About the Event
As a 2026 Artist in Residence at Albany’s Historic Whaling Station, Goreng artist, Jennifer Woods’ paintings are grounded in Boodja (Country) not just as landscape, but as living presence. Through layered earth tones, movement and mark-making, Jennifer paints connection, memory and renewal. Each canvas becomes a quiet conversation with Country, a place where sorrow can be held safely and transformed.
For Jennifer, painting is a way of grounding herself, of reconnecting to culture, and of finding strength in moments that words cannot reach. Her work speaks to the power of creativity as healing, and to the deep relationship between wellbeing, culture and Country.
Jennifer’s art invites viewers to slow down, to sit with feeling, and to remember that healing does not always come loudly—but often through gentle, patient acts of creation.
Through Boodja, Jennifer paints her way forward.