Jenna Eriksen is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Eriksen’s practice and sensibilities incorporate multiple creative modalities to form rich cinematic scenes across the medium of still images, video art and films. Exploring depictions of tragedy, destruction and rebirth, Jenna is fascinated with landscape photography, creating poetic imagery with a reflective perspective. Eriksen’s work attempts to capture photographic memory, the embodiment of vulnerability, the act of succumbing to external forces. With a painterly style and the use of large scale canvases Jenna’s work investigates trauma and relationship to space - to extended portholes we might recognise within ourselves.
Passionate about the intersection of art and film culminating in interdisciplinary immersive experiences. She has exhibited internationally across, Australia, Japan, USA, and New Zealand. With an extensive and eclectic skillset from working on a range of commercial content, short films, music videos and NZ on Air funded videos. Her work has been selected for the BBC Music Video Festival and the Berlin Music Video Awards.
Clients include Modular Records and Flying Nun, Clemenger BBDO, TBWA, Truce Films, Guilty, The Sweetshop, & ANZ. Part of Award winning projects selected for the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Music Video Awards, BBC Music Video Festival & Sydney Film Festival.
Jenna holds a Master of Fine Arts in the Creative Practice of Film with Distinction, from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Available for commission work, please get in touch and say hello(at)jennaeriksen.com
Featured Artist Auckland Festival of Photography 2024
Kōwhai Artist Residency, Tokyo Institute of Photography & Auckland Festival of Photography with funding from Asia New Zealand Foundation 2023
NZFC / NZCS Virtual Production Workshop November 2022
Screen Accelerator Program - Lane St Studios 2022
360 Projection Artist Residency at MAP Mima, Lake Macquarie AUS June 2022
NZFC Big Screen Symposium Scholarship 2022
Featured Artist | Te Wāhi o Te Papa Whakāta, Urban Dreams Brokerage Programme, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, July | 2022
Experimental Dance film “Volatilis” programmed with aCineSpace, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA 2022.
Public outcome “Current” exhibited with A Strange Space, Midsumma Festival MEL, AUS 2021
Research Fellow, NZ School of Music 2021
A Strange Space Group Exhibition, 2021 - Centre for Projection Art, Melbourne
Featured Artist with HoloArt NYC Centre’s Global show Light Windows in 2020 during pandemic.
Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Resident 2020, mentored by Bridie Lunney & Yandell Walton. MEL, AUS.
Featured Artist of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2019 AUS,
‘Volatilis” projected on site 10, Charcoal Lane.
Where Bodies Act The Landscape - Brunswick St Gallery’s MIDSUMMA Exhibition Jan 2020
Plant, People, Place Exhibition Group Show with the The Plant Exchange December 2019
Gertrude Street Projection Festival - Exhibiting Artist 2019
Volatilis - Shortlisted for AESTHETICA Film Festival London 2019
Iceland Reyjavik Film Festival Assistant - 2017
Berlin Music Video Awards - Runner Up Best LoFi 2015
BBC Music Video Festival Selection 2015
NZFC Cinefem Scholarship - Shortlisted 2015
*Further credits and references available on request.
