As a multi-disciplined artist, Jayne McSwiney’s practice is driven by concept. Each idea chooses its own language, and she follows where it leads. Taking personal experience as a starting reference, her recent work focuses on threshold places, those intersections between the divine and the human, destruction and renewal, and descent and return.

Jayne McSwiney has exhibited internationally, from Sydney to the Netherlands, and her works have been shown in galleries such as Holmes a Court Gallery, May Space, Bureau Europa, Linden Gallery, and Margaret Lawrence Gallery. Her work has also been performed and shown outside the conventions of the gallery space.

She was winner of the prestigious Fiona Myer Award for excellence. She has also been shortlisted as a finalist for art prizes such as The Mandorla Art Award 2024, The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 2015, The Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Research Award and the Windsor Prize 2014; her work was shortlisted for safARI (Sydney Biennale) 2016. Jayne was also awarded the Victorian College of the Arts, Masters scholarship for 2014.

Jayne recently completed a 3-month artist residency at Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin, where she was awarded an artist studio space.

McSwiney holds a Master of Contemporary Art, VCA, (First Class Honours), a Graduate Certificate of Visual Art (VCA, First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Graphic and Product Design (HONS) from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

Jayne’s work is held in private collections in Australia and Northern Ireland.