Born Brisbane, 13th July 1966
Education
1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
1993 Honorary Research Associate, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
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
Solo Exhibitions
2007 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
Collections and Acquisitions
2000/6 Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2005 Newcastle Region Gallery
2001 National Gallery of Victoria
2001 Artbank, Sydney
2000 Australia Post
1994 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Private Collections
Selected Exhibitions
2007 The Last Thing I remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry, University
Art Gallery, The University of Sydney
Australian Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2006 Light Sensitive - Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon
Fund, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Salon, Bett Gallery, Hobart
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
Black and White, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Art for Science, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Opening Exhibition, Johnston Gallery, Perth
Loaded, Gallery 101, Melbourne
The Naked Truth: A Photographic Exploration, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Good Looking: Narrative Photographs Past and Present, Ian Potter Centre, NGV
Australia, Federation Square, Touring Exhibition
National Trust , S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
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
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: Channeling 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 Gallery, 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
Selected Bibliography
2007 Robert Nelson, Humanity takes over where nature’s cold branches can’t reach,
The Age, 20 June
Jeff Makin, Sensuality on the dark side, Herald Sun, 11 June
2006 Isobel Crombie, Light Sensitive - Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti
Smorgon Fund, exhibition publication, National Gallery of Victoria
McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions in association with
Miegunyah Press
Kyla McFarlane, The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie
Trenerry, catalogue essay, Monash University Museum of Art
Kyla McFarlane, Jane Burton: I did it for you, Photofile No 77 Autumn
2005 Daniel Palmer, Book Editor, Photogenic: Essays/Photography/CCP 2000 -2004,
Centre for Contemporary Photography, publication
Ashley Crawford, Jane Burton: I Did It For You, The Age, Preview, 4 December
Catriona Moore, Decoration, Aspiration and Nostalgia: Contemporary Australian
Photography, Art and Australia, Vol 42 No 3
Felix Ratcliffe, Jane Burton: The Fall, Photofile No 74 Winter
Ashley Crawford, Loaded, Previews, Australian Art Collector, Issue 32 April - June. .
Victoria Hammond, The Fall, catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Hobart.
2004 Ashley Crawford, Shadowlands, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28 April - June
Magda Keaney, Jane Burton - Available Light, Photofile, No 71 Winter
2003 Lucinda Strahan, Perfect Point of Light, The Age, 9 October
Ashley Crawford, Art of Darkness, The Age, 28 September
Ashley Crawford, Moods in Light, Business Review Weekly, June 12 -18
Natasha Bullock, Anxious Bodies, catalogue essay, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
2002 Daniel Palmer, Icons and Other Pictures - The Photograph in the Art Market,
Australian Art Collector, Issue 21, July - September
Chris Chapman, Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector,
Issue 19, January - March
2001 Ashley Crawford, Now You See It..., The Age, Review, December
Daniel Palmer, Between Place and Non-Place, Photofile, No 62, April
2000 Helen McDonald, Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art, Routledge Press, UK
Samantha Morris, Absence Minded, Black & White, October
Robert Nelson, Lust for Art, The Age, Review, 28 August
Ashley Crawford, Undiscovered Artists: Jane Burton, Australian Art Collector, Issue
12, April - June
1999 Edward Colless, The Sweetest Path, Photofile, No 57, Sept
Ian McLean, 'F" is for Art, Siglo, Issue 11
1998 KevinMurray, All This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art,
Artlink, Vol 18 No 2
Natalie King, Private Parts, catalogue essay, Monash University Gallery
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 S A
Edward Colless, Jane Burton - Royal Derwent Hospital Suite, catalogue essay, All
This and Heaven Too, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of S A
1996 Helen McDonald, Feminising the Surreal, Art and Australia, Vol 34 No2
1995 Jennifer Spinks, Bad Light, Art and Australia, Vol 32 No 4
Clifford Davey, Bad Light: Through a Glass, Darkly, Contemporary Art Tasmania,Issue No 7
1995 Ian McLean, Bad Light, Agenda, No 42, May
Edward Colless, Ghosting, Photofile, No 44, April
1994 Victoria Hammond, Trapped in Paradise, Artlink, No 1 Vol 14
1993 Edward Colless, From the Edge of the World, Art and Australia, June
1992 Amanda Henry, Sweet Sickness, Photofile, No 37, Nov
Clifford Davey, Like Always I Persuade You, catalogue essay - This Sweet Sickness
1991 Peter Hill, Lust, Art and Text, # 40, Sept
Jane Burton lives and works in Melbourne |
