I am interested in why things are the way they are and how they could be different. I use diagrams in order to gain personal understanding of the economic and historical processes that shape human society and relationships. Alongside this, I seek to embody alternative forms of social organisation, for example by using oyster mushrooms to detoxify the global financial system and the ideology that underpins
I am interested in why things are the way they are and how they could be different. I use diagrams in order to gain personal understanding of the economic and historical processes that shape human society and relationships. Alongside this, I seek to embody alternative forms of social organisation, for example by using oyster mushrooms to detoxify the global financial system and the ideology that underpins it, or by giving away possessions. My practice includes object-making, material investigation, finding connections and trying to create meeting points between information and understanding. There is a strong political edge to my work but I try to avoid didacticism, preferring to present situations and possibilities and let viewers draw their own conclusions. I believe that art's capacity to communicate beyond the limits of language can open up new ways of experiencing and imagining the world, and that through imagination we can bring other realities into being.
JANE LAWSON: CV
CONTACT DETAILS
Email [email protected]
Web http://www.janelawson.co.uk
Blog http://paintremediation.wordpress.com
Telephone 07969 174 557
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES AND EVENTS
2014
Show Me The Money
Gallery for Northern Contemporary Art, Sunderland; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Chawton House; Alton
Unstuffed (with Sandra Bouguerch)
Islington Mill, Salford
Burning the Books (co-reciter)
Asia Triennial, Salford/Manchester
Alternative Art Education, Liverpool Biennial
Discussion evening with BAA
Art Is Action (as member of BAA)
Bury Art Museum, Bury
C PAGES
TOAST WILL HOST, Manchester and Stryx, Birmingham
Political Economy on the Table
Tad Gallery, Texas
Exuberant Politics
Legion Arts, Iowa
Glitter and Gold
Congou Projects, Manchester
2013
Small Change
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
The Manchester Contemporary
Exhibited on Castlefield Gallery stand
2HRS
Piccadilly Place, Manchester
In-Residence
Residency with In Situ, Brierfield
Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition
Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London
Malgras-Naudet Summer Show
Malgras-Naudet Gallery, Manchester
7 Hours
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
The Heinrich Event
Collaborative Residency at Rogue Project Space, Manchester
Rule of Three
Residency and Open Studio at Islington Mill, Salford
http://www.ruleof3.co.uk
2012 Bioremediation II and III
Biospheric Foundation, Salford, as part of Free For Arts Festival
2011 Flood (in collaboration with Annie Harrison)
Chorlton Arts Festival
Blank Expression
Inaugural exhibition at Blank Space, Manchester.
EDUCATION
2009-2012 BA (Hons) Visual Arts
Salford University
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT
Since 2012 CG Associates Co-ordinator
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2012 Counterculture Nature outreach project for Tate Liverpool
Assistant to Kerry Morrison mapping brownfield sites in Liverpool
http://natureexposed.tumblr.com/
2002-2006 UHC Ltd
Arts administrator
2002-2009 Ethical Consumer magazine
Writer/researcher on corporate ethics
OTHER
Sept 2013 Grizedale Arts
Volunteer
Feb 2013 Dangerous Ground
Symposoium on cultural value, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
http://culturalvalueinitiative.org/dangerous-ground-project/
July 2012 CrisisArt Festival
Accademia dell'Arte, Arezzo, Italy
