Jan Senbergs is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. He has been honored with several major institutional exhibitions, including Jan Senbergs: Observation-Imagination, a comprehensive retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Born in Latvia in 1939, Jan Senbergs arrived in Australia in 1950. He completed an apprenticeship in silk-screen printing and began exhibiting in the early 1960s. In 1966 he held his first exhibition at Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney and later that year was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship.
In 1973 he represented Australia at the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil, the first of many honours in an illustrious career including a special commission for a large-scale relief-mural for the High Court of Australia in Canberra in 1980, holding the position of member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council from 1984-1987, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1984-1989 and in 1989 he was appointed the Visiting Professor – Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Boston, USA.
In 1993 a major survey exhibition, Imagined Sites – Imagined Realities was held at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, and he was awarded the William Dobell Drawing Prize by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney the same year. In 2006, a major exhibition surveying his drawing practice was curated by Elizabeth Cross for the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and toured regional Australia in 2007.
In 2008, the Art Gallery of New South Wales hosted the survey exhibition Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter to document Jan’s development as an artist over the past 25 years.
Jan Senbergs’ work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia and in all state galleries in Australia. Internationally his work is included in the collections of the National Gallery, Washington D.C; Wadsworth-Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas among others. He is the subject of the major monograph entitled Voyage and Landfall by Patrick McCaughey.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2020 | Not Quite the Last Picture Show, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2018 | Here & There: An Exhibition of Recent Works, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2016 | Retrospective Exhibition, Jan Senbergs: Observation – imagination, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Jan Senbergs & Chris Wallace-Crabbe: Those Imagined Cities, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne | |
| Drawings, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 2015 | HEAT – FIRE – SMOKE, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2013 | Cruise Ships Don’t Come to Melbourne Much, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2012 | Print Workshop, Melbourne |
| 2011 | Recent Works: Through the Imagination, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| Geelong Re-imagined and Observed works from the West Coast, Deakin University Art Gallery, Victoria | |
| 2009 | Capriccios, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2008 | Jan Senbergs: From Screenprinter to Painter, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 2007 | Angahook – Otway, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Jan Senbergs Drawing, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria and touring in 2007 |
| 2005 | Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney |
| 2004 | Long Arm Drawing, Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales |
| Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2003 | Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales |
| Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| 2002 | Jan Senbergs, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne |
| Long Arm Drawing, Monash University Art and Design Faculty Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2001 | Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney | |
| Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney | |
| Four Decades, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1999 | Armidale ’42: Memory and Imagination, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria; The Ian Potter Museum of Art – The University of Melbourne, Victoria; New England Regional Gallery, New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in 2000 |
| 1996 | Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 1994 | Jan Senbergs: Imagined Sites – Imagined Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne | |
| 1991 | Australian Galleries, Sydney |
| 1988 | Voyage Six – Antarctica, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1984 | Mining Landscapes – Mt Lyell, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart |
| Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston | |
| Selected Works, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne and touring | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 1983 | Copperopolis – Mt. Lyell, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1981 | Port Liardet Paintings, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney |
| Port Liardet Paintings, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1979 | Port Pastels, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney |
| 1976 | Albert Hall, Canberra |
| Jan Senbergs – Paintings, University Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1975 | Jan Senbergs 1965-75, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria |
| Crossley Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1973 | Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| The University of Western Australia, Perth | |
| 1972 | Gallery A, Melbourne |
| 1969 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney |
| 1966 | Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney |
| Georges Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1964 | Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1962 | Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1960 | Richman Galleries, Melbourne |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2017 | Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| My Geelong – our Gallery, Geelong Gallery, Victoria | |
| 2016 | Panorama, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria |
| Blue Chip XVIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne | |
| A Fine Line: Drawings from the collection, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria | |
| 2015 | APW George Collie Memorial Award Exhibition: Grahame King & Jan Senbergs, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne | |
| The Piranesi effect, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Enlighten, See Canberra in a Whole New Light, National Library of Australia, Canberra | |
| Contemporary Australian drawing: 20 years of the Dobell Prize for drawing, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra | |
| The art of sound, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania | |
| 2013 | Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom | |
| Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne | |
| Mixtape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Sea of Dreams, Port Phillip Bay 1915-2013 (Part Two), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria | |
| 2012 | Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| Antarctica, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra | |
| Titled / Untitled – Works from The Gordon Collection, The Gordon Gallery, Geelong, Victoria | |
| 2011 | Pride of the nation: Centenary of the Royal Australian Navy 1911-2011, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne |
| Artist Artists, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria | |
| Ephemeral by Nature: Lasting by Design, Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne | |
| Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, British Museum, London | |
| Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne | |
| 2010 | Impressions, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne |
| About Place, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne | |
| Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, Drawing Out Festival of Drawing 2010, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne | |
| On this Island: Eleven prominent artists paint New Zealand, NG Art Gallery, Sydney | |
| On this Island, Meeting and Parting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, N.S.W., Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand and King St Gallery on William, Sydney | |
| 2009 | Blue Chip XI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Fondamenti Nove, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Blue Chip VIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| Heart v Mind, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria | |
| Australian Drawing Part 1, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2005 | Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 2003 | William Buckley Rediscovered, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria |
| Abstraction III, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 2002 | Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney |
| 2001 | Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and touring |
| Earth Fire Water: Elements of the Landscape, Metro 5, Melbourne | |
| 1999 | Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Decalogue – Ten Years of Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, South Korea |
| 1997 | Swingtime – 1960s and 1970s, University of Western Australia, Perth |
| 1996 | Australian National University Art Collection: 50th Anniversary Touring Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra and touring |
| Four Visions of Antarctica, Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales | |
| Expressive Figuration, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 1995 | Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1990 | The City and Beyond, La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne and touring |
| 1989 | The Australian Legal Group – Contemporary Print Collection Exhibition, Australian Embassy, Washington DC |
| 1987 | Painters and Sculptors of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan |
| 1986 | Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne |
| Backlash: The Australian Drawing Revival 1976–1986, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Field of Figuration: Australian Art 1960-86, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| 1985 | The Dam, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1984 | Fremantle Drawing Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia |
| 1983 | L.J. Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| 1980 | Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1, Print Council of Australia, touring United States of America, Canada & United Kingdom |
| 1979 | Images – Aspects of Image Painting in the 1960s, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| Tribute to George Baldessin, Realities Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1972 | Australian Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom |
| George Crouch Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria | |
| 1968 | Bradford Print Biennale, City Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom |
| Australian Art Today, Albert Hall, Canberra and touring | |
| Ten Printmakers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Contemporary Australian Prints, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand | |
| 1966 | 6th International Graphics Exhibition, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia |
| International Biennale of Graphic Art, Cracow, Poland | |
| International Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| Inaugural Exhibition, Crossley Gallery, Melbourne | |
| Australian Prints Today, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC | |
| The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| The Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966 | |
| 1965 | Survey: Leonard Crawford, Leonard French, George Johnson, Roger Kemp, Jan Senbergs, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Young Australian Painters, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan | |
| 1964 | Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1963 | Georges Invitation Art Prize, Georges Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1961 | Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| Italian Government Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
APPOINTMENTS
| 1967 | Appointed Teacher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1975 | Appointed Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra |
| 1984-87 | Member of Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council |
| 1984-89 | Trustee, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1989-90 | Visiting Professor, Chair of Australian Studies, Harvard University, Boston, United States of America |
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Atheneum Club, Melbourne
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, United States of America
Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Federal Court, Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Law Council of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States of America
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, United States of America
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Perc Tucker Gallery, Queensland
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Gordon Collection, Victoria
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
Various regional, university, college, corporate and private collections in Australia and United States of America, including BHP, Boston Consulting, ANZ, National Bank of Australia, and the Sussan Corporation amongst others.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
| 2015 | George Collie Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to contemporary Australian printmaking |
| 2003 | Awarded the Order of Australia A.M. |
| 1994 | William Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 1991 | Kedumba Drawing Prize, Leura, New South Wales |
| 1986 | Honorary Award, Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa, RMIT, Melbourne |
| 1984 | Fremantle Drawing Prize, Western Australia |
| 1983 | L.J. Harvey Memorial Prize for Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1982 | Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne |
| 1976 | Sir William Angliss Art Prize, Melbourne |
| 1975-76 | Creative Arts Fellowship, Australian National University, Canberra |
| 1970 | Launceston Art Purchase, Queen Victoria Art Museum and Art Gallery, Tas. |
| 1969 | Newcastle City Art Prize, New South Wales |
| Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne | |
| 1968 | University of Tasmania Print Prize, Hobart |
| 1966 | Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Adelaide |
| 1964 | Commendation Prize, Georges Invitation Art Prize, Melbourne |
| 1963 | Morwell Art Prize, Victoria |
COMMISSIONS
| 1991-93 | The First Bush Block, Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney; First Government House |
| 1989 | Birth of a University, Bond University, Queensland |
| 1987 | Bicentenary Series of Paintings, ANZ Bank (commissioned by Tasmanian, Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart) |
| 1985-86 | Commonwealth Serum Laboratories: the 70th Anniversary Commission, and touring exhibition, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories |
| 1979 | Tapestry for the National Bank of Australia (woven at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne) |
| 1978-80 | Relief mural in Lobby, High Court of Australia, Canberra |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2017
John McDonald, ‘Changing the subject’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14-15 May 2016, pp. 16-17
Blue Chip XVIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2016
Elena Taylor, Tony Ellwood, David Hansen and Patrick McCaughey, Jan Senbergs: observation-imagination, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016
Peter Hill, ‘Jan Senbergs: To Take the Long Way Home’, Vault, no. 14, May 2016
Robert Nelson, ‘Unsettling visions of our strangled world’, The Age, 27 April 2016, pp. 34-35
Quentin Sprague, ‘Life’s Work: Artist Jan Senbergs prepares for his NGV retrospective’, The Monthly, April 2016
Toby Fehily, ‘Jan Senbergs’, Art Guide, no. 100, March/April 2016, pp. 79-84
Gina Fairley, ‘Jan Senbergs: observation – imagination’, Visual Arts Hub, April 6, 2016
Sasha Grishin, ‘Jan Senbergs: Observation – Imagination at the National Gallery of Victoria’, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 25, 2016
Steph Harmon, ‘The ‘industrial surrealism’ and sprawling landscapes of Australia’s Jan Senbergs – in pictures’, The Guardian, March 21, 2016
Ashleigh Wilson, ‘Observation-Imagination: artist Jan Senbergs’ NGV retrospective’, The Australian, 17 March 2016
Andrew Stephens, “‘It is very hard to think these days’: Jan Senbergs stays true to his art”, The Age, March 4, 2016
‘”Observation-Imagination” at NGV’, Broadsheet, March 2016
Jan Senbergs: Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2016
Steve Lopes, ‘Jan Senbergs: Preview’, Artist Profile, no. 34, 2016, pp. 120-122
Elena Taylor, ‘In conversation: Jan Senbergs’, Gallery, January-February 2016, pp. 56-63
Sasha Grishin, ‘Jan Senbergs: Heat–Fire–Smoke’, Meanjin Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2, 2015, pp. 32-48
Sasha Grishin, ‘Review: Jan Senbergs’ paintings are a brilliant shock to the senses’, The Conversation, February 2015
HEAT – FIRE – SMOKE, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2015
Barry Pearce, 100 Moments in Australian Painting, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2014
Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
Sea of Dreams, Port Phillip Bay 1915-2013 (Part Two), exhibition catalogue, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, 2013
Max Delany, Fleur Watson et al., Melbourne Now, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Melbourne Now Exhibition Guide, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Steve Lopes, ‘Jan Senbergs: Imagined Realties’, Artist Profile, no. 25, 2013-14
Don Watson, ‘Outer Spaces’, The Australian Weekend Financial Review, 9-10 November 2013
Steve Lopez, ‘Jan Senbergs: Cruise Ships Don’t Come to Melbourne Much’, Art Almanac, November 2013
Don Watson, Cruise Ships Don’t Come to Melbourne Much, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2013
Simon Plant, ‘Our city’s creativity now for all to see’, The Herald Sun, 4 October 2013
Sonia Harford, ‘Children put on the map at the NGV’, The Age, 28 September 2013
Daniel Thomas, ‘Elizabethan Post-Colonial 1950-2013’, Australia, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2013
Blue Chip XV: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2013
Titled/Untitled – Work from The Gordon Collection, exhibition catalogue, The Gordon Gallery, Victoria, 2012
Maree Coote, ‘Jan Senbergs’, The Art of Being Melbourne, Melbournestyle Books, 2012
Gina Lee, ‘Imagine this’, Through the Imagination, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2011
Simon Grennan, ‘Landscape on the Brink’, Geelong Re-imagined and Observed works from the West Coast by Jan Senbergs, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, 2011
Stephen Coppel, Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, exhibition catalogue, British Museum Press, London, 2011
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors’ Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2011
Katrina Strickland, ‘UK show redraws the relationship’, The Australian Financial Review, 23 June 2011
Owen Craven, On This Island, Meeting and Parting, exhibition catalogue, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New South Wales, 2010
‘Profile: Jan Senbergs’, Artist Profile, no. 9, 2009
Paul Flynn, ‘On this island, meeting and parting’, Artist Profile, no. 9, 2009
Bettina MacAulay and Brett Adlington, Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery and University Art Collections in Queensland, exhibition catalogue, Museum and Gallery Services Queensland Limited, Brisbane, 2009
Patrick McCaughey, Capriccios, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2009
Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs Complete Screenprints 1960–88, Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney, 2008
John McDonald, ‘Two tones: dark and darker’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25–27 April 2008
Sebastian Smee, ‘Age of anxiety’, The Weekend Australian, 19–20 April 2008
Elisabeth Wynhausen, ‘Not just another maverick’, The Weekend Australian, 19–20 April 2008
Hendrik Kolenberg, ‘Jan Senbergs: how his work grew and bloomed’, Look: Art Gallery Society of NSW, March 2008
Barbara Flynn (ed.), Emerge and Review: A look into the UBS Australian art collection, UBS, Sydney, 2007
Jim Morgan, ‘Jan Senbergs’ in Sonia Payes, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, Macmillan Publishing, Melbourne, 2007
Ian Lloyd and John McDonald, Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, R. Ian Lloyd Productions, Sydney, 2007
Angahook – Otway, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2007
Patricia Maunder, ‘Artists in the frame’, The Age, 24 July 2007
Jeff Makin, ‘Lost master hits rocks’, Herald Sun, 14 May 2007
Patrick McCaughey, ‘Drawing on the far and near’, The Age, 6 January 2007
Elizabeth Cross, Jan Senbergs Drawing, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2006
Daniel Thomas, ‘Between the cogs and a hard place’, The Times Literary Supplement, 11 August 2006
John Mateer, ‘Rethinking Senbergs’ view’, The Age, 3 June 2006
Rosalie Higson, ‘An artist’s life with his critics’, The Australian, 24 March 2006
Patrick McCaughey, Voyage and Landfall: the Art of Jan Senbergs, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006
Gael Ramsay and Gordon Morrison, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery: Highlights from the Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 2006
Imagined Sites – Imagined Reality, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1994
Jan Senbergs: Voyage Six – Antarctica, exhibition catalogue, Powell Street Gallery, 1988