NotFair 2023
ALCHEMY
8 – 13 December 2023
333 Malvern Road, South Yarra VIC 3141
Biography
Jo Lane
Jo Lane’s work embraces notions of tension and release, engaging our awareness of the spatial while prodding the emotional, in equal measure. The viewer is invited to consider and reflect on the nature of the works themselves, allowing questions to emerge and grow over time, with an empathetic and cathartic response to their deeply human qualities. Whilst immersed in fastidious mark-making and material use as metaphor, decision-making is reflexive, responding intuitively to the outside world and the inside world simultaneously. Working deliberately, and with open curiosity, in the holding space between freedom and constraint, Lane creates works that incorporate sculpture and drawing with a guiding sense of universal poetry. After years of art training both here, Latrobe College and VCA, and in the UK completing a Masters of Fine Art, Drawing, at University of Arts London, she now conducts a full time art practice. Lane has been selected and exhibited in the Kedumba Drawing Award (NSW) four times, HIX Art Award (UK), Xhibit Award (UK), Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award (Vic) twice, Yering Sculpture Prize (Vic) three times, Woollahra Small Sculpture Awards (NSW), Wyndham Art Prize (Vic) three times, Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize (Qld) twice, among others.
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Works
bots 2023. steel and hydrostone. height variable, 250 x 170 mm.
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