Jenny Hickinbotham, Mobile: 0438733165 [email protected], 31 Goode Street, Gisborne, Australia 3437

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:

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