Art Post Uki

A SURPRISING PLACE FOR SURPRISING ART

ART POST UKI is a gallery space dedicated to showing the work of artists from Uki and surrounding areas in what is a truly unusual venue, the 1909 heritage-listed Uki Post Ofﬁce. The exhibitions are curated by an independent panel of artists including a local artist, with a mission to build community and engage visitors.

Now Exhibiting

‘Familiar Ground’
paintings by Jenna-Lee Balk

9 January to 12 February 2025

Pushing the boundaries of landscape painting

Jenna-Lee Balk is an artist of the Tweed and Bryon Shires, an art teacher and a busy young Mum, who creates landscapes with a difference.
For the last year Jenna has been pushing the boundaries and breaking away from the traditional landscape. She has reduced her pallet to only 2 or 3 colours. The result: stunning monochrome rainforest paintings in subtle shades of grey, green or rusty red.
Her paintings are also as much as about negative spaces surrounding the objects she paints as about the solid objects themselves.
By giving equal importance to the positive and negative spaces she manages to project an abstract quality which make her landscapes exciting and compelling.
Jenna-Lee has been exhibiting widely across the Tweed Valley and Bryon Bay hinterland since 2021. These days she has her own studio, Little White Studio, where she paints and teaches.