Summary
In Australia Jasmine’s work has been presented nationally by Linden New Art, West Space, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Alcaston Gallery, Craft Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Craft ACT, ANU and Cairns Regional Gallery.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Wonderland at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei TAIWAN, the Aesthetica Art Prize LONDON and Runway: Australian Experimental Art, Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna AUSTRIA
Jasmine’s work has been awarded the Latrobe Regional Gallery Acquisitive Art Prize and Senini Sculpture Prize from McClelland Gallery. Her work is held in public and private collections including Latrobe Regional Gallery and Gippsland Art Gallery.
Jasmine’s expanded practice includes commissioned artworks for international festivals, art fairs, public sculptures and site-specific works for public and private art collections. Morgan-Ryan has completed commissioned works for the Australia Council for the Arts, the City of Melbourne, Creative Spaces, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art and Incinerator Art Gallery.
Her work Blindspot, 2014 will go on permanent display at Gippsland Art Gallery in Spring 2025.
Upcoming
2025 Turner and Australia, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC. Curated by Simon Gregg.
Solo Exhibitions - Selected
2019 Vision Quest: A Portal Opens, Immerse Commission, Civic Atrium, Knoxfield VIC
2018 Super Ecology, Stockroom Kyneton VIC
2015 The Politics of Perception, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell VIC
The Catchments Project, LAB-14, Carlton Connect for Art+Climate=Change festival VIC
Into Nature, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC
2014 Blind Spot, Linden New Art, St Kilda VIC
2012 Crumbling Ecologies, Craft, Melbourne VIC
2011 Making Sense, Federation Square Urban Screens and Craft, Melbourne VIC
Bubbling Up, Dianne Tanzer Gallery Project Space, Fitzroy, VIC
2010 Losing the Unique, Shifted Gallery, Richmond VIC
Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford VIC
Group Exhibitions - Selected
2025 Turner and Australia, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC. Curated by Simon Gregg.
2022 Degrees of Concern, Australian National University, School of Art and Design Gallery, ACT. Curated by Megan Hinton and Irina Agaronyan.
2021 Fire Flow, Craft, Melbourne VIC. Curated by Eliza Tiernan.
2020 Art Aid, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale VIC.
Light and Life, NGV Design Festival, Bright Space Gallery, St Kilda VIC. Curated by Ilan El.
Every Artist Ever, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton VIC.
2019 Sea Change: Tree Change, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne VIC.
Space, Gippsland Art Gallery. Curated by Simon Gregg – Director Gippsland Art Gallery.
2018 Mixed Tape, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton VIC.
2017 Every Second Feels Like A Century, West Space. Curated by Debbie Pryor + Hannah Presley.
Time and Tide, Alcaston Gallery for Art + Climate = 2017, Melbourne VIC.
2016 Sign O’ the Times, NotFair Art Fair. Curated by Kirsten Rann.
Hero Worship, Craft. Curated by Debbie Pryor and Hannah Presley.
Aesthetics in a time of Emergency, Craft ACT.
2015 Elemental, McClelland Gallery, Curated by Erin Wilson and Penny Teale, Senior Curator.
Sinister Beauty, Strange Neighbour Gallery, Curated by Linsey Gosper.
Emerging Contemporaries, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT.
Aesthetica Art Prize, London UK.
2014 Vision Quest - Knowledge, Runway: Australian Experimental Art,Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna AUSTRIA.
2014 Compassionate Voices, Koskela, Waterloo NSW. Curated by Liane Rossler.
2012 Wonderland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei TAIWAN. Curated by Annie Ivanova.
Us and Them: Umwelten, RMIT ProjectSpace, Melbourne VIC. Curated by Catherine Clover & Jen Rae.
Launch, Glass Artists Gallery, NSW.
2011 Media Specific, Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield VIC.
2010 Greater than One, Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield VIC.
Selected Award Exhibitions
2019 Deakin Small Sculpture Prize, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood VIC.
Footscray Art Prize, Footscray VIC.
Collins Place Summer Salon, Melbourne VIC.
2015 Aesthetica Art Prize, London UK.
Victorian Craft Award, Craft Victoria, Melbourne VIC.
2014 Linden Postcards Exhibition, Linden Center for Contemporary Art, St Kilda VIC.
Incinerator Art Prize, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC.
Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA.
Senini Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin VIC.
2013 Manningham Ceramic Art Award, Manningham VIC.
Artecycle, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds VIC.
2012 Australian National Glass Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Wagga Wagga NSW.
2011 Tom Malone Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA.
2010 Australian National Glass Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Wagga Wagga NSW.
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Williamstown VIC.
Ranamok Glass Prize, Canberra Glassworks ACT, Cairns Regional Gallery QLD Artspace Mackay QLD, Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery QLD.
2009 Senini Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park VIC.
Awards, Grants, Residencies, Commissions - Selected.
2019 Immerse Commission, Vision Quest: A Portal Opens, Civic Atrium, Knoxfield VIC.
2016 NAVA Australian Artist Publication Grant - Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency, Craft ACT.
2015 Arts Project Grant and Artist in Residence, The Catchments Project, Carlton Connect.
Studio: LAB-14, Creative Spaces Melbourne, Funded by the City of Melbourne.
For CLIMARTE Festival: Art + Climate = Change.
2014 Winner - Senini Sculpture Prize, McClelland Gallery VIC.
2013 New Work Grant, Early Career Artist, Visual Arts Board Australia Council for the Arts.
Australian Postgraduate Award for Post Graduate Research, Monash University (2011–2013).
2012 Arts Project Grant, City of Melbourne.
Monash University Research Publication Grant (also 2011, 2009).
2010 Emerging Artist Grant, City of Melbourne.
2008 Winner - Latrobe Regional Gallery Acquisitive Contemporary Art Award.
Publications - Selected.
2021 Fire Flow: Glass Resurgence, NGV Design Festival Exhibition Catalogue, by Eliza Tiernan.
2018 Climate and Art by Erica Allis, UN World Meteorological Organisation.
2017 Art + Climate=Change edited by Guy Abrahams, Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gellatly.
2015 The Catchments Project by Emma Mayall.
The Politics of Perception by Guy Abrahams.
The Urgency of our Time by Dr David Sequeira.
2014 Runway: Australian Experimental Art – Vision Quest by Jasmine Targett (Vienna Art Week).
2012 No Part is Immune From the Changes of its Counterparts by Antoanetta Ivanova.
Jasmine Targett in Wonderland by John Gregory.
Porcelain Persuasions by Miriam McGarry.
The Crumbling Ecologies Project by Debbie Pryor.
Collaboration Continuity and Community by Alicia Renew.
The Remarkable Beauty in Disaster by Dr Kit Wise.
New Perspectives in Environmental Art by Assoc. Professor Linda Williams.
Public Projects - Selected.
2025 Gippsland Art Gallery – Blind Spot, 2014. In-Building public artwork launching Spring 2025, Sale VIC.
2021 Knox City Council - Public Artwork Commission - Vision Quest: Butterfly Effect, Knoxfield VIC.
2019 Knox City Council - Public Artwork Commission Vision Quest: A Portal Opens, Knoxfield VIC.
2015 City of Melbourne Arts Projects - Catchments Project, Lab-14, Art + Climate= Change. Melbourne VIC.
2014 Incinerator Gallery Public Artwork Commission, Vision Quest: Into Nature, Moonee Ponds VIC.
2013 Australia Council for the Arts Project - Blind Spot, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art St Kilda VIC.
2012 City of Melbourne Arts Project - Crumbling Ecologies Project, exhibited Craft. Melbourne VIC.
2010 City of Melbourne Arts Projects - Life Support Systems, Craft. Melbourne VIC.
Professional Related Experience.
2021 MPavilion MTALKS - Art as Action: Ecology, Resilience and Sustainability.
2021 Presenter - Fire Flow - Panel discussion. Craft for NGV Design Week.
2019 - 2014 Gallery Assistant – Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery.
2018 Artwork profiled and presented by the United Nations and World Meteorological Organization for COP24 Climate Change Conference.
2017 - 2015 World Crafts Council Australia - Board Member.
2015 Project Director – The Catchments Project, Lab-14 for the City of Melbourne.
2014 - 2013 Research Project Director - Blind Spot for Australia Council for the Arts.
2012 Research Project Director and Facilitator – The Crumbling Ecologies Project, Monash University and Craft.
2012 Lecture - Research Symposium: Art, Activism and Social Change. Monash University.
2011 Judging Panel – Fresh Awards 2011. Craft.
2011 Project Director and Facilitator – Research Symposium: Art and Communicating Climate Science Symposium. Craft.
Participant - Tipping Point. Melbourne.
2010 Research Project - Life Support Systems: Collaboration with NASA Satellite Data Centre & CBS Glass.
2010 Research Project - The Similarity of Parallel Worlds: Collaboration with NASA and MMI.
Academic History.
2014 PhD Fine Arts, Monash University.
2010 Silversmithing, NMIT.
2009 Hot Glass (Flame Working), Monash University.
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours, Monash University.
2007 Hot Glass (Glass Blowing), Monash University.
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting, Monash University.
2004 Diploma of Visual Arts, Box Hill Tafe.
Press / Media - Selected.
2018 Climate and Art by Erica Allis, UN World Meteorological Organisation.
2018 Art Guide - Jasmine Targett - Super Ecology by Nadiah Abdulrahim.
2015 The Age - Melbourne artists line up 1000 clear bottles for The Catchments Project by Suzanne Carbone.
2015 The Sydney Morning Herald - Craft Review: Emerging Contemporaries by Kerry-Anne Cousins.
2015 The Corning Museum of Glass - 100 Best New Artworks in the World, New Glass Review.
2014 The Sydney Morning Herald – Innovators 1 by Dan Rule.
2014 The Sydney Morning Herald – Fear of the Future by Dylan Rainforth.
2014 Craft Unbound – Looking through the Blind Spot by Jasmine Targett.
2014 The Design Writer - Charity Art and Design Auction for Animals by Penny Craswell.
2012 The Age - A Dying Art? by Dylan Rainforth.
2012 Vogue Living – The Crumbling Ecologies Project, by Madeleine Hinchy.
2012 Lip Magazine – Crumbling Ecologies: Craft Community, Fragility, by Emma Koehn.
2012 Monash University Press – Space travel meets art in reflective exhibition, by Emily Walker.
2012 Australian Art Collector – Australian Artists Exhibit in Taiwan, by Jane O’Sullivan.
2011 New Scientist – Dazzling glass reveals hidden crises on Earth, by Wendy Zukerman.
2011 Beyond Zero Emissions Radio – Symons+Targett: Artists+Scientists Collaborate on Climate Change.
2012 Progress Leader - A Glass Above, by Holly McKay.
2011 Carbon Arts - Making Sense, Jasmine Targett & Debbie Symons by Jodi Newcomb.
2011 Monash University Press – Art vs. Science by Emily Walker.
2010 University WA, SymbioticA Symposium: Unruly Ecologies – Featured Artist- Jasmine Targett.
2010 Craft Arts International, No 79 - Pre-Text by Anita Taylor.
2010 Craft Arts International, No 76 – Questions of Scalability by Gordon Bull.
2010 Artabase, Editorial - Jasmine Targett - Glass Artist by Rebecca Cannon.
2010 Melbourne Jeweller - Losing the Unique: Shifted Gallery, Richmond by Karen Thompson.
2010 Melbourne Jeweller - Inside the Realm of Invisible Spheres at c3 by Karen Thompson
Documentaries and Online Media.
2015 The Catchments Project Documentary, produced by The City of Melbourne.
2015 Jasmine Targett featured in the Incinerator Art Award, produced by Incinerator Gallery.
2015 The Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change produced by Incinerator Gallery.
2010 Jasmine Targett featured in the Ranamok Glass Prize 2010, produced by ABC News ACT and NSW.
Selected Professional Memberships.
NAVA 2008 - 2025.
Craft Victoria 2008 - 2025.
Synapse – The Australian Network for Art and Technology ANAT.