'Motherland 1' by Jane Burton
Born in 1966, Jane Burton currently lives and works in
Melbourne. In 1991, she graduated with a BFA (Honours) in Photography
from the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, followed by an Honorary
Research Associate in 1993. Since then, Burton has held numerous solo
exhibitions nationally, and has participated in many curated exhibitions
and museum shows. Recently, Burton was included in Trace Elements:
spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia at the Tokyo
Opera City Art Gallery, and neo goth: back in black at the University of
Queensland Art Museum. This year she will exhibit Eye of the Beholder: A
twenty-year survey, at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne. Burton
has been the recipient of residencies in Paris and London, and her work
is held in prominent private and public collections.
Ed
2009
Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Ivy, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Jane Burton, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2008
when under ether, Apartment, Melbourne
motherland, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
motherland, Bett Gallery, Hobart
motherland, Johnston Gallery, Perth
2007
Wormwood, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
Tarraleah, Apartment, Melbourne
Wormwood, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Wormwood, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2006
under water, Apartment, Melbourne
I did it for you, Johnston Gallery, Perth
2005
I did it for you, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
The Fall, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2004
The Fall, Bett Gallery, Hobart
Available Light, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2003
Available Light, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
The Other Side, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2002
The Other Side, Crossley & Scott, Melbourne
2001
Badlands, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Cul-de-Sac, Dickerson Scott, Melbourne
1999
The Sweetest Path, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart; and
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Group
Exhibitions (selected)
2009
The Lake, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
A Secret Life of Plants, Linden – Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne; and Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth +/-, Switchback Gallery,
Gippsland Centre for Art & Design, Monash University, Churchill, Vic;
and Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University,
Caulfield, Vic
Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia,
Performance Space, Sydney
Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh, South Australian School of Art,
Adelaide
2008
Primary Views: Artists Curate The Monash University Collection, Monash
University Museum of Art, Melbourne
neo goth: back in black, The University of Queensland Art Museum,
Brisbane
Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia,
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park,
Vic
Decor, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Rooftop Cinema, Melbourne
2007
National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery,
Canberra
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art,
Vic
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry,
University
Art Gallery, The University of Sydney
2006
Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti
Smorgon Fund,
The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry,
Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash
University, Vic
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art,
Vic
2005
The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Loaded, Gallery 101, Melbourne
2004
Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, Touring Exhibition
2003
Boogy, Jive and Bop, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
Anxious Bodies, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Australian Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
2001
Between Place and Non-Place, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery,
Melbourne
Hutchins Contemporary Art Prize, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2000
Spooky, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Moral Hallucination: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
Landscape, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne
1999
"F"- Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project, Plimsoll
Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, National
Touring Exhibition
1998
Respond Red or Blue, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne International
Festival
Everyday, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Private Parts, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
1997
Episodes, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, National Touring
Exhibition
1996
City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1995
Bad Light, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, National Touring
Exhibition
Colonial Past-time to Contemporary Profession: 150 Years of Australian
Womens’ Art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
1994
Recent Acquisitions, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Incorporeal 4: Scrounge Time, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts,
University of Tasmania, Hobart
1993
The Honeymoon Killers, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1992
Collecting Art: Critics Choice, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
This Sweet Sickness, Fine Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1991
Lust, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania,
Hobart
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Residencies and Awards
2005 - Australia Council Residency, London Studio
2003 - Arts Victoria Development Grant (Creation)
1993 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris - Lloyd Rees Travelling
Scholarship and Residency
RACV Art
Collection, Victoria
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Glen Eira City Council, Melbourne
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Murdoch University, Perth
Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong and London
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Newcastle Region Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Australia Post
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Private Collections
Bibliography (selected)
2009
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Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
2009
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Fluorescent Flesh, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
Ashley Crawford, Reviews: ‘Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh’, Photofile,
issue 86 March–June 2009
Andrew Gaynor, ‘A Secret Life of Plants: One Person’s Pleasure Is
Another One’s Weed, catalogue essay, A Secret Life Of Plants, Linden –
Centre for Contemporary Arts 2009
Ingrid Periz, ‘Acquisitions: Jane Burton’, Australian Art Collector,
issue 47, January–March 2009 2008
Gail Priest, ‘Time slips in an other place’, Trace Elements, Yokohama
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Hobart
2004
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National Gallery of Victoria
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2003
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2002
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2000
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Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania 1999
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1998
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Natalie King, ‘Private Parts’, catalogue essay, Private Parts, Monash
University Gallery, 1998
Ewen McDonald, ‘Invention or Symbol? Tracing Shapes
in the Dark’, catalogue essay, All This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide
Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Edward Colless, ‘Jane Burton – Royal Derwent Hospital Suite’, catalogue
essay, All This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian
Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
1996
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1995
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1992
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Clifford Davy, ‘Like always I persuade you’, catalogue essay, This Sweet
Sickness, published by Jane Burton and Jane Eisemann 1992
1991
Peter Hill, ‘Lust’, Art and Text, no. 40, September