Anna Jalanski

Artist

Djilang/Geelong

She/Her

Website: annajalanski.art

Follow: @annajalanski.art

ARTIST RESIDENCY:

Current – 2026 – ‘STUDIO LAB 2026’, Platform Arts, Geelong, VIC. Duration 6 months.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2026 – WORN, untether gallery, Geelong, VIC

2025 – Together We Are Antifragile 2025, Fyansford Paper Mill, Geelong, VIC

2025 – Femme Locales, BSIDE Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2025 – Linden Postcard Show 2024-2025, St Kilda, VIC

2024 – Summer Dreaming, untether gallery, Geelong, VIC

2024 – Try & See a Half Baked Exhibition, MAY’D Festival Creative Geelong, The House, Geelong, VIC.

2024 – Small Art Treasures, Colac Botanical Gardens, Colac, VIC.

2024 – Exhibition For Ants – Small works, unassigned gallery, Brunswick, VIC

2024 – After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, Geelong, VIC

2023 – ART PRIZE 2023, Liminal Gallery, Geelong, VIC

2022 – Fishtail, Nicholas Building, Melbourne, Collaborative Work.

2022 – After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, Geelong, VIC. Curated by Illana Russell and Amber Smith.

2021 – Home Screen, George Paton Gallery. Melbourne, VIC. Curated by Irregular Scheduled Programming.

2021 – Hatched: National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Perth, WA. Curated by Miranda Johnson.

2021 – Materializm, Missing Person’s Gallery, Melbourne CBD. Organised by Musee du Strip, Curated by Matthew Ware.

2021 – UNBOUND, Gallery 17, St Kilda, VIC. Curated by the Gallery 17 Collective.

2020 – Buxton Screening Program VCA Art 2020, Buxton Contemporary, Southbank, VIC. Selected by John Meade, Simone Slee, Melissa Keys (Curator at Buxton Contemporary). Video Curation by Youjia Lu.

2020 – VCA ART 2020, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Sculpture (Graduate Exhibition), Southbank VCA Campus, Melbourne.

2020 – Leftovers, VCA Artspace (Instagram: @vcaartspace) Online Exhibition. Curated & organised with my peers. View my work: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGg77JrjJYr/

EDUCATION:

2020 – 2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture & Spatial Practice VCA, Melbourne.

2017 – Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT, Melbourne.

2016 – Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT, Melbourne.

2015 – Certificate IV in Visual Arts, RMIT, Melbourne.

ARTIST TALKS:

2025 – Exhibition Opening Night for Femme Locales, BSIDE Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC.

AWARDS:

2020 – Recipient of a Fiona Myer Award. This award is for excellence.

2020 – Recipient of the Yvonne Cohen Sculpture Scholarship. This award is for excellence.

PUBLICATIONS:

Angel Reader #2, Compiled by artists Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan, Printed Booklet, Invisible Writing: Writing from sensory perspectives, pg 27 – 30, 2022. Poetic text and drawings, made in Angel Writing workshops held at Platform Arts Geelong.

Hatched 2021 National Graduate Show, Catalogue, Pg 17 – 18, 2021. https://pica.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hatched2021-Catalogue-Digital.pdf.

Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts, MeMo Review, written by Ella Worth, 16 December, 2020. https://mass.memoreview.net/reviews/vca-sculpture-by-ella-worth.

States of tension, the timeless and the everyday, VCA ART 2020 Tour, written by Dr Simon Maidment, 2020. https://art2020.finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/tours/states-of-tension-the-timeless-and-the-everyday.

COMMISSIONS:

2024 – ‘Atlas’ – Outdoor Sculpture, Private Client, Melbourne, VIC.

2019-2020 – ‘757 Art Project’, Stop 1 Building (757), Melbourne University Parkville Campus. Artwork description: Large scale drawing, on windows and door entry, 2m x 6m. Commissioned by head of staff, Alastair Ingham. Curated by Eliza Dyball, Aislinn Faulkner and Sorcha Delahunty.