About Anne-Marie Jean

Anne-Marie Jean was awarded a PhD in practice led research, painting, from the ANU School of Art and Design in 2024. She completed her BA. Hons (painting), ANU School of Art (1996). She located her studio, exhibiting and tertiary teaching practices in New Zealand from 2000 to 2013, returning to Kamberri/Canberra to extend creative practice through PhD research at ANU in 2013.

Jean’s work contributes to a contemporary field of art-making concerned with human/nature inter-relations. Drawing on outdoor fieldwork she deconstructs Western landscape frameworks using painting, collage, and recently, ceramics — employing innovative pictorial structures and multi-materiality to create embodied response.

Field-research and residencies have animated Jean’s practice over 30 years, highlights including; Monet’s Garden, France (2014); Lanyon Historic Homestead ( 2017-18) followed by an Australian Government Regional Arts Funded exhibition at Tuggeranong Arts Centre; and in 2024 an artsACT Japan research trip.

Since completing her PhD Jean has expanded her creative practice into writing and curating. In 2025 she curated Material Nature at the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery. Over the past decade Jean has written regularly on contemporary visual arts and artists, including for ANU’s Drill Hall Gallery Publications and Art Monthly Australasia Magazine. She lives on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country and works at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery as Communications and Outreach Coordinator, with curatorial responsibilities.