Jane Fairhurst
Jane Fairhurst
I’m a professional artist with over three decades making art, exhibiting and curating exhibitions. I attended Liverpool School of Art at 18 and I’ve been a studio-based artist for over 20 years. I gained my Master’s degree with distinction from Liverpool John Moores University in 2010.
Having worked across range of media, drawing, painting, mixed media, textiles and installation since 2017 I have focused on painting.
I make work in series and research is an important part of my practice, the themes and subject matter are dynamic and subject to change, as new connections surface across the body of the work.
Garden meditations 2021
I have always felt the need to respond to what is going on around me and I try to bring some of that into my paintings.
During 2021 I have spent a lot of time in my garden and my current series of oil paintings are developed from sketches made al fresco in the garden. The paintings explore the genius Loci, the constant change, the impermanence, as the garden rises and falls with the cycle of the seasons. Portraying growth and light, form and colour and the inter-connectedness between the elements I create visual narratives. Whilst my paintings are devoid of people they are implied by the very nature of the garden as a human construct, a heterotopia.
Artist living and working in Greater Manchester
Studio holder and trustee Cross Street Arts, Standish, Wigan
Castefield Gallery Associate
Suite studio Group Associate
Member of Wirral Society of Arts
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Education
2010 Masters Degree in Fine Art with Distinction, Liverpool JMU Academy of Art and Design.
Exhibition selection committee member
West Lancashire Open 2007, 2010, 2016
Prizes
West Lancashire Art Prize winner 2005 & 2007
2005 3D Prize, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
Greater Manchester Art Prize 2016 - selected artist
National Open Art Prize 2017 - shortlisted
Selected Exhibitions 2010-2018
2019
Aesthetica Magazine, artist of the week, artist’ directory
Unto This Last, Wigan Arts Festival, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, curator and exhibitor
2018
Beep Wales International Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, selected artist
Twice as Nice, PSMirabel, Manchester, selected artist
Size Matters, Gallery One, World of Glass, St. Helens, selected artist
Intoline, Wigan Arts Festival, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan, selected artist
Something Called Home, King Street Studios, Lancaster, selected artist
The Transit of Venus, Isherwood Gallery, The Old courts, Wigan, solo exhibition
2017
The Transit of Venus, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan, solo exhibition
Curiosity, AIR Gallery, Altrincham, invited artist
Anniversary Exhibition, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, invited artist
Halloween, The Old Courts, Wigan, invited artist
Art Across, in conversation with Sara Riccardi at Saul Hay Gallery
Material Matters, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, invited artist
Nasty Women Wigan, Cross Street Gallery, selected artist
New Mills Art Festival, Derbyshire, selected artist
Warrington Contemporary, selected artist
Small Worlds, PS Mirabel, Manchester, selected artist
Cross Street Arts at The Atkinson, Southport
Strange Little Things, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Museum Night, Wigan Museum of Life, selected artist
Jane Fairhurst paintings and drawings, Heather Hill Gallery, Connemara, Eire, invited artist
Something Black, Cultivate, London, selected artist
Placement v Process, Wigan Arts Festival, Cross Street Arts at The Isherwood Gallery, Wigan
Reality Removed, World of Glass, St Helens, selected artist
She will need her sisterhood, The Floating Gallery, Leeds, selected artist
T’Art, Sweet’Art exhibition, Bones and Pearl Gallery, London, selected artist
Mono, PS Mirabel, Manchester, selected artist
2016
Reality on the Edge, PS Mirabel, Manchester, selected artist
Warrington Contemporary arts Festival, selected artist
Wigan Arts Festival, Cross Street Arts , Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan
New Mills Arts Festival, High Peak, Derbyshire, selected artist
She wearesweet’art 47/49 Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London, selected artist
West Lancs Open, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, selector and exhibitor
Spectrum, PS Mirabel, Manchester, selected artist
GM Arts Prize 2016 Summer Exhibition, Manchester, selected artist
A6 Dialogue at Cross Street Arts, curator and exhibitor
Alternate Nature, Electric Picture House, Congelton, Cheshire, selected artist
The Transit of Venus, Calver Gallery, South Square Centre, Thornton, Bradford, solo exhibition
Hand Maid Wearesweetart for International Women’s Week, Hoxton Arches Gallery, Shoreditch, London, selected artist