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Bob Jenyns
1944 – 2015
Australian Artist
Born Robert Jenyns, in Victoria, Jenyns was a prolific artist whose practice spanned over four decades, in which he produced a large body of work that included sculptures, prints, drawings, and paintings. Jenyns participated in many of Australia’s most significant art exhibitions including the first Biennale of Sydney (1973), the 1973, 1975 and 1978 Mildura Sculpture Triennials, the 1981 Australian Perspecta, the 2nd Australian Sculpture Biennale, and the 1990 Sculpture Triennial. Jenyns was a finalist in the 2006 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, and in 2007 won the award with his work Pont de l’archeveche. He is represented in many of the country’s largest collections, including: the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Watters Gallery’s (where Jenyns exhibited) Director Geoffrey Legge says, “It is with great sadness that we record the death of Robert Jenyns on 16th November. He was such an irrepressible force of indomitable good humour in the face of all contingencies it is hard to believe in, let alone come to terms with, his death. He fought cancer for 21 long months. Even on the operating table he gave cheerful encouragement to the surgeon and nurses. As a sculptor his life was measured out with twenty two solo exhibitions; each exploring his reactions to different subjects, all enjoyable and inventive, all with an apparent simplicity of means which clothed a high level of aesthetic brilliance.
In their characters and dispositions Bob and his wife, Lorraine, were wonderful in quite different ways but together their natures seemed to coalesce and to share and project an immutable and benevolent aura. Our hearts go out to Lorraine and their sons Duke and Ace.”
