Jazz Money (b. 1992 Cammeraygal Country/Sydney, l. Gadigal Country/Sydney) is an artist, poet and filmmaker of Wiradjuri/Irish heritage. Their cross-disciplinary practice speaks to language, narrative and First Nations’ legacies of place. Via agile poetics and moving images Money’s work is an energetic vessel for the oral tradition of story-telling of First Nations cultures which over millennia has been the living instrument of care on and for this continent.
Money’s work has been published, exhibited, screened and performed (spoken and sung) widely in some of the most prestigious venues and cultural festivals internationally. Their first published collection of poetry, the best-selling how to make a basket (University of Queensland Press), was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award for best writing of the year by an unpublished Indigenous writer. Money's second collection of poetry, mark the dawn, was published by UQP in 2024 and in 2025 a children's book illustrated by fellow artist Jason Phu, The Frog's First Song.
Money was a One Year Studio Artist at Artspace Sydney, in 2024. She was the recipient of the 2021 RE/Vision commission with the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia. The resulting work, WINHANGANHA (a Wiradjuri word that loosely translates to ‘remember, know, think’), premiered in 2023. Money’s three channel video projection infinite iterative piece was exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (touring), as part of the exhibition Between Waves, curated by Jessica Clark.
Key exhibitions
Collections
Artbank
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Fondation Opale (CH)
La Trobe Art Institute, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Macquarie Bank
University of Sydney Libraries, Sydney
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