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“The works I make are written in images; they write the space to create within, I use drawing as a tool to think visually. I am engaged with the way lines to behave, where they come from, how they remind me of the thinking/feeling process in all its organised and messy ways. Hair lines, exact or ambiguous, became a segue to self and other, my passport to the thinking line, to the feeling space and the texture that is drawing.
A drawer first and foremost, I draw with any material. While engaged with the delicate line I am executing on a surface, I am equally fascinated by the shade and depth they create. While they are visual I see my completed works as hiding a moment yet exposing a space; being private but publicly exposing an intimacy. My specificity is a nod to the masters, my composition is a new lens on the mind, my subject matter metaphor only.
'Primarily using 'drawing' as the first tool to articulate, Jo is constantly driven by notions of ambiguity or duality. She uses representational style to convey abstract ideas and is continually absorbed by the confluence of private and public, order and chaos, thought and matter.....'
"There is another world, but it is in this one"
Paul Eluard
Instagram: @__jolane__
Website: jolane.com
Study
2017/2018 Masters of Drawing, University of Arts, London, Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL)
2014 Graduate Certificate Visual Art, Melbourne University, Victorian College of the Arts
2011-2013 Diploma of Visual Art, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
Short studies
2013 Australian Print Workshop, Introduction to Etching with Martin King, July - August
2010 Internationale Sommerakademie Venice, Painting, 2010
2004-05 Botanical Art School Melbourne, various intensive and short courses, 2004 – 2005
1993 Williamson Leadership Foundation, Graduate (now Leadership Victoria)
Exhibitions
Upcoming:
2018 'Drawing Strength', Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria November 17th to Jan. 7th 2019
2018 Ladder Art Space, Group Show, Curator Maryam Safinia and Payam Khajeh, Melbourne, June
2018 April/May - Xhibit, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
Xhibit showcases the best-emerging creatives from UAL. Xhibit is open to all current students and is selected by an expert panel of creative industry professionals.
Art Bermondsey Project Space, London SE1 3UW2018
2018 'Beautiful Banal' Group Show, Off the Kerb Gallery, Melbourne, February
2017 Solo 'head' Tacit Art, opening 12th July, 312 Johnson Street, Abbotsford
2017 Nillumbik Art Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria June/July
2017 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Werribee Victoria, April/May
2016 Solo 'SENSOR', Junior Space Gallery, Smith Street, Fitzroy, October to November
2016 Sculpture 'beautiful torture' included in Montsalvat Arts Festival October 16th
2016 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, 20th August to 20th October
2016 Solo 'Time's Tattoo', Montsalvat Residents Gallery,Eltham Victoria, July
2016 SCOPE Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, Warrnambool
2016 The Peacock in the Room, Group Show, curator Petra Nickel, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, April
2016 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Werribee Victoria, March to May
2016 Dragonfly, Group Show, final HOUSE OF BRICKS, 40 Budd St., Collingwood,
2015 #IAMANY Group Show, Darwin Visual Arts Association, Woods Street, Darwin - August
2015 FLUX CONTROL Group Show, Becc Orszag | Cameron Robbins | Dean Thompson | Hollie M Kelley l Indigo O’Rourke | Ian Paradine | Jo Lane | Leith Maguire | Ryan McGennisken, HOUSE OF BRICKS, 40 Budd St., Collingwood, in June
2015 DRAWv2, Groups Show, Melbourne Arts Club, Preston. Selection by curator Julia Howard.
2015 I IS ANOTHER, Group Show George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, http://iisanotherinstallation.weebly.com/
2015 LAUNCH 2015, Brunswick Arts Space, Brunswick. Selection by curator Alex Clark from graduate shows 2014
2014 Group show, VCA Student Gallery, Dodds Street, South Melbourne,
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award, Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls NSW then Orange Regional Gallery to Jan 2015
2014 Group Show 'bravarto' Gallery 314, Church Street, Richmond Victoria
2013 LEFTOVERS IV, international print portfolio, traveling exhibition by Wingtip Press USA, AppleStick Contemporary Art, Balnarring. August - September
2013 St Luke's 'exquisite palette', Melbourne
2013 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2012 Christmas Show, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Studio Art Show, LaTrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Group show, the arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize Exhibition
2012 Group show ‘Winged Things and Other Wonders of the Natural World’, Domain House Gallery, South Yarra, Victoria
2011 Group show ‘Artspring’ at Coolart, Parks Victoria, Somers, Victoria
2011 Solo ‘The Feather’ Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2006 Solo ‘In the Presence of Nature’ Emporium Botanica, Armadale, Victoria
Award information
2017 Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Awards, Finalist
2017 Nillumbik Art Prize, Finalist, Winner People's Choice Award
2017 Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist
2016 Kedumba Drawing Award, Finalist
2016 SCOPE Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, Finalist
2016 Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award, Finalist
2013 Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, Finalist
2012 arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize, Finalist
Curator
2018 Life, life drawing works, Wimbledon Space, London
2013 Balibo Fort Museum, East Timor, image preparation and presentation
2011 John Gollings, Burnt Landscape, GPO Melbourne
2010 Co-curator ‘BotanicAsia’, Domain House, South Yarra, Victoria for Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
1995 Creative Director, 'The Useum', virtual cultural centre, for Victorian State Govt.
Bibliography
'Petrichor', Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2015
UNVEILING CONTEMPORARIES, Feature artist www.unveilingcontemporaries.com 2015 (text from Curator Petra Nicel below)
Lines & Marks, Magazine. Included twice in 2015 http://linesandmarks.com/
'Encounters', Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2014
'On the Ledge of the World', Visible Ink, RMIT artwork inclusion 2013
Janice Breen Burns, ‘Frocks of a Feather', The Age, February 2011
Kellie Hush, ‘Birds of a Feather’ Sydney Morning Herald, Exhibition Style, December 2010
WhiteSpac3, online art magazine - Feature Artist 2010
Member of National Association for the Visual Arts Ltd NAVA