Jane Burden

'After Rain' Burnished and smoke-fired clay with various yarns on brass hooks. Similar work £350-600

'Does the Sun Come Out or do the Clouds Go Away?' Burnished and smoke-fired clay with various threads on brass hooks. Similar work £350-600.

'Archive labels: Sherborne House' Porcelain casts (from moulds taken in endangered Dorset buildings.) Similar work £350-800

Bowl from 'Eggerdon Hill' landscape series Earthenware with locally sourced slips and glazes. 2014 Similar bowl: £60-80.00

'Liberated Memories' Dorset County Museum 'Artyfacts' exhibition Porcelain casts and Encyclopaedia Brittanica

'Tangled Threads 3' Dyed and warp-wrapped sisal, Burnished and smoke-fired clay Mixed yarns. Similar work £600-700.

By combining low-fired, hand-built ceramics, pressed porcelain casts and colourful textile threads, Jane Burden produces highly crafted, reflective work that connects to themes of ancient landscape, social history and human emotion. Her most recent project, the catharticTangled Threads series, explores on a number of different levels the tensions between calm and chaos, order and confusion. Considered use of materials and techniques bring together beautifully hand-cut and burnished thread ‘cards’, which are individually stamped, smoke-fired and wrapped in dyed yarns. The careful arrangements of smoke tones and subtle coloured threads allow for powerful communication through a unique medium.

She works from her studio in West Dorset where she is connected to land and sea; she is a member of the prestigious Dorset Makers group; won the Ilminster Open prize and has a permanent piece at Dorset County Hospital. A long standing member and former trustee of Dorset Visual Arts and an active member of Wessex Contemporary Artists, she exhibits regularly.

Jane Burden, West Dorset.

Email: janeehburden@icloud.com

Website: www.janeburden.co.uk

Instagram: @janethreadandclay

Tel: 01300 321501

CV:

1973-77: Bath Academy of Art and Leeds Polytechnic 3D Design BA hons.

1977-85: Set up The Julian Workshop (textiles) in Sherborne, selected as Full Exhibiting Member of Dorset Craft Guild and exhibitor at The Contemporary Textile Gallery, Vigo Street London.

1985-95: moved to Cambridge, co-founder Cambridge Open Studios; pottery technician and teacher at Chesterton Community College; Cambridge University, Homerton: PGCE in Secondary Art

1997-2015: Art teacher and owner of ArtXtrA, an AQA accredited art school offering GCSE, A level and art workshops; National Gallery ‘Take One Picture’ training sessions.

2010: permanent installation of ‘Puck’s Girdle’ at Dorset County Hospital. Selected for Wesca membership; invitations to join Dorchester Arts and DVA Board of Trustees.

2016 overall winner of Ilminster Open; selected for Making Dorset.

2017: invitations to join Dorchester Arts and DVA Board of Trustees.

Exhibitions:

Contemporary Textile Gallery London 1990

Kettles Yard Cambridge 1995

Wysing Arts Cambs 1996

Dorset Art Weeks 1998 onwards..

Dorset County Museum 2002 & 2010

Study Gallery, Poole 2008

Sherborne House 2008 & 20012

Durleston Park Gallery 2015 & 2016

Eype Gallery 2017 & 20

Walford Mill 2016 & 2017

Allsop Gallery, Bridport 2016 & 2017

Ilminster Art Centre 2016 & 2017

Harold Hillier Gardens 2017

Wolfton House Dorset Makers 2017

Instagram ‘Winter Becomes Spring’ lockdown project 2020-2021

2 West Walks, Dorchester 2021 & 2022