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Jenna WInterton
Art, Design, and Creativity
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Magpies Nest Sculpture Series - Kaipara Coast
This series is about home and creating a special place for oneself. Inspired by the work of the magpies and how they adorn their nest with things they believe are special, this piece creates a feeling of taonga where my old sculptures and special treasures such as instruments and jewellery are incorporated into the piece. Each nest is named after mothers significant to me. Each of these mothers have made a nest for their families, providing love and support.
Samantha
Part of the Magpies Nest Series
Sculpture Onshore 2025
This series is about home and creating a special place for oneself. Inspired by the work of the magpies and how they adorn their nest with things they believe are special, this piece creates a feeling of taonga where my old sculptures and special treasures such as instruments and jewellery are incorporated into the piece. Each nest is named after mothers significant to me. Each of these mothers have made a nest for their families, providing love and support.
If Only I Could See Myself As My Husband Sees Me
This painting created for the Franklin Art Awards is a self portrait painted with continuous feedback from my husband. Painting myself as he sees me not how I see myself. The whole painting is wrapped in a blush pink glitter veil symbolizing the veil of love and how it can change how you are perceived.
Blowing Kisses
Created for the 2025 Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens exhibition.
Blowing Kisses is about joy, playfulness, and love. Inspired by the story of Don Quixote, this large windmill creates a moment of fantasy within reality. The bold, reflective colours blend and change as it spins, making it ever-changing in all weather.
Blowing Kisses is about joy, playfulness, and love. Inspired by the story of Don Quixote, this large windmill creates a moment of fantasy within reality. The bold, reflective colours blend and change as it spins, making it ever-changing in all weather.
The Magpies Nest
The Magpies nest is an exploration in narrative utilizing colour, texture, sound, and movement in a variety of both 2d and 3d works. Jenna Winterton brings out an element of playfulness with some interactive elements and bold colours and textures.
Transforming the gallery space into a snapshot of the artists mind, with a wide variety of stories being told from folk lore and myth to personal narratives and experiences much like how a magpie collects small trinkets, this show gathers together many interconnected but independent pieces to create a unified treasure pile of art. The works are interwoven together through materials, found object and overlapping narratives.
The viewer is invited into the nest to see and play with all the treasures the artist has created and to read about the stories behind the pieces.
Transforming the gallery space into a snapshot of the artists mind, with a wide variety of stories being told from folk lore and myth to personal narratives and experiences much like how a magpie collects small trinkets, this show gathers together many interconnected but independent pieces to create a unified treasure pile of art. The works are interwoven together through materials, found object and overlapping narratives.
The viewer is invited into the nest to see and play with all the treasures the artist has created and to read about the stories behind the pieces.
The Magpies Nest
Solo Exhibition by Jenna Winterton
The Magpies nest is an exploration in narrative utilizing colour, texture, sound, and movement in a variety of both 2d and 3d works. Jenna Winterton brings out an element of playfulness with some interactive elements and bold colours and textures.
Transforming the gallery space into a snapshot of the artists mind, with a wide variety of stories being told from folk lore and myth to personal narratives and experiences much like how a magpie collects small trinkets, this show gathers together many interconnected but independent pieces to create a unified treasure pile of art. The works are interwoven together through materials, found object and overlapping narratives.
The viewer is invited into the nest to see and play with all the treasures the artist has created and to read about the stories behind the pieces.
The Magpies nest is an exploration in narrative utilizing colour, texture, sound, and movement in a variety of both 2d and 3d works. Jenna Winterton brings out an element of playfulness with some interactive elements and bold colours and textures.
Transforming the gallery space into a snapshot of the artists mind, with a wide variety of stories being told from folk lore and myth to personal narratives and experiences much like how a magpie collects small trinkets, this show gathers together many interconnected but independent pieces to create a unified treasure pile of art. The works are interwoven together through materials, found object and overlapping narratives.
The viewer is invited into the nest to see and play with all the treasures the artist has created and to read about the stories behind the pieces.
Blooms - at the Hundertwasser Art Centre Whangarei
Created for the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangarei.
Hanging between three pohutukawa trees at the town basin in Whangarei
Hanging between three pohutukawa trees at the town basin in Whangarei
Installation on Cuba Street for Cubadupa 2024
Installation on Cuba Street in Wellington for the Cubadupa Street Festival
Sponsored by Cohesive and PSP Limited
Sponsored by Cohesive and PSP Limited
Light Poles for Cubadupa 2024
Installations on light poles on Cuba Street in Wellington for the Cubadupa Festival.
Artwork sponsored by Cohesive and PSP limited
Artwork sponsored by Cohesive and PSP limited
Installation on Eva Street for Cubadupa 2024
Installation of Floral Blooms on Eva Street in Wellington for the Cubadupa Street Festival
Sponsored by Cohesive and PSP Limited
Sponsored by Cohesive and PSP Limited
Light Blooms at the Franklin Arts Centre - 2023
The final installation of Light Blooms at the Franklin Arts Centre. A free to visit art gallery.
Titania's Necklace -2023
Created for the 2024 Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens exhibition.
made using a variety of beads, plastic, and translucent vinyl.
made using a variety of beads, plastic, and translucent vinyl.
Moving Life - 2023 - close up
Created for Sculpture Onshore 2023
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
Moving Life - 2023 - front
Created for Sculpture Onshore 2023
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
Moving Life - 2023 - Back of installation
Created for Sculpture Onshore 2023
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
A celebration of the beauty the comes from big life changes and movement.
Music Blooms - Whangarei Night Lights - 2023
A collaborative installation with Samantha Winterton. Part of the Whangarei Night Lights event 2023
Light Poles for Cubadupa 2024
Installations on light poles on Cuba Street in Wellington for the Cubadupa Festival.
Artwork sponsored by Cohesive and PSP limited
Artwork sponsored by Cohesive and PSP limited
Music Blooms - Whangarei Night Lights - 2023
A collaborative installation with Samantha Winterton. Part of the Whangarei Night Lights event 2023
Carmen - L'amour Est Un Oiseau
Created in reaction to the Carmen song L'amour Est Un Oiseau. Before painting the I danced out the steps to understand the feeling of the movement instead of just a visual reference. The dancing continued during the painting process with pauses in between to dance and remind the body of the movement. Paintined in metallic paint the painting moves with the light around it meaning that although it's painted on canvas it still moves with the viewer as the walk past.
Blooms - Upper Vulcan Lane - 2023
A reinstallation of Blooms for an long table event for Le Chef in Auckland City
Cernunnos' Antler
Cernunnos is the Celtic god of wild things and the underworld. The antler like branch references the forest and wild animals, the beaded vine represents life and growth as well as the godly reamls. Three hanging flowers represent the life cycle one for birth one for life one for death as well as representing the father, mother, and child. All these elements come together to celebrate the beauty of life and death as well as the ethereal nature of wild things.
Light Blooms - Durham Street East - 2022
Best enjoyed on a sunny day with your favourite upbeat music on your headphones; Light Blooms is an installation by artist Jenna Winterton that encourages feelings of positivity and playfulness.
Stop and breathe while you take in the otherworldly flowers and light. Look around you and take a moment to notice your surroundings - see how the flowers interact with the buildings, with the sky, with the ground. This moment is unique, this moment is yours.
Utilising industrial materials and the power of nature, Jenna has created ethereally floral shapes that harness natural light and wind to make art that truly dances. The bold yet translucent colours play with the space, shifting the atmosphere every moment. In the midst of a busy city, Light Blooms offers the viewer a playful way to pause, take in their surroundings and breathe.
Part of Art in the City.
Stop and breathe while you take in the otherworldly flowers and light. Look around you and take a moment to notice your surroundings - see how the flowers interact with the buildings, with the sky, with the ground. This moment is unique, this moment is yours.
Utilising industrial materials and the power of nature, Jenna has created ethereally floral shapes that harness natural light and wind to make art that truly dances. The bold yet translucent colours play with the space, shifting the atmosphere every moment. In the midst of a busy city, Light Blooms offers the viewer a playful way to pause, take in their surroundings and breathe.
Part of Art in the City.
Myrddin's Staff - H&B Art Awards - 2023
Myrddin’s Staff is a representation of the British mythological canon of Myrddin.
The staff represents the old wise man with his cane as well as the traveller off on quests. The beaded vine and hanging flowers represent the druidic links to nature as well as the ethereal and otherworldly qualities. The flowers being made from translucent materials act as a sun catcher with the two colours of yellow and orange creating feelings of joy and calm through coloured light.
All combining as a representation of the great wizard Myrddin more commonly known in our times as Merlin.
The staff represents the old wise man with his cane as well as the traveller off on quests. The beaded vine and hanging flowers represent the druidic links to nature as well as the ethereal and otherworldly qualities. The flowers being made from translucent materials act as a sun catcher with the two colours of yellow and orange creating feelings of joy and calm through coloured light.
All combining as a representation of the great wizard Myrddin more commonly known in our times as Merlin.
Amphitrite - 2022
The Dance - 2023
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