Janine is an Australian-born, award-winning contemporary Artist. Her photographic-based art practice concerns the intertwined relationship of people, place, space and time. Works are often disorienting images of place that serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological experiences such as marginalisation and alienation and usually concern suburbia and the everyday. She has also explored how experience and memories of place can be very transitional and dynamic.
Janine holds numerous qualifications, including a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA.) and, concurrently with her art practice, has a career in Social Psychology. Some of her career highlights in her art practice include being selected as a finalist for the 2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, being awarded the Galloway Lawson Prize, receiving the Alliance Francaise Group Exhibition award and the Tolarno Hotel VCA annual art award, and being listed for the (international) Lumen Prize longlist.
Awards and Nominations
2022 -Finalist, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
2021 - Fine Art Nominee, amateur category, 7th Fine Art Photography Award
2017 - Work accepted for the Lumen Prize Long List
2013 - Galloway Lawson Prize
2011 - The Alliance Francaise Group Exhibition Award
2011 - The Tolarno Hotel VCA Annual Art award
1987 - Australian Psychological Society Prize
Solo Exhibitions
September 2024 (forthcoming - window exhibition) Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
April - May 2022 ‘Transitions’, Black Cat Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
September 2021-January 2022 ‘Solitary Vision’, Ballarat International Foto Biennale Open Program (at Michael Unwin Wines)
October-November 2020 ‘Shadows of Time’, Black Cat Gallery Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
September 2019 ‘Suburban Seclusion’, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
August-September 2018 ‘Transition in Place – An Exploration in Digital Painting’, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
August 2017 ‘Washing Day’ (video projection), The Blender Studios, Docklands, Melbourne
July 2017 ‘All that Glitters’ (Redux), Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
April 2017 ‘All that Glitters’, Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
April 2016 ‘The Suburban Dream’, Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
Group Exhibitions
March 2024 Autumn Harvest, Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Australia.
February 2023 Falling out of Red, Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Australia.
September - November 2022 Bowness Photography Prize Exhibition, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia
January-February 2021 'Of Colour and Light – Women Abstract Artists Biennial. Online exhibition.’ Westend Art Space, West Melbourne.
December 2020 'Goodbye 1.5 meter distancing', Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
April 2020 'PROJECT: 30 days/30 artists, 6 April 2020: Janine McGuinness', online exhibition, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
March 2020 ‘20[2020]’, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia.
19 December 2019 ‘Opening Launch’, DIGHT Creative Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia.
November-December 2019 ‘CCP Ilford Salon’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.
May 2019 'The Blender Flagstaff Launch", Blender Studios, West Melbourne, Australia.
December 2018 'The Blender Studios End of Year Showcase 2018', Blender Studios, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia.
December 2018 'CCP Ilford Salon', Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.
November 2018 ‘Obscuring the Camera. An art exhibition that pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium.’ Noir Darkroom, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
July 2018 ‘Object/Subject’ Blender Pop-up Space, Docklands, Victoria Australia
November 2017‘The Recovery’, The Blender Studios Christmas Party Group Exhibition, Blender Studios, Docklands, Victoria, Australia
November 2017 ‘Linden Postcard Show 2017-18’, Domain House, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
November 2017 ‘Out of Body Experience’, Black Cat Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
November 2013 ‘Masters exhibition’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
September 2012 ‘Alliance Française Award Exhibition’, Alliance Francaise, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
February 2012 ‘Emerging Artists Exhibition’, Hawthorn Studio & Gallery, Hawthorn East, Australia
October 2011 ‘Graduate Exhibition’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
October 2010 ‘Graduate Exhibition’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
November 2010 ‘Meanderings and Recurrent Dreams’, Carbon Black Gallery, Prahran, Melbourne, Australia
Collections
Private Collectors
The Tolarno Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne
Selected Publications/Catalogues
2021 'Of Colour and Light – Women Abstract Artists Biennial. Online exhibition.’ Westend Art Space, West Melbourne. https://westendartspace.com.au/exhibitions_details/of-colour-and-light-biennial-2020-dec-feb/. (Online exhibition catalogue p. 22)
2020 ’20[2020] 4-15 March’ Tacit Art Galleries, Collingwood, Melbourne (exhibition catalogue p. 19)
2018 ‘Obscuring the Camera’ . Noir Darkroom, Coburg, Melbourne. https://www.noirdarkroom.com/gallery/previous-shows/obscuring-the-camera/ . (exhibition catalogue)
2013 “Masters Exhibition”, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art, The University of Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
2011 “Graduate Exhibition”, Victorian College of the Arts,, School of Art, The University of Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
2010 “Graduate Exhibition”, Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art, The University of Melbourne (exhibition catalogue)
2012 “VCA graduates Alliance Francaise Award Exhibition” Alliance Magazine, Sept-Oct-Nov., 2012. http://issuu.com/afmelbourne/docs/alliance-magazine-sep-oct-nov-2012 (online publication)