Jane Burton Taylor's art practice is multidisciplinary and incorporates photography, film, sculpture and installation. She has an ongoing interest in place and how we perceive it, personally, socially, and it terms of architectural archetypes. She is often drawn strongly to either a place or a structure, and then evolves works around this place or space. It is a pursuit that allows her to draw links between past and contemporary civilisations and universal human drives. Much of her work is initiated in response to local and global environmental and political situations, in particular race relations and the flawed workings of democracy worldwide. Materials the artist works with include paper, fabric, bees wax, recycled plastic, ice, timber and steel.

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2018 Master of Fine Art, Sculpture, National Art School
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture, National Art School
2014 Master of Art, Photography/ Sculpture, UNSW Art & Design (COFA)
1998 Master of Arts, Journalism, UTS
1980 Bachelor of Visual Arts Photography and Film Making, Sydney College of the Arts

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2025 Flight, Corban & Blair Window Gallery, 2 Victoria Street, Lewisham.
2024/25 Flight, a commissioned street wall work, Corner Buckland and Botany Streets, Alexandria.
2024 Not Terra Nullius 11, 4th Wall Gallery, Stanmore.
2024 Not Terra Nullius 11, Trafalgar Street, Annandale.
2023 Not Terra Nullius, Buckland, Alexandria.
2023 LSR Exhibition, Q Station, (collaboration), Sydney.
2023 Not Terra Nullius, Darlington Art Projects, Darlington.
2023 Redeeming Love, Shac Gallery, Bowral.
2014 Qui e Li and Earth, Nuvole Gallery, Palermo, Sicily.
2014 Grove, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne.
2013 Grove, Barometer Gallery, Paddington.
2012 Earth, Photo Access Gallery, Canberra.
2010 Earth, Barometer Gallery, Paddington.
2007 Il Destino, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell.
2007 Il Destino and Origini, 12 Italian Australian families, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills.
2005 Origini, Point Light Gallery, Surry Hills.
2003 Worlds Apart, Gallery East, Clovelly.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Fisher Ghost Art Award 2022, Campbelltown Arts Centre , Campbelltown.
2024 Bed Chamber, North Sydney Art Prize, (collaboration), Waverton.
2023 Reimagine Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby.
2022/23 Curated Windows, Bearing Witness, SLOT on the Rocks, (collaboration),The Rocks, Sydney.
2022 Fisher Ghost Art Award 2022, Campbelltown Arts Centre , Campbelltown.
2022 Hornsby Art Prize, Hornsby.
2022 Sculptures in the Garden, (collaboration), Mudgee.
2022 Meroogal Women’s’ Art Prize, Nowra.
2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (collaboration), Manly.
2022 Bearing Witness, Slot Window Gallery, (collaboration), Redfern.
2022 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide.
2022 North Sydney Art Prize, The Coal Loader, North Sydney.
2022 Tethered, Incinerator Art Space, (collaboration), Willoughby.
2022 The Alice Art Prize, Alice Springs.
2021 The John Glover Art Prize 2021, Falls Park Pavilion, Evandale, Tasmania.
2020 Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2020, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown.
2020 Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Meroogal, Nowra.
2020 Unfolding, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughy.
2020​ Frolic Freeze, Articulate Space, Leichhardt.
2019 Emanate, New England Regional Museum.
2018 Lost Threads, Articulate Space, Leichhardt.
2018 National Art School MFA Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst.
2017 Weightless, Hoff Space,National Art School, Darlinghurst.
2017 Ramparts, Harbour Sculpture 2017, Clarkes Point Reserve, Woolwich.
2016 National Art School Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst.
2016 Call of the Wild, Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize, Seas Street Gallery, Meadowbank.
2015 The Call, Articulate Space, Leichhardt.
2014 Brethren 2, Articulate Space, Leichhardt.
2014 Brethren 1, The Annual, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington.
2013 My Mother Told Me, Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.
2013 Clean Washing, Hidden: Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk, Rookwood.
2013 Fanny's Dress, In-situ, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman.
2012/13 Earth, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane.
2012 First Contact, Blacktown City Art Gallery Prize Exhibition, Blacktown.
2012 Is this our Dream?, in show Untold Narratives, COFA Space, Paddington.
2012 Grove 3, Blake Prize Exhibition, Directors Cut.
2012 In the Minds Eye, with Helen Sturgess, Primrose Park Gallery, Cammeray.


AWARDS


2023 Reimagine Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, highly commended.
2016 Parkers Sydney Fine Art Sculpture Award 3rd year, National Art School.
2016 Call of the Wild, Sustainable Waste 2 Art Prize, Seas Street Gallery, highly commended.
2012 First Contact, Blacktown City Art Gallery Prize Exhibition, highly commended.


RESIDENCIES

2023 July/ August, Q Station Residency (collaboration), Manly.
2014 Six months, artist residency Coal loader, North Sydney.
2013 One month, Portus archaeological dig site, near Ostia, Italy.
2012 Six months, artist in residency Primrose Park Studio, Cammeray.


COLLECTIONS

2024 39 social documentary hand printed silver gelatin prints held by The National Library of Australia.
2007 8 social documentary hand printed silver gelatin prints purchased by The National Library of Australia.
2007 21 social documentary hand printed silver gelatin prints purchased by State Library of NSW.
2006 Book published: Qui e Li, a photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians, distributed by Thames and Hudson.