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
2011 Best Experimental Film Award, Three Minute Film Festival, Indiana, USA
2009 Residency, The Art Vault, Mildura
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
2011 White Stain, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Imitation of Life, (video), Screen Space, Melbourne
White Stain, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
In the blood, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic
2010 Ivy, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2009 Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
Ivy, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Jane Burton, The Art Vault, Mildura
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
Selected Exhibitions
2011 25 Years Bett Gallery, Bett Gallery, Tas
People and Places, Heiser Gallery, QLD
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, QLD
2010 Gaze: People, Relationships and Place, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD
William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Vic
The Ipswich House: Heritage house portraits by contemporary Queensland artists, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD
Melbourne Art Fair (with Rex Irwin Art Dealer), Royal Exhibition Building, Vic
Souvenirs: Tasmanian School of Art, Rosamund McCulloch Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Plimsoll Gallery,
Centre for the Arts, Hunter St, Hobart
2010 National Photography Prize, Albury Art Gallery, NSW
ouble Exposure, Blackfriars Off Broadway, Sydney
Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh, 24HR ART, NT Centre for Contemporary Art
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre, QLD
Silent Spaces, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Darkness Creeps, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre , NSW
2009 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Vic
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
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
Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Rooftop Cinema, Melbourne
Figure in a Landscape, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
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
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, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Touring Exhibition
National Trust S.H. Erwin 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, 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
Rosamond, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
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, Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney;
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
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
1993 Incorporeal 4: Scrounge Time, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
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
First National Student Art & Design Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Collections and Acquisitions
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic
Trinity College, Melbourne
Ipswich Art Gallery Collection, Queensland
Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland
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 Art Gallery, New South Wales
National Gallery of Victoria
Australia Post
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Private Collections
Selected Bibliography
2011 Ingrid Periz, ‘Other Stories’, essay, Other Stories, 3 Books series, Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2011
Ashley Crawford, ‘Silenced Wonderland: Jane Burton’s Contemporary Photography’, Art Wall, Issue 2, 2011,
Shanghai International Culture Association, China
Edward Colless, ‘Imitation of Life’, catalogue essay, Screen Space, Melbourne
Simon Gregg, ‘New Romantics: Darkness and Light in Australian Art’,
published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2011
Brett Ballard, ‘Jane Burton: White Stain’, Preview, Artist Profile, Issue 15, 2011
Simon Gregg, ‘Jane Burton: In the blood’, catalogue essay, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic
2010 Alison Kubler, ‘Gaze: People, Relationships and Place’, catalogue essay, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD
Anne Marsh, ‘THE BODY: And Perforamative Photography’, LOOK: Contemporary Australain Photography since 1980, published by Macmillan, Melbourne 2010
David O’Halloran, ‘within’, Apartment Books, Melbourne, publication by David O’Halloran and Mana Kawasaki, 2010
Tasha Finn, ‘MacFarlane’s House: Jane Burton’, catalogue essay, The Ipswich House: Heritage house
portraits by contemporary Queensland artists, Ipswich Art Gallery QLD
Sandy Edwards, ‘Double Exposure’, catalogue essay, Double Exposure, Viscopy, Blackfriars off Broadway, NSW
Brett Ballard, ‘Jane Burton’, catalogue essay, Four Women, Melbourne Art Fair 2010
Ashley Crawford, ‘Innocence and Intoxication: The work of Jane Burton’, Eyeline, #70, 2009
50 Most Collectable Artists 2010, Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 January
2009 Natalie King, ‘Fatal Attraction’, Photofile, No 88, Dec 09 – March 10, 2009
Anna MacDonald, ‘Eye of the Beholder’, review, Flash, Issue 3, 2009
Dr Marcus Bunyan, ‘Jane Burton, ‘Ivy’, at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne’, Art Blart blog, 23 September 2009
Helen McDonald, ‘Inhabiting illusions’, catalogue essay, Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, 2009
Diane Soumilas, ‘Private encounters’, catalogue essay, Eye of the Beholder, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, 2009
Robert Nelson, ‘Grabbing our attention’, The Age, 23 September 2009
Betty Milonas, ‘A Secret Life of Plants’, Artlink, Vol 29 #2, 2009
Ric Spencer, ‘Weeds of bloom town’, Today, The West Australian, 19 June
Mimi Kelly, ‘Dark Dreams + Fluorescent Flesh’, Dark Dreams & Fluorescent Flesh,
catalogue, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
Adrian Martin, ‘Sex Neurosis’, Dark Dreams and Fluorescent Flesh, catalogue, 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 Art
Ingrid Periz, ‘Acquisitions: Jane Burton’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 January – March 2009
2008 Gail Priest, ‘Time slips in an other place’, Real Time Dec - Jan 2009
Olivier Krischer, ‘Reflections on a Particular Moment – Do you see what I see?’, Tablog, Tokyo Art Beat 20 Sept 08
Ashley Crawford, ‘Gothic Candour: “I am the coffin that will not be silent”’, Art Monthly Australia #216 Dec 08 – Feb 09
Ashley Crawford, ‘Found in Translation: Australian Art in Tokyo’, Photofile #85 Dec 08 – March 09
Shihoko Iida, ‘Contemporary Trace Elements’, catalogue essay,
Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Bec Dean, ‘Trace Elements: Australian Artists’, catalogue essay,
Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Louise Martin-Chew, ‘Neo-Goth Shadows Loom Large’, catalogue essay, neo goth: back in black,
University of Queensland Art Museum
Rosemary Sorenson, ‘How death becomes you’, The Australian, 1st August
Alicia Bridges, ‘Childhood Dreaming’, The Sunday Times, WA, 8 June
Penny Teale, ‘FX in Contemporary Photography’, catalogue essay, FX in Contemporary Photography,
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2008
Ashley Crawford, ‘Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese and Australian photomedia’, Photofile No 83 Winter
2007 Clara Iaccarino, ‘Wormwood’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28-29 July
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, The Last Thing I Remember... Jane Burton, Lily Hibberd, Brie Trenerry, Monash University Museum of Art, 2006
Kyla McFarlane, ‘Jane Burton: I did it for you’, Photofile No 77 Autumn
Ashley Crawford, ‘Dark Thoughts’, I did it for you, catalogue essay, Johnston Gallery, 2006
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, The Fall, 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, Anxious Bodies, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003
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
Daniel Palmer and Kate Rhodes, ‘Between Place and Non-Place’, catalogue essay,
Victorian College of the Arts and Centre for Contemporaray Photography, 2001
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
Jonathan Holmes, ‘The Paris Studio’, Rosamond, catalogue essay, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts,
University of Tasmania, 1999
1998 Kevin Murray, ‘All This and Heaven Too’, 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Artlink, Vol 18 No 2
Natalie King, ‘Private Parts’, catalogue essay, Private Parts, Monash University Gallery, 1998
Marie-Louise Hillcoat, ‘The Hospital Autopsy: Opening up the Aesthetics of the Medical Gaze’, catalogue essay,
Respond Red or Blue, The Melbourne Festival 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 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’, Review, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Issue No 7 1995
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 Davy, ‘Like always, I persuade you…’, catalgue essay,
This Sweet Sickness, published by Jane Burton and Jane Eisemann 1992
1991 Peter Hill, ‘Lust’, Art and Text, # 40, Sept
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