Jenny Sages

Jenny Sages is an Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China, who arrived in Australia in 1948. Her family moved to Australia when the power of Chairman Mao became apparent. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art. She won the Wynne Prize in 2005 with "The road to Utopia". Her paintings have also been finalists in the Archibald Prize, with "True Stories - Helen Garner" a finalist in 2003, and she was given a highly commended for the Archibald in 2003 and 2001. She has entered the Archibald at least 15 times, and been hung at least 14 times. She received a highly commended in the Wynne Prize in 1999 with "The Leichhardt".At the age of 52, Jenny Sage began full time painting. She was a freelance writer and illustrator for Vogue Australia until the 1980s before starting painting full time in 1985. She has also been hung in the Blake Prize and Dobell Prize. She won the Portia Geach Memorial Prize twice.

She was interviewed in the 2005 Peter Berner documentary "Loaded Brush".

Her painting "Hossein Valamanesh" was in the 2006 Archibald Prize finalists