Walk A Mile in my Shoes, sponsor TreeHaus, Community Event Williamstown Reserve 2018. Brunswick Street Gallery, small works, 2018 Linden new Art, postcard show, 2018. SACI University Florence, Group exhibition. 2018 RMIT Graduate Exhibition, Nov 21 to 17, three videos, Connection… each 10.23 mins MOJO Film Festival 2018, awarded for Therapy and Me, my 3.30 min MP4 video MOJO film Festival 2019, awarded for Connecting and Creating after Trauma, 7 min MP4 video MOJO Film Festival 2020, awarded for At Home with Covid, 3 min MP$ video Death in a Box, Emergency Artists Collective, online 31st October – 30 November 2020

Solo Exhibitions. Turning & Turning in Redwood State Forest, three videos/screens, RMIT Building 2, Melb. Facebook Me, Gasworks Park, Mirrors back to back. Melbourne, Australia. November 2018. ‘Round the Reel’, exhibition at Art on Piper, Kyneton, Feb to August 2020

Writing Achievements Coordinated, published and launched Visible Ink, RMIT Creative Writing Anthology 1990. Fill My Cup, produced as a radio play at Flinders University 1992. Bull-ants and Witch Volcano published online approx. 2000. http://www.earthplatform.com/jenny/hickinbotham. Grant Writing, published Queensland Writer’s Centre Magasine approx. 2010. Death Becomes Us All, Read on SynNation Radio, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. 13 Sept 2018. Syn Nation Radio, hear their interview and reading at jennyhickinbotham.com When I Had a Grandpa, and Risking It All, The Corvus RMIT, 11 November 2018. https://thecorvusrmit.com/category/poetry/ 2 Toxic Relationships, 2019, published The Problem with Transference, RMIT Bowen Street Press. Book Collaboration Project, Our Own Words, my contribution, Connection: Knowing like Breathing, published for distribution Dec 2019. Psychology of Sex, published in Medium Online, 17th November, 2019. Dear Granny, ABC radio 774 Facilitators Brain Nankervis and Jacinta Parsons, Friday Review, 28th August 2020

Relevant Education Certificate of Creative Writing, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1990 Bachelor of Arts, Majors English and Drama, Flinders University, 1991 - 1995 Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies from University of SA, 1996. Open University Australia (Curtin University) BA, Fine Art and Visual Culture. 2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, 2017 to 2019 GPA 3.8 Honours RMIT Fine Art 2020. 1st Class Honours, Deans Award for Excellence Masters Coursework RMIT Fine Art 2021 – current.

Travel: 2008 Joined Australian Chamber of Manufacturers on a trip to Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto. 2016 Melbourne to Darwin driving with two dogs & a tent. Italy 2018, joined RMIT in Florence at SACI Uni. 2017 Venice Biennale, Joined RMIT Photography Tour in Munich, Kassel, Paris, Arles. Travelled to Barcelona, Madrid and London. 3 Work Resumé

2015 – Collaborative ICT Interface & eHealth Committee- participant

June 2014 – Swinburne University SMART project, videoed for inclusion of my story in a website to support people experiencing mental illness.

Oct to Nov 2014 – Melbourne University, Dept General Practice, CORE project – Peer worker supporting consumers & carers to engage with Research Assistants to do a survey and engage in co-design of the project as a whole

March 2014 –May 2015 ATAPS Reference Group Committee participant at Medicare Local, Hoppers Crossing

April 2019 – December 2019 Vic Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) Commitment: Part Time Role: Team Leader, Peer Support, Royal Commissions & Phoenix Responsibilities include: • Lead six staff, and two teams. o Phoenix team provide trauma informed peer support to people who have experienced sexual abuse and threats in inpatient units. o Royal Commission team, design, organise, facilitate and promote workshops, one on one, and self-initiated engagements and submissions to Vic Royal Commission into Mental Health and National Royal Commission into violence, neglect, abuse and exploitation of people with disabilities.

March 2010 – April 2015 Household Relief Fund Commitment: Voluntary Role: Founding Director, Administrator and Secretary Responsibilities include: • Established this charity to raise money and support women and children escaping family violence. Having worked as Administrator for Women’s Health West’s women’s refuge (2004-8) I saw a need for women to be given whitegoods, that was the focus of this charity’s work. • Taking phone queries and supporting requests or referring • Elected Secretary, keeping minutes, maintaining all written records and documents • Writing grant applications and providing acquittals • Raise approx $45000 each year • Maintaining accounts on MYOB and keeping accurate records, launched it into the cloud • Organising and attending monthly committee meetings, taking and distributing minutes • Creating networking opportunities and maintaining relationships with stakeholders & partners • Working with the board on a funds distribution policy and implementing it when requests arrive • Appointing board members and supporting them • Organising fundraising events • Obtaining donations for fundraising auctions • Work with board on development of a strategic plan • Handling all compliance documents and submissions to CAV, ACNC and more • Engage & supervise volunteer grant writers • Maintain the website, updating pages, events information and more

4 Mar 2010-Oct 2015 cohealth (was Western Region Health Centre) Commitment: 15 hours per week Role: Consumer Consultant Supervisor: Neil Turton-Lane, Senior Consumer Consultant, Consumer Leadership and Service Purchasing Program

23rd June to 31st July 2014 Role: Acting Team Leader Consumer Participation, Facilitator Hearing Voices Group, Consumer Worker D2DL Supervisor: Molly Galea, Program Manager Support Services

Acting Team Leader Responsibilities included: • Supervision of staff • Project on Consumer Consultant’s input into the roll out of CRM within cohealth • Join interview panel, then phone interview referees • Join Day 2 Day Living program and support consumers engaged in outings and activities • Organise and facilitate Consumer Consultant Team Meeting, send out minutes • Mentor three interns with lived experience of mental illness, read their reflective journals and provide input and reflective comment in the form of reports • Attend VMIAC Consumer and information days

Consumer Consultant Responsibilities include: • Facilitate two Hearing Voices Groups • Act as ‘go-to person’ for Consumer led support group, Boomerang Network Inc and help them to comply with Consumer Affairs requirements for incorporated associations and to raise funds. • Facilitate Fundraising workshop for consumer leaders at VMIAC • Support clients with their daily challenges and contribute where I can to their recovery • Write up case notes/attendance in software package Trak • Find opportunities for clients such as Open2Study courses, Writers Vic newsletters and membership • Hold interviews with new clients, introduce the Orientation Kit, myself, my role & cohealth service • Handle and pass on (where permission given) any complaints or comments about the service & teams • Support staff to know more about recovery and the experience of living with a mental illness • Advocate for and support clients in care coordination • Ensure the consumer voice is included in document development and everything the team does • Interview clients on their experience of the Panorama service and write up the results – this was a downgraded research project • Attend training and reflective practise • Attend team meetings and client handover • Join in supervision with both team leaders

Oct 09 – June 14 Williams Defence Community House Commitment: 18 hours per week Role: Coordinator Supervisor: Jeanie Thorpe, President

Responsibilities included: • Grant writing and acquittal, including writing official report for Department of Defence 5 • Marketing of the community house to the community and members of the Defence force • Production of the community house brochure and newsletter • Developing and maintaining a website • Advertised for and engaged a Playgroup Facilitator • Expenditure of budget monies and acquittal of grant, keeping track • Organisation of events such as the Open Day, Family Fun Day and Biggest Morning Tea • Keeping minutes at Committee of Management meetings, writing up & distributing to members

Jan 09- March 2010 Extended Families Australia Commitment: Part-time nine hours per week Role: Administration Officer Supervisor: Julie Langdon Responsibilities include: Various administration and reception tasks: • Initiate flyers, brochures, marketing material and Mail merge for mail outs • Updating Website • Maintaining databases • Organising and supporting events such as the AGM and Family Fun Day at the Zoo, Christmas part, obtain donations for silent auctions

Jan 09- 2012 Women’s Health West Commitment: Casual approx 5 hours per week Role: Peer Educator with PowerOn Program Supervisor: Sally Camilleri, Project Worker Responsibilities include: Facilitate the teaching of a group of women who live with mental illness. Subjects cover life skills eg: Self Esteem, Body Image, & Positive Thinking.

May 08 – July 09 Mental Illness Fellowship Commitment: Part-time three days per week Role: Community Information Coordinator Supervisor: Ruth Barr, Manager Technical Services Responsibilities include: • Community Education, write, design and deliver suitable community education events to satisfy requests coming from schools, non-Gov’t & Gov’t organisations, not-for-profit organisations, talks are designed to run for between one and three hours. • Speaker’s Bureau, engage volunteer people living with mental illness as speakers, provide them with training, find speaking engagements and support speakers through the event, helping them to deliver a quality talk and to disengage after the event

March 08-July 08 Western Suburbs Indigenous Gathering Place Commitment: Part-time two days per week Role: Submission Writer Supervisor: Colleen Marion CEO Wrote over $700,000 worth of application, some as large as $260,000 to organisations such as Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund and Department of Justice. Received a thank you letter from the CEO after I left for the money I raised.

Sept 07-Feb 08 Try Youth and Community Services Commitment: Part-time three days per week 6 Role: Trusts Officer Referees: Joe Morris, Executive Officer (resigned) • Apply for grants to Trusts and Foundations • Approach corporate businesses for sponsorship • Satisfy all acquittal and reporting requirements • Research suitable Trusts & Foundations to apply to • Source suitable articles and photos to be included in Try Progress, a Newsletter • Liase with typesetters and publishers to ensure the Newsletter is posted to members and interested parties pre-tax and pre-Christmas • Appealed to donors for items to include in the Silent Auction held at our Calcutta Dinner in Crown Palladium in November, we raised over $15,000.

Sept 04-March 08 Women’s Health West, Commitment: Part Time two days per week Role: Administration and Reception Assistant Referee: Alfina Sinatra, Coordinator, Crisis Accommodation Service Work within the premises of the secure refuge for women & children escaping family violence. Work closely with case-workers, children’s support worker & team leader to provide a co- ordinated, team-based resource for all of our clients.

Responsibilities-Administration Trusts and Foundation • Apply for grants–in 6 months I raised over $135,000 • Keep track of grant expenditure on Excel. • Perform acquittal requirements for grants received • Totally re-designed the children’s play room with grant funding • Supervised purchase of outdoor play equipment for children, with soft landing materials, using grant funding • Organised purchase of bedding materials for women and children in the refuge with grant funding raised. This was after various failed processes, such as asking the women to launder the linen, renting the linen.

Administration • Meet and greet women and children at Head Office and support them to locate to the refuge • Work with women in the refuge to maintain all equipment, resources, cleanliness of house • Support families to re-locate from refuge to our community housing, when suitable • Support women to maintain silence and secrecy around their location, schooling, shopping, etc • Supported women to court hearings • Organise authorisation and payment of all invoices, enter invoice details into MYOB • Organise maintenance for three properties, engaging with women and children residing • Maintain database on Access • Record minutes at staff meetings and distribute • Maintain printers, office equipment and IT systems • Maintain asset register • Keep track of all rents received and owing, liaise with women supported within our service to ensure security of finances. • Initiate systems and procedures when necessary

7 Dec 2004 – May 2007 Salvation Army Crossroads Program Commitment: Part Time five days per fortnight Role: Administration Assistant Referees: Gayle Reeve and Diana Murphy

Aug-Nov 2004 Lloyd Morgan contract At Mimco Pty Ltd Accounts payable Software AS400 changed to Accpac

Oct 2000- Jan 2004 YWCA Victoria, Accounts Assistant Responsibility for: Payroll, Superannuation, Workcover Accounts Payable & Receivable (shared) Banking Bank Reconciliation GST & PAYG reporting Payment Summaries End of year rollovers Reimburse ASISTA volunteers

Oct 1999- Sept 2000 Link Accountancy Recruitment Beever Engineering, one month Drummond Golf, one month County Court of Victoria, seven months Ansett Airlines, three months

1990 – 1995 University of South Australia, Librarianship Flinders University, Bachelor of Arts Degree, majors English and Drama, one play produced, more recently I had two pieces of fiction published on the internet. RMIT, Certificate of Professional Writing

1981 – 1989 Hickinbotham Winemakers a family company Manager Production and Marketing. Sold each vintage production within twelve months, used innovative marketing techniques, such as individual batches of wine for individual restaurants. Wrote all press releases, newsletters, and publicity material. Organised printing and graphic design of publications. Promoted the brand at public functions, press functions and festivals. All media engagements, including radio interviews and journalist interviews for published articles in papers such as The Age. Business Manager. Produced cash flow and production budgets. Interpreted profit and loss and balance sheet statements. Accounts Manager. Purchased a PC in the early 1980s and an accounting software package called Six S, maintained creditors and debtors. Moved to IBM and Australian Business Systems software when airlines became customers. Vineyard Manager. Produced excellent quality fruit and sourced fruit from various small growers around Victoria and Tasmania. Charles Sturt University, Diploma of Viticulture (incomplete)

8 Memberships Institute of Art & Ideas Writers Victoria National Association of Visual Artists Arts Hub National Gallery of Victoria Association of Australian Authors Heidi MOMA Tarrawarra

Subscriptions Australian Book Review

Committee Schizy Inc