Practice

Jane is a contemporary mixed media artist creating sculptural assemblages using hand-construction techniques. She currently works from her studio at Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds where her process-led practice centres on the transformation of found objects.

Jane gathers her materials by hand from the coastline of Anglesey; a place rooted in family history and deep personal association. Her work reflects on memory where making becomes an act of reconnection. The contrast between materials evokes a visual and emotional response that stimulates the creative process; an automatic flow guided by intuition and improvisation. Using only the objects gathered to preserve their true form and place of origin, materials are playfully manipulated and reworked. Unique structures emerge that draw on the intersection of past and present, both fragile and resilient they carry an emotional weight, quietly holding stories of loss, connection and renewal.

Jane grew up on the Wirral and lived in Liverpool until she moved to Leeds in 2010 where she now lives with her partner and teenage son. She worked as a lecturer in Art & Design in Further Education for many years after completing her Fine Art degree. After gaining her MA in Multimedia Design she shifted her creative focus to user research, co-design and the evaluation of digital/non-digital services for health and wellbeing in the public, private and third sector. Jane now works part-time for Cycle North delivering bikes to schools across Yorkshire to support cycle training alongside working in her studio at Sunny Bank Mills.