/ Artist Statement
"... a house that has been experienced is not an inert box" - Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.
Through my research and art I explore ideas about our personal experience of space and investigate our relationship with the spaces we inhabit. How we affect space and buildings and how these in turn affect us... and reflect us.
I seek to create windows of opportunity for people to engage with the spaces around us in another way. I do this in both my two-dimensional work and large scale light installations by paring everything down to the simplest ingredients and stripping away the clutter so that only the essential elements remain. I am seeking a distilled simplicity - an accessible interface - where the complexities and inner workings are evident yet quiet and subtle in the background.
Creating art for public places is an important direction in both my two-dimensional media, light work and installations as I am interested in the many ways we experience and perceive the spaces around us.
/ Bio
Jane Crappsley is a Melbourne based artist who works across drawing, print media, and light. She graduated from the National Institute of the Arts in 2001 with a BA in Visual Arts (Hons) and in 2007 completed an Advanced Diploma in Multimedia (Interactive) at Victoria University.
Her drawings and prints have been exhibited in a number of national exhibitions, and have won numerous prizes, including ‘Outstanding Artistic Expression’ at the Nokia Arts Awards Asia-Pacific, in Seoul, Korea. Her work is held in public and private collections throughout Australia. She has also been commissioned to create art for public places including the Tram Stop 21 project (2008) and the Royal Brisbane Womens' Hospital Platform project (2011).
After exhibiting her first kinetic light installation with Experimenta (Melbourne) in 2002, Jane has continued her exploration into light, space and audience experience. In 2007 she completed her light installation ‘Responsive light drawing’ which combined fibre optics, LED’s and motion detection to create a sculptural light drawing that gradually revealed itself by responding to your movement through the space.
Jane is continuing to investigate the collaboration between light and space through her art work and develop her lighting business Two Layers of Cells.
/ CV
Education:
2008 Certificate IV Business (Small Business), NMIT, VIC
2006 – 2007 Advanced Diploma of Multimedia (Interactive), Victoria University, VIC
1997 – 2001 Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Printmedia & Drawing), National Insititue of Art, ANU, ACT
1995 – 1996 Diploma of Art and Design, WA College of Art and Design, Perth, WA
Public Art Commissions:
2011 Platform - Royal Brisbane Womens Hospital Busways Project, Museum of Brisbane, QLD
2008 Tram Stop 21 Project, Moreland City Council, Melbourne, VIC
Public Collections:
Family Law Court of WA
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 The Poetics of Space, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, VIC
2010 First Thoughts (Un-thought drawings), Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Selected Group Exhibitions and Publications:
2008 Tram Stop 21 Project, Moreland City Council, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Hatch ‘08, Victoria University Gallery, VIC
2006 TREV Art Prize, Per Square Metre Gallery, VIC
2005 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, NSW
2005 CCAS Drawing Award, ACT
2004 "ISO Magazine", Perth, WA, distributed internationally
2002 Prototype, Experimenta (part of the 2002 Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival), Blackbox Gallery, VIC
2001 Lift Off 2001, Canberra School of Art, ACT
2001 CSA Drawing Prize, CSA Gallery Foyer, ACT
2001 Wild Sheep Chase, CSA Gallery, ACT
2000 Nokia Arts Awards: Asia-Pacific 2000, Seoul, Korea
2000 CSA Drawing Prize, CSA Gallery Foyer, ACT
1998 Hutchins School Art Prize, Hobart, TAS
1998 "The book of LOUD", program for the national LOUD multimedia festival
1997 CSA Drawing Prize, CSA Gallery Foyer, ACT
1997 City of Perth Photographic Award, Perth, WA
1997 7th Annual Open Print Award, Impressions Gallery, Perth, WA
Awards:
2001 Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS); Finlay Press Residency Award
2001 Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS); Megalo Arts Access Residency Award
2000 Award for ‘Outstanding Artistic Expression’, Nokia Arts Awards: Asia-Pacific 2000
2000 First Prize, Inter-College Art Show, Canberra, ACT
2000 Second Prize, SOUP Magazine, 'Self-Portrait', WA
1994 Outstanding Achievement in the 'Quest For Excellence Visual Arts and Design Exhibition', Art Gallery of WA
Professional Memberships:
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
Artworkers, QLD