Encounters @ Glen Eira City Council

Karen Woodbury Gallery artists Jane Burton and Simon Obarzanek have been included in an exhibition Encounters to be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery.

Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition will investigate how each of the artists respond to themes of personal history, memory, identity, ritual, presence and absence, responding to specific sites in public, private, staged and natural environments.

Encounters offers a diverse mix of media (photography, performance, drawing and video installation) and is linked by each of the artists shared sense of the interrelationship between the body, space and time. 

The exhibition opens on Wednesday the 30th of May 2012 for drinks at 6.30pm and will continue until June 24th 2012.

Click here for more information about the show.

Jane Burton, White Stain #9, 2011, pigment print, 110.0 x 110.0cm

Simon Obarzanek, Untitled movement no.2 #6, 2010, C-type hand print, 100.0 x 120.0cm

Fantastic Dreamland | Jane Burton

Jane Burton has been selected to be a part of a group show to be held in Shanghai titled Fantastic Dreamland: Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Photography. 

The show will run from April 24th until May 13th 2012. The exhibition also includes work by Melbourne based artist Sonia Payes.

For more information about the show or to view it online, click here.

Jane Burton, 'White Stain # 8', 2011

Jane Burton Book Launch @ CCP

Jane Burton's new book
"Other Stories"
will be launched by Charlotte Day, Associate Curator, ACCA at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy

Wednesday March 7, 6-8pm

Other publications to be launched on the night are Darren Sylvester and Simon Terrill.

For more information click here

New Romantics

Simon Gregg (Curator of the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale) has recently published the book 'New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art' that features the work of our gallery artists Jane Burton & Philip Wolfhagen, in addition to 34 other contemporary Australian artists.

Set against the dazzling backdrop of the Australian sublime, 'New Romantics' charts the dynasties of Romantic art. From its nascent beginnings in European philosophy to a cause championed by Australian colonialists, this compelling survey seeks to understand how it has landed in the hands of a new generation of Australian artists.

To order a copy, please contact Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Coming Soon | Jane Burton

Karen Woodbury Gallery is pleased to announce Jane Burton’s solo exhibition White Stain, a series of photographic works on display from 26 October – 19 November.

Burton’s new works deal with images and ideas surrounding light, shadow, fragility, decay and the female form. The audience is presented with a series of images of anonymous naked female bodies that inhabit mysterious dark interiors. The singular female form is a central theme in Burton’s work. In ‘White Stain’ the figures appear, ‘isolated in light fall, at once revealed but also self-contained and protected.’

Imitation of Life, Jane Burton & Fabrice Bigot

Jane Burton and Fabrice Bigot are currently exhibiting a dual channel video installation 'Imitation of Life' at Screenspace, 30 Guilford Lane, Melbourne. Exhibition continues until 8 October. For further information visit: www.screenspace.com

Artist Profile: Current issue

The current issue of Artist Profile is a feast for the eyes in more ways than one!

Del Kathryn Barton features on the cover and in an in-depth interview with Owen Craven - offering a sneak peek into her studio and exquisite new works in progress. Brett Ballard previews Jane Burton's stunning new body of photographic works and Dan Rule talks to Locust Jones.

Certainly a bumper issue and definitely worth picking up a copy...

Jane Burton and Fabrice Bigot | Film project

Gallery artist Jane Burton and partner Fabrice Bigot have been busy collaborating on some film projects. Their most recent film Imitation of Life (a dual video installation, 3:30min) was recently awarded Winner - Best Experimental Film at the Three Minute Film Festival in Indiana USA.

The film / installation will be screened in Melbourne at Screen Space, from September 16 - October 8. We will keep you updated!

Jane Burton - In the Blood

Jane Burton will exhibit a new body of work, titled, In the blood at Gippsland Art Gallery. Curator of Gippsland Art Gallery, Simon Gregg has written an exquisite essay about Jane's work in the limited edition catalogue.

Gregg writes about Jane's luscious and evocative photographs, their deep appeal to the imagination and their reference to the Australian Gothic. In the blood will officially open this evening from 6.30pm by Dr David Hansen, curator and art writer. Jane Burton will hold an artist talk before the opening at 6pm.



Jane Burton In the blood
Gippsland Art Gallery
February 5 - March 27 2011



top image: Jane Burton, In the Blood #2 2010, 17 x 25 cm, pigment print, edn of 3
bottom image: Jane Burton, In the Blood #8 2010, 17 x 25 cm, pigment print, edn of 3

Jane Burton: Ipswich House Project images

Here is a peek at some of Jane Burton's most recent works commissioned by Ipswich Art Gallery for the The Ipswich House: Heritage house portraits by contemporary Queensland artists. (Although based in Melbourne, Jane was born in Queensland!)

The exhibition is current until Sunday, 14 November 2010.

MacFarlane's House #1 and #3, 2010
pigment print
43.0 x 43.0 cm

Jane Burton

Gallery artist Jane Burton has been super busy of late, shortlisted as a finalist in two photographic prizes and working on a new commission.

Jane's work has been selected for the 2010 National Photography Prize - Modern Narratives: Photography as Story Teller, Albury Art Gallery, July 30 - September 26 and, the 2010 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, September 23 - October 24.

Ipswich Art Gallery have commissioned and acquired new work from Jane for the Ipswich Heritage House portraits project. The new work will be exhibited from September 11 - November 14.





Jane Burton
Portrait of L (from the series Velvet Portrait Suite) 2010
pigment ink-jet print
62 x 51 cm
(finalist: 2010 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize)

Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh @ 24HRArt

Jane Burton and Monika Tichacek are currently exhibiting in a group exhibition Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh at 24HrArt in Darwin, until 12 June 2010.

Jane Burton - Gold Goast City Gallery acquisition

Congratulations to Jane Burton for the acquisition of her work Ivy#1 by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery  
through the Josephine Ulrick Win Schubert Photography Award. Jane was a finalist in the 2010 Award exhibition that closed on 23 May 2010.