Approved: 19.06.2007

Jane Human

Artist, Teacher

Approved: 19.06.2007

The major theme of my work is the exploration of a sense of place, rooted in the British tradition of reportage. I am particularly interested to evoke a response to the experience of being there in the environment, rather than to record topography. It is an interpretation of space in flux, always influenced by light, weather, sound, of fixing a fleeting moment or a series of viewpoints, the passing

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Artist Statement

The major theme of my work is the exploration of a sense of place, rooted in the British tradition of reportage. I am particularly interested to evoke a response to the experience of being there in the environment, rather than to record topography. It is an interpretation of space in flux, always influenced by light, weather, sound, of fixing a fleeting moment or a series of viewpoints, the passing of time, transience as opposed to the concrete. I wish to encapsulate this experience developed through recurring visits to a place, by working in series. Each image alludes to that place just enough to allow space for individual interpretation. Increasingly this distillation results as much in landscapes of memory as of reality. This is particularly true of the Spurn series (2007) with its emphasis on the territory between land and sea, vast spaces exposed and diminished by tides, a blurring of the margins. Also, the Seville Alcazar series (2006) by contrast seeks to explore enclosure, glimpsed openings through to hidden, intimate spaces. To make this work I use an offset litho press to produce multi-layered monotypes and work on several images from a series at any one time. Whilst formalising ideas to create an initial working structure, the ongoing process is not predetermined and is essentially intuitive. Exploration of colour, gesture and energy within mark-making are intrinsic to the way each work progresses and elements appear or are hidden as layers build. To finish a piece may take many weeks, which allows the whole series of work to remain open to possibility.

CV & Education

Solo Exhibitions

2010                    ‘Still Water’ Falle Fine Art, St Helier, Jersey

2009                    Jealous Gallery/CEOS London,

2008                    The Fox Judges Show, Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey

                            The Original Gallery, Hornsey Library London, 

2003                    ‘The Edge’ collaboration with CGL Architecture, London Architecture Week 

2000                    ‘Recent works’ Alchemy Gallery, London EC1 

Selected/Group Exhibitions

2013                     NOA 13 Royal College of Art, London and Minerva Theatre, Chichester

                            Summer Exhibition 25th Anniversary Bircham Gallery Holt, Norfolk

                            Nix Contemporary Art,  Affordable Art Fair Hampstead

                            Spring Show 25th Anniversary Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk

2012                    Royal Society of British Artists, FBA, Mall Galleries, London

                            Curated show - Threadneedle offices, London.                             

                            ‘25x12’ Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Devon

                            Nix Contemporary Art, Affordable Art Fair Hampstead

                            Columbia Road Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

                            Summer Exhibition  Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk

2011                    Nix Contemporary Art, Affordable Art Fair Hampstead.

                            Printmakers Council Highgate Literary Institute,                             

                            Print Show, Bircham Gallery, Holt Norfolk

                           ‘22’ Original Gallery, Hornsey Library, London 

2010                    Printmakers Council Show, Bankside Gallery, London

                            ‘Summer Exhibition‘ Bircham Gallery, Holt

2009                    ‘Originals 09’ Mall Galleries, London

2008                    Falle Fine Art, St Helier, Jersey

                            ‘Curwen 50th Anniversary Show’, Curwen Gallery, London

                            ‘Contemporary Coast’, Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable, Kent

2007                    ‘Small is Beautiful’, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, The Pump House, London  N8

                            Summer Exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield 

2004                    ‘Originals 04’ Mall Galleries, London

                            DACS 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Mall Galleries, London

2003                    Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone, London.                                        

2002                    Laing National Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries, London

1997                    The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1996                    Laing National Landscape Competition, Mall Galleries, London

Employment

1991-2001 Senior Lecturer Illustration University of Northumbria

2001-6 Senior Lecturer Illustration Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University

2008 -12 External Examiner University of Middlesex

2011 - 2014 External Examiner UCA Maidstone

2010 - present Visiting Lecturer Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University

Collections

National Oil Paintings Collection, NHS Primary Care Trust Enfield, Work held in public, private and corporate collections in Gt Britain, Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Republic of Ireland.

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2008 - Benjamin meaker Theatre, Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey

          Monoprint workshop, Jersey Society of Artists, Greve de Lecq, Jersey

          Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2005 - Savannah College of Art & Design, SCAD Theatre, Savannah, Georgia, USA

2003 - University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne