JANE DIXON

Untitled 2012 - from Model Series.

News:

Unknown Fields: Recent British Drawings – Young Gallery, Salisbury (curated by Trinity Contemporary, London). February 11th – March 24th 2012.
This group exhibition will include five new Boxed Earth drawings from Model Series and one drawing from Regeneration. Details and images can be found at www.trinitycontemporary.com

The Curator's Egg Altera Pars – Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. February 2nd – March 3rd 2012.
A group exhibition of artists each selected by prominent figures in the artworld. A painting from the Camouflage Series is being shown, I was selected by Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Details can be found at www.anthonyreynolds.com

Out of Rubble, a book by Susanne Slavick was published by CHARTA art books in 2011. ISBN 978-88-8158 810-7
A survey of international artists including; Julie Mehretu, Simon Norfolk, Cornelia Parker, Anselm Kiefer, Liu Bolin, Xu Bing and Wafaa Bilal, all of whom react to the wake of war in their work.
A selection of the artists are included in the exhibition Out of Rubble which began in December at Space, Pittsburgh, USA and will continue touring until 2014. Works from Regeneration are included in the book and tour.

Urban Lifecycles – Sun Valley Centre for the Arts, Idaho, U.S.A. February 17th – April 13th 2012.
A multidisciplinary project exploring the impact of growth, decay and renewal on physical and cultural life of cities. City Index, 2006-07, will be shown as part of this installation. www.sunvalleycenter.org

The Victoria and Albert Museum has newly acquired three works from Regeneration for its collection: a drawn diptych Site Edit VII, 2009 has been purchased and will be included in a museum display and book by Susan Owens, curator of paintings, about British drawings in the collection. Publication is expected in 2013. To complement the drawing, two prints (etchings II and IV) from Regeneration Suite, 2007 have been purchased for the collection.

Catalogue quotations:

"For me, the most affecting drawings are those which are peculiar and lucid (....) In this selection one finds such distinct 'handwriting': the very built up coloured dots and clear script in Alison Turnbull's chart, the muted drifts within passges by David Musgrave, Don Brown, Emma McNally, George Shaw, Jane Dixon or Alison Wilding, all of whom think with shading, razor cuts, frottage, transparencies and employ techniques that deliberately lose their eloquence in reproduction."

"What interests me is that you are able to produce images that appear calm out of such intensity or violence, yet that remain threatening. It is that sense of vulnerability combined with a troubling vitality that is fascinatng because so fragile, as if you have caught a moment of tension or poise between two such opposing states."

Simon Groom in conversation with Jane Dixon for the catalogue to accompany the exhibition 'Solid Sate: reflections upon the real' which she exhibited in and curated for Kettles' Yard, Cambridge in 2001.

"Her work is about vulnerability. It is about the human body, although the body is almost never present. It adresses the fears and sensations that the body engenders and arouses. Her paintings map the extent of our fragility and articulate the sensation of containment within fallible, organic, imperfect bodies. They speak eloquently of simple but important truths: of our need to hide our failings, to protect our weakness: they negotiate fundamental human paranoias - medical invasion, decrepitude, the threat of violence - and our fear of what is inevitable."

Ben Tufnell, curator at Tate Britain (taken from Under False Colours, 2004)

Catalogues available:

Regeneration - an illustrated programme for the exhibition of works on paper which took place in January/February 2008 is available from Tokyo Gallery +BTAP. Contact via info@tokyo-gallery.com or www.tokyo-gallery.com

A fully illustrated catalogue for In Between the Lines: Recent British Drawings is available to download from www.trinitycontemporary.com or contact the gallery.

Under False Colours Published by Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, with essay by Ben Tufnell, text is in both English and Japanese.   ISBN 1 900809 21 4

Parallel Objects  Published by Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 OAQ
ISBN 0 907074 83 9

Solid State  Published by Kettle's Yard, Telephone - 01223 352124
ISBN 0 907074 89 8

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