Jenny Steiner Artist

31/12/2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS5wpfWktcw/?igsh=YndzNXhrcm9yMzl3

31/12/2025

These words are from my client. Thank you!
I wrote the narrative explaining the artwork and they turned it into poetry.

“When the college commissioned Artist Jenny Steiner to create a piece that would welcome students into the new GPFLA building at our Berwick campus, we had no idea just how magnificent it would be. ✨

This artwork captures a powerful journey of faith, belief and action. 📿

🕊 On the left, the sharp, rectangular glass panels symbolise a severe, dogmatic way of life, where people were boxed in, knew their place, and longed for something more. Their colours echo our house colours and the call of each patron: a deep desire for change, for “rivers of living water” (John 7:37–38) to break in.

On the right, the glass softens into sweeping, intertwined shapes, rivers that meander, include and connect. Here we see community, creativity and shared searching: the sending out to live our faith in action. 🤝

✝️ At the centre, a clear slumped glass form hangs on the cross, rising: the Spirit of Jesus ascending to Heaven, embodying the way of sacrificial love, “No greater love than this” (John 15:13).

Above it all, an enlarged crown of thorns hovers, speaking of both deep suffering and a gateway: a vivid reminder that through Jesus’ sacrifice we are offered a portal to God. 🌿✨
https://zurl.co/9HEcL”

31/12/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JYPKJqSXt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

19/07/2025

Train them young! An investment into the future.
At just 6 and almost 3 my darling grand daughters loved helping me in the workshop, showing great aptitude for the concept of deconstruction 😉. They worked solidly for an hour reclaiming the plasticine and only stopped with the promise of toasted marshmallows. Great work ethic! ❤️

10/07/2025

Yesterday we installed this artwork for Shalom Catholic College in Bundaberg x it’s still a building site and better photos will follow.

‘Common Ground - Education is the Key’
Catherine McAuley and Edmund Rice shared a simpathetic view (a common ground) about the welfare of children
and how to improve their station in life. They both believed that the key to success was education and they set out to build and establish schools where the children of common people, the poor, could attend and become educated.
This piece titled ‘Common Ground / Education is the Key’’ is set in the common ground between the two buildings named after these two
patrons.
Catherine sits on a rock - a huge book with a clasp requiring a key. The book title is ‘Education is the Key’ it is carved
into the stone. The stone edge is shaped to form the cover and pages. The other edge is shaped only in one small
part at the base to form the binding edge with the names of the authors (Catherine McAuley and Edmund Rice)
carved into it.
Catherine is offering the key to unlock the book to whoever is inspired to read it.
This particular key is a replica of the original key to Parade College on Alexandra Parade Melbourne, the first school built by the Christian Brothers on their arrival to Australia.
Edmund Rice stands casually with one foot on the book holding plans of future builds under his arm while in conversation with Catherine.
Education is the key and their common ground.
Edmund Rice Education Australia
Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea
Catholic Education Sandhurst Limited
Diocese of Ballarat Catholic Education Limited (DOBCEL)

10/07/2025

29/03/2025

The MAGNIFICAT CENTRE!
Congratulations to Tim Newcomb and his team at Doreen who blessed and unveiled their second building at Marymede Catholic College Doreen Campus yesterday.
Along with it was our installation depicting the visitation at the entry titled : ‘A Joyous Journey’.
Please read the narrative explaining the meaning behind the symbolism.

“A Joyous Journey”

Mary, a young teen, full of life and love travels from Nazareth to Ein Karem to visit with her much older cousin Elizabeth who is pregnant with her first child (John the Baptist). This has happened at a later stage in life - when all hope of conception had long gone. A very special time for her.

Mary herself is eager to share the news of her own pregnancy - bearing God’s son.

As Mary makes her way toward a stream (later known as Mary’s stream, also known as the stream of the vine), she spots Elizabeth resting on a rock just on the other side. Full of excitement and joy Mary steps over three stones representing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and jumps onto a rock in the stream waving to her cousin. Elizabeth waves back and in that moment is surprised by the kicking of her baby in her womb apparently also sensing a moment of joy in the air. She gazes down at her belly, arm still up in the air.

Along the edge of the stream are 6 posts with glass flowers. These are the 6 virtues of Mary and they sit within the plantings that form Mary’s Meadow (Marymede).

The stream bubbles out of the rock and travels down to the path. There are 8 stepping-stones in the stream that lead up to where Mary stands. They represent the joyous journey she has travelled from Nazareth to Ein Karem. Each stone bears the name of a significant village along the way.

29/07/2024

29/07/2024

Corpus Christi School - Body of Christ! I loved drawing Jesus on a flat piece of metal with my grinder!!

01/01/2024

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1YulnJriMm/?igsh=MXU5emZnczI2bm41MQ==

01/01/2024

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1YtovcLW0J/?igsh=MXBjc2Nib2tpYTZydw==

04/11/2023

Time out for a minute, still have to go to the workshop, but - good morning from Illalangi