CURRICULUM VITAE: W A V E N E Y J E N K I N S

EDUCATION: Benenden School
Academie Julian, Paris
City & Guilds Art School, London
EXHIBITIONS

• 1965-1994 In Malaysia exhibited regularly at National Gallery Malaysia, with shows at Galleri 11, Galeri Rupa, Galeri Citra & Galeri Wan in Kuala Lumpur, at Atelier in Kuching, Dewan Philharmonic in Petaling Jaya, and Club Mediterranne in Pahang.

• 1983-6 In London work exhibited at Tryon Gallery, Jonathan Poole Gallery, Hallam Gallery, Piazotta Gallery & International Contemporary Art Fair;

• 1987 Invited participant in Asian Arts Festival, Bali

• 1992 Travelling exhibition around Asia of Malaysian Women Artists

• 1997/98 & 2000/2012 Works sold at Christie's in London

• 2000 to present Sayle Gallery Artist, Isle of Man

Commissioned works in collections in USA, England, Isle of Man, France, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Hongkong, Japan, Eire, Australia, Chile and Malaysia.

MAJOR COMMISSIONS include:

• Mural (Plaster of Paris, 28' x 8') United Commercial Bank, Kuala Lumpur

• Mural (Aluminium, 15'x7') Ipoh Sports Club

• Mural (Aluminium, 30'15') Pillar Naco Factory, Malaysia (Alcan Art in Architecture Award)

• Mural (Fibreglass,30'x8') Regent Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

• Two Tigers & Cub (Ceramic, life size) Club Med, Malaysia

• Money Mobile (Fibreglass,30') Malayan Banking, Kuala Lumpur

Portraits in bronze include:

• DYMM Sultan Idris Shah, late Sultan of Perak

• TAB Tan Sri Patinggi Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak

• YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister, Malaysia

• The Marquess Conyngham

• Jeffrey Quill, Spitfire Test Pilot (British Aerospace for Southampton Museum)

• The Rt Rev Bishop of Sodor and Man, Noel Jones.

• Dr George Daniels, Horologist,

• Tun Temenggong Juga, Tun Jugah Foundation, Kuching & Kapit Museum

Other areas of interest include working with the Malaysian Heritage Trust, with particular interest in lime mortars; working to safeguard the techniques, motifs and traditions of the wood carvers of the East Coast of Malaysia including organizing an exhibition which toured the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore, the Brunei Gallery in London, Muzium Negara in Kuala Lumpur and Muzium Terengganu in Kuala Trengannu Malaysia. I also helped publish the book - Spirit of Wood and set up the new Akademi Nik Rashiddin in Kelantan which is now becoming a centre for research and information for all carvers, researchers and scholars. I also worked with my husband Peter to produce a book cataloguing the prewar Planters Bungalows in Malaysia, the architecture, the lives and the stories of the people who worked in them.