Jane, born in Yorkshire, went to Hornsey College of Art - exhibiting at Greenham Common Control Tower January 2021?
Jane, born in Yorkshire, went to Hornsey College of Art - exhibiting at Greenham Common Control Tower January 2021?
I always wanted people to appreciate the wonder of flying. We have always wanted to fly and we have only been able to do so for not much more than a hundred years.
Climate change I knew must limit cheap flights for all eventually - now Covid-19 seems to be achieving this. But for how long?
I am a painter who has worked with the theme of flying for over 10 years. Recently I have been making mobiles of laser-cut flying people. Silhouettes are what we see of things flying high, and these can suggest a flying person. My experience of gliding makes me think we do not need angels’ wings to fly.
Also for many years I have been making collages of the photographs I have taken from the windows of passenger jets, gliders and helicopters. Seeing how few airline passengers look out of the windows suggested my JaneAir plane which I still ‘fly’ occasionally.
Another major influence on my work has been my uncle - a photo-reconnaissance Spitfire pilot in WW2. He left me his flying logbook and his medals. I have used photographs he took in series of works using overlapping clear acrylic sheets.
I have been invited to hold a solo exhibition from January to March in 2021 at Greenham Common in the Control Tower (now a community centre). I only hope it will be open in time. I had planned to use it to question how my work could contribute to the protest movement to limit the world’s climate disaster. Covid-19 makes this so much more relevant.
Ph D, M Sc – UMIST, Diploma, Hornsey College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2019 ' It's an Upside Down World', The White Box, Blackheath, London
2017 'Why walk when you could Fly?', Brixton, London
2006 ‘Cars & Colour’, Barga, Tuscany, Italy
2006 ‘Cars & Colour’, Waterloo Gallery, London
2005 (solo stand) Kunst-Event, Antwerp
2003 (solo stands)1st & 2nd Manchester Art Fairs, Urbis, Manchester
2002 (solo stand) Fresh Art 2002, Business Design Centre, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Southwark Park Open, Southwark
2019 Wimmin II, Hackney
2018 'Ideal Homeless Exhibition' Bad Behaviour, Southwark
2018 'RAG 2', Central Space AVACA, Hammersmith
2016 ‘Bad Behaviour Open’, Brixton East, Brixton
2016 ‘Thoughts in Art’ Teatro La Grada, Madrid
2016 ‘Open Aviary’, Island Projects, Sheerness
2016 'Europa', Transition Gallery, Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Rd, London E8 4QN
2016 RAG exhibition, Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT
2015 ‘Other’ xvi collective, Maverick Art Fair, Oxo Building
2015 ‘From the Pages of a Book (Open)’ Riverside Gallery, LB of Richmond
2015 ‘El Camino’ Hortensia Gallery, Fulham
2015 Turner’s House Exhibition, Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham
2015 ‘Sanctum Sanctorum’, Gallery Sensei, New York, USA
2015 ‘West’ RAG, Griffin Gallery, curated by Duncan Smith ACAVA
2015 ‘Collaborations’ Bad Behaviour, The Flying Dutchman, Camberwell
2014 ‘Abstract Open’, Stables Gallery, Orleans House, LB of Richmond
2014 ‘Food,Glorious Food; Bad Behaviour’, The Cambria, Brixton
2014 ‘MetroEscapes’ Museo Ramon, Lalin, Spain
2014 ixv exhibition, South Lookout, Caroline Wiseman Gallery, Aldeburgh
2014 ‘Flight’ Conspire 47/49, Bermondsey
2013 ‘BOGOF’ WW Gallery, Hatton Garden
2013 Art at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, Fenchurch Ave, City of London
2013 ‘Secret Histories’, xvi collective stand, Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey
2013 ‘chArt; Bad Behaviour’, West Brixton Gallery
2013 - 'The Magic Shop' xvi collective[, Meantime Space, Stoke Newington
2012 LDN/BCN Untitled Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2012 La Petite Muerte, Drawers Gallery, Dalston, London
2012 ALAS 1st Residency Exhibition, Matt Roberts Gallery Vyner St, London
2012 Fusion (RAG), Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London
2012 Art Below, Regent's Park tube station & Gallery, off Tottenham Court Rd
2011 40 x40 (RAG), Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
2011 Then & Now (RAG) , Museum Municipale, Ourense, Spain
2010 RAG show SIAM Gallery, Songzhang, Beijing, China
2010 ‘London Calling’ Museo Ramon Ma Aller, Lalin, Spain
2009 ‘Drawings’(RAG) Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
2008 ‘Recent Works (RAG)’ Knapp Gallery, Regent’s Park, London
2002 - RAG Group Show, Museo Municipal, Ourense, Spain
2001 - The City, Whitechapel Contemporary, East London
1997 - Cadaques Mini Print International, Spain, France, England
1996 - RAG Group Show, Museo Municipal, Ourense, Spain
Open Submissions
2016 Selected for ‘Bad Behaviour Open’, Brixton
2016 Selected for ‘Open Aviary’, Island Projects, Sheerness
2016 Selected for ‘Europa’, Transition Gallery, Hackney
2015 selected for ‘From the Pages of a Book’, LB Richmond
2014 selected for ‘Abstract Open’ by Mark de Novellis, LB Richmond
2007 selected for Phase 2 of the John Moores Art Prize
Live/Performance
2013 - Jane Air Bus, Animamus Art Salon, Apiary Studios,
Residencies
2015 ‘Sanctum Sanctorum’, Animus Art Salon, Gallery Sensei, USA
2014 xvi residency, Lookout, Aldeburgh beach, Caroline Wiseman Gallery
2013 Animus Art Salon, Apiary Studios, Hackney
2012 1st ALAS (Artist-led Society) Residency, Matt Roberts Gallery, Vyner St
Publications
2015 ‘West ’an exhibition by Riverside Artists Group at Winsor & Newton Griffin Gallery
2013 xvi collective, ‘Secret Histories’ at Sluice Art Fair
2012 'La Petite Muerte' by Kirsty Harris
2012 'This is Not the Gallery', book of 1st ALAS Residency
2011 'Antes e Agora' (Then and Now), Museo Municipal Ourense, Spain
Collections & Commissions
Christie Hospital, Manchester
Museum Municipale, Ourense, Spain
Private collections in London, Norfolk, Aldeburgh, Manchester, Spain, Pisa Italy, Washington DC USA
