I’m Jennifer Cox
I grew up on the Atherton Tablelands specifically Yungaburra. After leaving school at Atherton High, I studied Psychology at James Cook University in Townsville. There I completing my honours and moved to Sydney where I worked for various Market Research companies. While in Sydney I studied at AWARD ( Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association) graduating in 2001. After about 4 years in Market Research, I got a job in marketing, working as the Marketing Manager for PixiFoto and Portrait Place. Some time later my husband was transferred to Brisbane where I worked as a Marketing Manager for Roy Gripske and Sons. During this time, I completed a diploma in Graphic Design and Advertising at CATC ( Commercial Arts Training College). I am now raising a family and I have returned to my hometown as I wanted my children to have the childhood I had. I have been running my own design and marketing business for 12 years.
This is the official website for my art. I make a lot of websites for other people, but this one is just for me. No wonder it took 10 years to make and still looks a bit dodgy. I have always been an artist in some form or another my whole life, drawing, crafting and absorbing as much art I could take, I just had to work in a creative field. After almost 5 years in Market Research, which although was creative in some way it wasn’t exactly what I wanted, I felt like there was something missing so I studied Graphic Design and Advertising at night and took a Marketing Communications job. I loved creating anything on a computer even if it was commercial and now I am a Graphic and Web Designer with a Marketing Strategy background and working for myself at home. I have been satisfied for a while, but as time has gone on people want less and less creativity in websites. The formula is basically fixed now and besides colours and images there isn’t much scope to try something different. Clients want functionality, they want sales, they want RESULTS! I missed the old days when sites were new and every one could be a new adventure . So I started looking at digital art, glitch sites and ugly sites and all sorts of way of making art with computers and merging them with reality. I have always been fascinated with games and virtual reality. I once got to try VR in the late 90s, it was pretty boxy and the 3D effect didn’t really work, but I liked the idea. I saw a digital art installation at Melbourne Gallery that was a VR set, I had been playing with 360 images on facebook and I got to think. Why not do art in 360! Then the viewer could be IN the picture! A frenzied late night photoshop all nighter got me Down the Rabbit Hole. I pitched the idea about a year later to the local council as an online exhibition and I got a grant and here we are!
This is my version of an online exhibition. It isn’t perfect and probably will change so keep coming back. My experiments and mistakes are live for all to see! If things don’t work or look weird send me a message. But be cool, this is for fun, you aren’t paying me to screw up, besides, maybe it is supposed to be that way 😉