Currently living and working on Boonwurrung country, Australia.
Jo Lane (b. 1954) is an artist working in drawing and sculpture. A Melbourne woman, although a British citizen also, Jo’s work considers and explores social and psychological spaces. Her work responds intuitively to the outside world, the inside world, and differing depths of sensibility and expression, as a social function.
British Psychoanalyst, Donald W Winnicott places some artistic motivation in the tension between the desire to hide and the desire to communicate. Her work erupts from this tension, between the private refuge of existence and the nature of external engagement that is art making.
‘there is another world, but it is in this one’ Paul Éluard (1939)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2017-2018 Masters of Drawing, University of the Arts London (UAL), Wimbledon College of Arts, Distinction
2014 Graduate Certificate Visual Art, Melbourne University, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
2011-2013 Diploma of Visual Art, Latrobe College of Art and Design, Melbourne
Extra studies:
2021/22 Turps Banana, UK, MASS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE Sculpture
2013 Australian Print Workshop, Introduction to Etching with Martin King, July - August
2010 Internationale Sommerakademie Venice, Painting 11, 1 week, 2010
2004-05 Botanical Art School Melbourne, various intensive and short courses, 2004 – 2005
1993 Williamson Leadership Foundation, Graduate (now Leadership Victoria) 1 year
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘skin’ at Yarra Sculpture Gallery May 2023
2023 SONG STONE, Oigall Projects, Gertrude St, Fitzroy, April 2023
2020 bed, WESTEND Art Space, Adderley Street, Melbourne
2018 Drawing Strength, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria November 17th to Jan. 6th 2019
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/drawing-strength/
2017 head, Tacit Art, opening 12th July, 312 Johnson Street, Abbotsford
2016 SENSOR Junior Space Gallery, Smith Street, Fitzroy, October to November
2016 Time's Tattoo, Montsalvat Residents Gallery, Eltham Victoria, July
2011 The Feather, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2006 In the Presence of Nature, Emporium Botanica, Armadale, Victoria
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘The Listening Stones’ in Creative Constellations: Atlas of Radical Hope
2023 Invited artist [notfair] Art Fair
2023 FLOW, Climarte, Richmond
2023 DRI F T Arts Festival, STRATA at Quarantine Portsea with ‘The Listening Stones’ Opens April 22nd
2022 Pentridge Gallery, ‘Familial’, 23rd September
2022 VMG Art Series, Catherine Asquith, July to September
2022 INterior, Small Sculpture, YAVA, Healesville
2021 [MARS] Gallery, Christmas Show, Windsor, VIctoria
2020 IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN
LAYERS OF TIME selection by WestendArtspace
https://westendartspace.com.au/exhibitions_details/layers-of-time-west-end-artists-show-sep-4-26-2020/
COANTIVIRUS international online art exhibition out of China, work from more than 50 countries, stay at home and abroad to record what they know, see, feel and think since COVID-19. http://www.coantivirus.com/
lost in isolation selection by VOID COLLECTIVE London online exhibition
https://www.void-collective.com/exhibitions/lost-in-isolation
30 days of isolation artbox projects Zurich, selection to exhibit in Zurich SWISSARTEXPO August
2020 20 x 20 Tacit Galleries 20 Years, March
2019/20 thinking graphite Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, UK, December to February
https://thinkinggraphite.weebly.com/
https://www.viarco.pt/en/thinking-graphite/
2019 you, me and that other thing Tash Parker and Jo Lane, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, October 4th
2019 Out of Darkness, Lumen Studios, Crypt Gallery, London. July
2019 Because Everyone Sleeps Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, Curator Ciara O’Meara, June
2019 HIX AWARD, Coutts Bank, London
2018 Drawing Strength, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria November 17th to Jan. 6th
2018 HIX ART AWARD, Hix Gallery, Shoreditch London
2018 Sunlight, Elephant Art Gallery, 508 Gallery, Kings Road, London
2018 Ladder Art Space, Curators Maryam Safini and Payam Khajeh, Melbourne, June
2018 April/May - Xhibit 2018, 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
AWARD information
2023 Yering Station Sculpture Awards, Victoria (finalist)
2023 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (finalist)
2022 Kedumba Drawing Award, finalist by invitation,
2021 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (finalist)
2021 Yarra Valley Arts / Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards (finalist)
2021 Tacit STILL LIFE Awards (finalist)
2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize. Finalist - Open Category (finalist)
2021 Wyndham Art Prize, (finalist).
2021 Southern Buoy Portrait Prize, Finalist, Mornington, Victoria (finalist)
2020/21 Woollahra Small Sculpture Awards, NSW (finalist)
2020 Kedumba Drawing Award, Finalist by invitation, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
2020 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Werribee Victoria, April/May (finalist)
2019 Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld, Australia (finalist)
2019 Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Awards, Victoria (finalist)
2018 Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld, Australia (finalist)
2018 HIX Award, HIX ART, London, UK (finalist)
2017 Yarra Valley Arts/Yering Station Sculpture Awards, Victoria (finalist)
2017 Nillumbik Art Prize, Finalist, Winner People's Choice Award, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria June/July
2017 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Werribee Victoria, April/May (finalist)
2016 Kedumba Drawing Award, Finalist by invitation, Orange Regional Gallery, 20th August to 20th October
2016 SCOPE Galleries Art Award - Art Concerning Environment, (finalist), Warrnambool, Victoria
2016 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Gallery, Werribee Victoria, March to May (finalist)
2014 Kedumba Drawing Award, Finalist by invitation, exhibition Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls NSW then Orange Regional Gallery to Jan 2015
2013 Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award, QLD, Australia (finalist)
2012 arc Yinnar Biennial Drawing Prize, 19-23 Main St, Yinnar VIC 3869, Australia (finalist)
Curator
2022 TREE for CLIMARTE at fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
FIRE Climate Emergency on Country Creative Producer for CLIMARTE, 120 Bridge Rd, Richmond
2021 HEAR Climate Emergency on Country Creative Producer for CLIMARTE, 120 Bridge Rd, Richmond
2018 Drawing Strength', Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria November 17th to Jan. 7th 2019
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.
TEACHING
2020 - 23 The Art Room, Multi Media Me’s, mixed media self portraits & Charcoal, Mind Moves and Movies, charcoal animation
2021 The Art Room, Pushing The Line a 5 day course with: Irene Barberis, Sam Leach, Fran O’Neill and Peter Wegner
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
2021 - 2023 CLIMARTE
1999 Governor General Appointment A.F.T.R.S
Collections
ongoing Private Collections
2020 Art Gallery of South Australia - included in ‘LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID 19’
Australian Museum, Canberra - included in ‘LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID 19’
2013 Lauriston Girls School
Published in
WOMEN Inspiring Quotes & Artistic Responses. UK, ed: Nicola Wild and Andy Wild, https://www.womenartbook.com/ 2020
INFRINGE Magazine, London, "Jo Lane’s atmospheric drawings depict hair shrouded in darkness,
capturing only the intricate details belonging to the hair of strangers, the artist asks what a hairstyle might tell us about its wearer" 2018
”TRACES’, Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2018
'THE END', Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2017
'BREACH', Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2016
'Petrichor', Visible Ink, RMIT anthology of creative writing, artwork inclusion 2015
UNVEILING CONTEMPORARIES, Feature artist, 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
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words from 'UNVEILING CONTEMPORARIES' 2014, by Petra Nicel
"Jo has an undeniable ability to create work that is moving, stimulating and curious.
This series stretches the subject beyond the dimensions of the image and into the 3-dimensional world; such a playful, beautiful and considered approach.
What initially struck me about Jo's work was her absolute, incontrovertible technical skill. Something that has been discussed a lot in my circles lately is the traditionally 'difficult' parts of the human body to translate into works of art; the feet, and, of course, the hands. The hands are such a fascinating and beautiful part of the body - they truly tell a story. They can be used to communicate, to act, and to move. Jo so delicately captures everything that is beautiful about them; the way they move, the way the muscles show, the way they grasp or cup things, the way their movements affect the muscles in the arms. They are complex, and to me, mesmerising. Jo draws them with such detail and elegance. I feel as though I could reach out and stroke the skin of that greyscale subject - it is warming, and it is rare for an artwork to make you feel that way. And by adding these sculptures into the foreground she creates a whole environment, an external context for the figure - a suggestion that they are living, moving characters. The sculptures add to the sense of story; they meld together into a narrative and challenge drawing traditions. Jo moves beyond the idea of drawings being flat and still.
Her stunning combination of 2D and 3D brings her work to life; it fills the exhibition space with movement and energy.
These objects and images are so emotive; by looking at them I feel as though I have become the hand, and much like the drawing, am reaching into another state of being."