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

Group:
- 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 21st-April 2nd 2006
"Efflorescence"
- Loose Canon Gallery, Hamilton, ON, December-January 2005-2006
Solo:
- 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
Publications:
Books
- 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
Journals
- "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
Freelance and Illustration:
- 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
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