ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
Jenna Waldren is an artist from London now based in Edinburgh. She graduated in 2021 with a First-Class Honours in Painting BA from Edinburgh College of Art. She currently occupies a space at the artist-run Mutual Co-Op Studios where she continues to develop her artistic practice.
Her work observes her immediate surroundings, documenting small passages of human connection between her friends and loved ones. She also often turns the lens on herself, attempting to contemplate how the world sees her as a young woman. Using drawing, painting and printmaking in a careful and tender manner, her work experiments with the balance of the graphic versus the painterly, juxtaposing bold lines against delicate, detailed areas of focus.
AWARDS
2018
Winner of the London First Prize Arts Depot Open
FEATURES
2022
Interview on 'Local Supporting Local' Podcast-
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Bm5PbdGL2ZaBWTJws9I8U?si=adfb718b2570412c
Interview for Solo Exhibition with The Hen Collective- https://youtu.be/Hz27BpTJz18
2021
Interview with Cass Art Blog-
https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/jenna-waldren-discusses-lockdown-and-returning-to-university.htm
Video with Elizabeth Lawrence and Jane Hyslop discussing the 'Art and Playfair Library' Project-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUaxZHp8FQ
2018
Articles about Arts Depot Open 2018-
https://www.times-series.co.uk/news/16411003.artsdepot-open-four-artists-honoured-exhibition/
https://www.insight-art.co.uk/news/more-success-at-the-artsdepot-open/
EXHIBITIONS
2022
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'GUT', Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
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'Differing Parallels', Insight School of Art, London
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'Closing Exhibition by We are Sweet Art', The Bypass Gallery, London
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'Book Project', Tebbs Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
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'Tenderfoot', St Margret's House, Edinburgh
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'The grass is always greener on the Sa-Lawn', Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
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'Border Art Fair', SSA, Jedburgh
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'The Hen Collective Retrospective', Blunt Knife Gallery, Edinburgh
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'RE-KNEW'ED' Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
2021
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Young Artists Summer Exhibition, Arts Depot, London
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Youth in Lockdown, Brink Art Gallery, Virtual Exhibition - https://www.youthinlockdown.co.uk
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Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
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Graduate Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Virtual - https://www.graduateshow.eca.ed.ac.uk/portfolio/jenna-waldren
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Collective Creation, GUM Magazine in collaboration with Glasgow University Student Representation Council (SRC), Virtual Exhibition - https://www.glasgowuniversitymagazine.co.uk/creative-collection/
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Printmaking Volume 1, Rafiki Gallery, Virtual Exhibition - https://therafikigallery.com/printmaking-vol-1/
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Carbon Copies, Virtual Exhibition - @carbon.copies2021
2020
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The Rattlecap: Pop up Exhibition, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh
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New Becoming Normal, Portobello - @newbecomingnormal
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Art and the Playfair Library/Speaking to Absent Voices, University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC), Virtual Exhibition - https://www.art-playfair-library.is.ed.ac.uk/jenna-waldren/
2019
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Filling Voids, Main Building at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
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Bookmarks, ECA Fire Station, Edinburgh
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E.01 Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
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She_Exhibition, Virtual Exhibition - https://sheexhibitionedinburgh.weebly.com/feast-your-eyes.html
2018
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Arts Depot Open, Arts Depot, London
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untitled DOKument, DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh