JENNIFER
KEMARRE
Martiniello

Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello is an award winning multidisciplinary artist of Aboriginal (Southern Arrernte), Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. As an internationally recognized glass artist her works are held in major private and public collections in Australia, the UK, USA, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific.

Her awards include the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2013, the Bay of Fires Arts Prize 2016. She has been a finalist in the Tom Malone, Hindmarsh, Fuse Art Glass, Ranamok and Waterhouse Prizes. She has received Canberra Critics Awards for both Literature and Visual Arts and received Creative Arts Fellowships from artsACT and the Australia Council for the Arts. Jennifer is an Australian Design Award Honouree 2015, and has been recognised for her community arts and cultural development work with an ACT International Womens Day Award 2010, inclusion on the ACT Centenary Honour Role 2013, ACT Womens Honour Role 2014 and ACT Senior Australian of the Year nomination in 2018.

In literature her poetry, short stories and essays have been widely published journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Her work has been included in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, she has judged both the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, including the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Literature, and represented Australia as an Indigenous Australian writer at the Festival of Pacific Arts in Palau 2004 and the Solomon Islands in 2012.