Gareth Sion Jenkins

​Gareth is a poet, installation artist and publisher. Gareth’s first poetry collection was published by
5 Islands Press in 2019. Recipes for the Disaster won the Anne Elder Award and was highly commended in the Mary Gilmore Prize. Gareth’s second book, The Inclination Compass, a multimedia poetic narrative, was published in 2023 with Puncher and Wattman. 

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His immersive art installations involve poetic sound compositions, electronics, video, UV-light, and sculptural assemblages.  With collaborator Kathryn Cowen, he was a finalist in the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, a feature artist at Cementa24 and has recently created Serendipia, at Yarrila Arts and Museum - Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery.

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In 2020 Gareth founded the archive and small press Apothecary Archive, where he specialises in designing, editing and publishing poetic books that often bring text and image into conversation.

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Gareth’s doctorate focused on writers and artmakers who experience mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. Gareth selected and edited The Toy of the Spirit - the collected works of the prolific artmaker Anthony Mannix, published in 2019. This was done in close collaboration with Anthony.

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Gareth teaches creative writing at Macquarie University and runs school-based writing workshops with Westwords.

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