Jaqueline Jackie

Jacqueline Jacky is a Gamilaroi and Dunghutti woman living and working on Bidjigal and Gadigal lands.

The topics of colonialisation, places, sites, storytelling, yarning, memory, cultural preservation, health, and wellbeing are all explored in Jacky’s soft sculptures, printmaking, screenprints, and moving images. To educate and effect change inside the colonial state known as “Australia,” her work allows storytelling and cultural knowledge to create change and educate people. In addition, Jacky uses yarning as a means of showcasing the memories and history of her family and peoples. Jacky would like to further explore how storytelling and creating can help with an individual’s health and wellbeing.

Jacky received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from UNSW Art and Design. Additionally, she has participated in an array of exhibitions between 2019-2025. She received the Jenny Birt Award in 2023 for her piece That Place They Had (Part 1). After winning the First Nations Prize Highly Commended at the 2024 Blacktown City Art Prize, this piece of art, That Place They Had (Part 1), was added to the permanent collection of the Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.

In 2024, Jacky made the decision to travel abroad and spend a month at the Montemero Art Residency in the southern region of Spain. The place gave Jacky the opportunity to create a body of work, have access to printmaking facilities, and interact with people from various artistic backgrounds. While residing in the Montemero Finca, Jacky produced a body of work that uses yarning, journaling, printmaking, and writing to explore psychogeography within her life and others.

Later in 2025, Jacky became a member at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, she hopes to continue connecting with other artist and Indigenous artist community.

Jacky is currently working as a research assistant for Fabri Blacklock at the Univeristy of New South Wales. Jacky will continue her path of creating and exploring her artistic practice of storytelling and slowly creating awareness of Indigenous culture through her art.