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Portrait of Artist and Sculptor Jane Alexander

Artists Statement and Bio

Jane’s practice investigates the expressive use of materials. A background in commercial photography and film has informed Jane’s interest in layering and light playing on texture in her work and led to her current creative interests.

Jane's work encompasses both painting and sculpture. Her sculptures vary from urban archaeology and excavation in her plaster pieces; to welded steel works focusing on space and weight. With her plaster works there is an interest in how to connect the formal elements of welded steel, or manufactured objects with the unpredictable and informal process of immersion into boxes of plaster and concrete. Her interest in the collapsing of forms through the process of making, and the layering of textural elements is inspired by nature and human interaction with it. She wants the viewer to engage with her work by letting their eyes travel over the forms whilst the imagination moves through them. She wants the viewer to join the artist in excavating sculptural forms, to think about the meaning of objects, memories, and the detritus of human existence.

The layering of objects and shapes is also part of her painting and drawing process. With her painting she is focussed on the use of colour to depict depth and movement across a landscape. A completely opposite process is employed in her painting, where monotones are replaced with vibrant colour.

Jane continues to employ an eclectic set of styles in her work.

Jane majored in Sculpture for her Bachelor of Fine Art at National Art School (2020) and also works across a range of media including painting. The Sculptural training has greatly helped in other disciplines. She won the prestigious Anne Pata Memorial Drawing Award (2020) and a National Art School prize for Sculpture (2020) and is a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize (2021).

Jane has been exhibiting in solo and group shows since 2012. Her latest solo show is at Trenna Austin Gallery Mosman 2022.

Jane’s work has been acquired by the National Library of Canberra and private collectors in Australia, New Zealand, England, Denmark and America.

Jane graduated from Professional Photography Certificate Wellington Polytechnic, and a BFA (Distinction) National Art School Sydney 2020. She was selected for a sculpture internship at National Art School 2019 and teaches pop-up life drawing classes for Darlinghurst Life Drawing. She also teaches at Waverley Art School and Willoughby Art Centre and volunteers photographing the archives at the National Art School insydney.