Jessica
Hiemstra-van der Horst

About the Artist

Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst lives in Melbourne, Australia. A piece of her heart is still in British Columbia (Canada). She intends to rejoin it eventually.

Selected Exhibitions

• Brunswick Street Gallery, Works on Paper Melbourne, Australia, May 2010
• Cube Gallery, Great Big Smalls III Ottawa ON, December 2007
  
• Cube Gallery Ottawa, ON, March 21^st-April 2^nd 2006
    "Efflorescence"
• Loose Canon Gallery, Hamilton, ON, December-January 2005-2006

• ebar Guelph ON, April 1 - June 2, 2008
• Red Brick Cafe Guelph ON, March 1 - April 6, 2008
• Parkdale Gallery Ottawa ON, February 13 - March 9, 2008
• "Gesture" RUC Gallery, Hamilton ON, Nov 9-30 2007
• Manhattan's Music Club, Guelph ON,June 2007
  
• Private Exhibition and Sale, Hamilton ON, March 2006
• Hamilton Central Public, Hamilton ON, October 2005
    "Close to the Ground: Impressions from Bayfront"
• Eric's Custom Picture Framing Limited, Edmonton, AB, July 2004
• Swizzlesticks Spa and Salon, Edmonton, AB, June 2004
• Zocalo Gallery of Courtyard Surprises Edmonton, AB, May 2004
• Sugar Bowl Edmonton, AB, February 2002
• Edmonton Art Walk Edmonton, AB August 2002
• Great Little Bread Co. Peterborough, ON May 2000
• Two Rooms Café Edmonton, AB October 1999
• Café la Gare Edmonton, AB September 1999
• Sugar Bowl Edmonton, AB December 1998

• Anatomy for the Artist, poems and illustrations by Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst Greenboathouse Press 2009
• "Seven points of departure beginning with frog" (essay) in Approaches to Poetry: The pre-poem moment edited by Shane Neilson, Frog Hollow Press 2009
• Excerpts from Gerald, God and the Chickens, poems and illustrations by Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Frog Hollow Press 2008

• "I'm told the telephone was an inevitability, and harnessing" The Malahat Review Fall or Winter Issue 2010
• "Eadward Muybridge captured motion by making it still" Branch Magazine (Check it out on-line) Volume 2.2, 2010
• "I told my first stranger I was pregnant" Room Volume 33.1 2010
• "Eating quince with musicians" Descant Summer Issue 2010 (D149)
• "What did I bring from the old country? Another way."; "I migrate to the tea-kettle, the window-- in search"; "I continue to look for God and I wonder" Red Berry Review
  Vol 1.2 2010
• "Confessions to my sweetheart regarding a piece of meat" Dandelion Magazine
  Vol 35.2 2010
• "The most beautiful things I've seen in October" sub-Terrain Magazine Forthcoming 2010
• "I'm afraid and it's not just the disappearance of bees, a premature lament in four stanzas" Grain Magazine Volume 36.3 2009
• "The day Mom failed to rescue Icarus from the Dutch","In my mother's house when we said sorry" Prairie Fire Magazine Volume 30.2 2009
• "Getting out of the house,"" "Prescriptions for Katherine (not your real name)," "How to cut a chicken into little pieces", Carousel Magazine, Issue 23 2008
• "Anatomy for the artist," "The starting point of any description of human anatomy," The Malahat Review, Issue 163 2008
• "Georgia, I'm sorry you're dead," "Georgia's recipes, somehow," "Georgia's pelvis III and IV," The Antigonish Review Issue 154 2008
• "Some thoughts on stuffed pikes, panties, and other great works of art" Fifty3 Magazine, Feature article, Vol 7 Issue 4, 2007
• "Just for a Whiff of Linseed Oil," Room Volume 30.1 2006

• Cover image Dandelion Magazine 35.2
• Illustration for Wonk (4) 2010
• Cover image One crow sorrow by Lisa Martin-DeMoor Spring 2008, Brindle and Glass
• Chapbook cover images, The Olive Poetry Reading Series, 2005-ongoing
• Drawing for Mizuki, Broadsheet, Poem by Shane Neilson, 2008, Frog Hollow Press
• Cover image for In the Presence of Each Other, University of Toronto Press, Dr.Johanna Kuyvenhoven, May 2009
• Edmonton John Howard Society, pamphlet illustration, 2004
• Vriend’s Organic Farm, Calendar, 2004
• Zocalo Gallery of Courtyard Surprises, product illustration, 2003-ongoing
• Oceanna Music, for Beginning Band Basics Instrumental Theory Workbooks, illustrations, 2003
• Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, logo, 2003
• Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues,illustrated manual: Community Consultation in the Planning and Development Process, 2003
• Vancouver Storytelling Association, Promotional materials for the Vancouver Storytelling Festival, 2001
• Fred J Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels, tour bus painting, 1999