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Jane Dixon
About the artist...
Artist Jane Dixon continues to explore the relationship between
machinery and human experience.
In 1996 she began a series of drawings based on medical machinery.
The works referred to a metaphorical, rather than an anatomical,
representation of the body. They relate not only to the machines
themselves but also to scans of the human body. Dixon uses the structure
and methods of her work as a corporeal metaphor and says she regards
her drawings as hand-made x-rays.
The armour series was made between 1998 and 2000. The works explore
the notion of armour as a mechanical or substitute body, where the
fragility of the image negates the purpose of the objects. In all
the work, the objects retain a precise physicality in spite of their
insubstantial form. The armour or machinery may represent only a
trace of its former self, but traces can be an indication of something
yet to come - marks of an emerging form.
It is this blurring of the boundary between concreteness and illusoriness, a wavering between presence and absence that I want to create.
Jane Dixon
Dixon studied Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art and Design
and received her MA at the Royal College of Art. She has won numerous
awards including The Rome Scholarship for Printmaking in 1989, The
Rothko Fellowship in 1997 and was the Kettle's Yard Artist Fellow
in 2000/2001. She has been exhibiting in Britain and Europe and
her work can be found in many public and private collections including
Victoria & Albert Museum and The Arts Council Collection.
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2001 |
Parallel Objects, Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Pump
Rooms, Leamington Spa |
| 2000 |
Parallel Objects, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge |
| 1998 |
Beneath the Surface, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery and
Anne Faggionato, London |
| 1995 |
Artist of the Day, Critic's Choice, Selected by Bryan
Robertson, Flowers East, London |
| 1992 |
Recent Drawings, Coexistence Art, London |
| 1992 |
Possible Bodies, Café Gallery, London |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2001 |
Solid State:Reflections Upon the Real, Kettle's Yard,
Cambridge, also curator of this show |
| 2000 |
The Frissiras Collection, Frissiras Museum, Athens |
| 2000 |
Artist's Editions, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1999 |
'45-'99 A personal view of British Painting and Sculpture
by Bryan Robertson, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Leicester City
Art Gallery |
| 1999 |
Physical Evidence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Djanogly
Art Gallery, Nottingham |
| 1999 |
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London |
| 1998 |
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1997 |
Natwest Art Prize, Lothbury Gallery, London |
| 1997 |
Marking Presence, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire |
| 1996 |
British Abstract Art - Part 3 - Works on paper, Flowers
East, London |
| 1996 |
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1996 |
International Drawing Open 1996, Cheltenham |
| 1995 |
Contemporary Art Society Art Market, Royal Festival
Hall, London |
| 1995 |
Visionfest '95, Merseyside |
| 1994 |
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1994 |
Eleventh Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Overseas League,
London |
| 1994 |
Contemporary Art Society Art Market, Royal Festival
Hall, London |
| 1993 |
The Arthur Andersen Award for Figurative Art, Arthur
Andersen, London |
| 1993 |
Eleventh Cleveland International Drawing Biennale,
Cleveland Art Gallery |
| 1993 |
Fifth Open Show, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| 1992 |
Contemporary Collection, Coexistence Fine Art, London |
| 1992 |
Papirial '92, Malovány Dum, Trebic, Czech Republic |
| 1992 |
The Selected Line, William Jackson Gallery, London |
| 1991 |
The Leicestershire Collection Exhibition, Beaumanor
Hall, Loughborough |
| 1991 |
East, The Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art
and Design, NorwichGallery |
| 1991 |
The South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London |
| 1990 |
Mostra '90, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 1990 |
Editions 1/90, International Art Fair, Basel |
| 1990 |
Rome Scholars 1980-1990, Gulbenkian Upper Gallery,
R.C.A, London |
| 1990 |
11th British International Print Biennale, Cartwright
Hall, Bradford and R.C.A., London |
| 1990 |
Riverside One Open, Riverside One, London |
| 1988 |
Open to Print, R.C.A. National Exhibition |
| 1988 |
150 Years of Printmaking at the R.C.A., Barbican Centre,
London |
| 1988 |
All Too Human, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton |
| 1987 |
International Art Fair, F.I.A.C., Paris |
| 1986 |
Fresh Art, The Barbican Centre, London |
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| EDUCATION |
| 1986-1988 |
Royal College of Art, London, M.A. Printmaking |
| 1983-1986 |
West Surrey College of Art and Design, B.A. Hons Fine Art |
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| AWARDS & SCOLARSHIPS |
| 2000 |
London Arts Board, Research and Development Award |
| 1999 |
Jerwood Painting Prize (Short listed Artist) |
| 1997 |
Natwest Arts Prize (Short listed artist) |
| 1996 |
International Drawing Open 1996, Cheltenham |
| 1993 |
Fifth Open Studio (Winner), Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| 1992 |
British Council Travel Grant for Czech Republic |
| 1989-1990 |
Rome Scholarship (Printmaking), The British School at Rome |
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| RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS |
| 1999 |
Kettle's Yard and New Hall Artist Fellowship, 2000-2001 |
| 1997 |
Rothko Fellowship, Mark Rothko Memorial Trust (for travel
and research in the USA) |
| 1994 |
Openshaw Printmaking Residency, Lowick House Print Workshop,
Cumbria |
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