Jane Harris (artist)
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Jane Harris (1956 – 2022) was a British painter...[1].
Biography
Early life and education
She spent her formative years in Dorset where she was born in 1956 and began her art studies at Bournemouth College of Art. She went on to the Slade School of Art and 10 years later renewed her studies, graduating with an MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London as part of the Frieze generation of artists[2]. She moved permanently to the Dordogne, France, in 2006 with her husband the sculptor Jiri Kratochvil, and their son George[3].
Career
Harris lectured at Goldsmiths for more than a decade and eventually became an MA course leader in Fine Art[4]. For 30 years Jane Harris explored, through a set of self-imposed rules, the perceptual qualities of the ellipse. It was a shape that, in her hands, lent itself to elasticity and allusion and could take on multiple identities – variously ornate, Spartan, and often, through her beautiful handling of paint, visually mischievous. Carefully painted using oils, each of the meticulous brushstrokes that marked out her curvilinear shapes described both a form, themselves, and a texture, which captures and reflects light[5][6][7]
Collections and recognition
Throughout her career Harris was the recipient of numerous awards, research grants and prizes some of which include the Arts Foundation Painting Fellowship (1995), prize winner at the John Moores Liverpool (1995), Jerwood Drawing Open (1996) and the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a woman artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2012). In 2011 and 2015 she was Artist in Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA and in 2012 at the Artistes en Résidence, Clermont-Ferrand, France[8]. She exhibited both within the UK and internationally and is represented in significant public collections including Arts Council England; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Cnap, France; Colorado University Art Museum, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; FRAC MÈCA La Nouvelle Aquitaine, FRAC-Artothèque Limousin, FRAC Poitou-Charente; Pallant House, Chichester (Golder-Thompson Gift) ; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, USA; Southampton City Art Gallery; UK Government Art Collection as well as corporate and private collections[9][10]
The Jane Harris Foundation
The Jane Harris Foundation is managed by Freeny Yianni of Close ltd gallery[11], and gallerist Prue O’Day. Freeny Yianni first worked with the artist during the time she was with Lisson Gallery and has represented her since 2019. Prue O’Day supported Jane Harris after she graduated from Goldsmiths College with exhibitions at the Anderson O’Day Gallery[12], and became a lifelong family friend[13]. The Jane Harris estate is represented by Close and O’Day on behalf of Jiri Kratochvil and George Kratochvil.
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- ^ Sturgis, Daniel (2022-12-07). "Jane Harris obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ Sturgis, Daniel (2022-12-07). "Jane Harris obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "CV – Jane Harris". Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ Sturgis, Daniel (2022-12-07). "Jane Harris obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ Morley, Simon (June 1994). "Jane Harris at Anderson O'Day". Art Monthly. pp. 30–32. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ Wilson, Andrew (December 1996). "The Vision Thing". Art Monthly. pp. 7–9. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Arts Foundation | Harris, Jane". Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Jane Harris". Close Ltd. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Ellipse". Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Close Ltd". Close Ltd. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Anderson O'Day Fine Art, London | CAS". contemporaryartsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Jane Harris RIP 1956 - 2022". Close Ltd. Retrieved 2024-01-19.