Bio & Curriculum Vitae

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Through her work, Jane seeks to visualise how we fit together as individuals, as a community, within our surroundings and with God: a process she refers to as Mapping Wholeness. From present day local surroundings to challenging and inspiring years lived overseas, Jane explores her own and others lived-experiences of this journey. A visualisation is developed reflectively though community connection, meditation, sketching, photographing and writing. Her work finds light in our weighty, negotiated identity stories, carrying and weaving journeying, roots, faith, displacement and belonging. Jane’s work includes installation, 2D and wearable art; décor design, teaching and writing. She is largely self-taught and her art making is a sensory journey through interdisciplinary processes of research, medium, techniques and construction. For enquiries please contact Jane on info@janehdee.com or via Contact on the Homepage. 

I refer to my work as mapping wholeness, visually exploring how we fit together as individuals, as a community, within our surroundings and in partnership with God. My process is immersive as I explore identity stories and community narrative; and submerge myself in my surroundings and a community of faith. To this end, my creative process refers implicitly to Bourriauds Relational Art, with interaction, iteration and meditation being as significant in my art making journey as the final body of work. 

As part of this reflective process I spend much time sketching, photographing and journaling to capture the journey of our shared spaces. The art that results engages with the complexities of displacement and belonging, faith, journeying and rootedness in the everyday, particularly when another's normal is so very different to our own, allowing the tension and vibrancy of difference to co-exist. Each piece is a unique visual commentary evoking reflection, memories and felt responses as we consider self within our own contexts and imagine others in theirs. 

I am largely self-taught as I seek to visualise the mapping wholeness journey through installation, 2D and wearable art; and through various making techniques and mixed media, according to my research focus. These include paint, collage, textiles, wrought iron and ceramics, video and audio, portraits in chalk pastel and oil on charred wood, literal and stylized weaving, workshops and discussion events. 

2023 European Scots, The Gallery, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon

2023 Cowal Open Studio, Dunoon

2023 The Barony Centre, West Kilbride

2022 The Gallery, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon

2019 Paolozzi Gallery, John McIntosh Arts Centre, London.

2018 Annual Art Exhibition, London Oratory School, London.

2017 Open Studio exhibition, St Katherines Precinct, London

2016 The Real Story: East End Women’s Collective, St George in the East, Wapping. London. Bangla Blocks

2016 Tati – Emerging Bengali Textiles and Fashion. RichMix, London

2015 Intergalactic Desh collaboration with Saif Osmani and Noemi Zajzon. RichMix, London. 

2014 Stick ‘Em Up Husk Gallery, London. 

2013 A Shared Identity of Difference (Solo) Husk Gallery, London.

2013 Q. MA Degree Show, The Lethaby Gallery, London.

2013  Oitij-jo Bengali Festival – Akhon , co-designer, co-curator, installation supervisor. Oxo Wharf, Bargehouse London, 

2013 Alchemy Festival, Southbank, London. Oitij-jo fashion installation.

2010 Omnipresent (Solo) The Old Day Hospital, Wellington, South Africa 

2010 Art at Frater Square, Paarl, South Africa 

2022 - Present, Visual Artist and Creative Practitioner

2018 – 2021 Art Centre Manager / Theatre & Art Technician, The London Oratory School, London.

2015– 2016  Art Workshop volunteer for the Fitzrovia Centre, London.

2015 – present Founder / Trainer: The Sewing Tutor, London.

2014  Costumier, Stance Theatre Company at Riverside Studios, London

2011 – 2015  Craft coordinator for Arch76 Charity, London.

2005 – 2015 Co-Founder and Creative Director, Arabesque Gallery, South Africa

2004 Educator in Set Design & Construction. Collaboration: IBRA Media & Bethlehem Bible School

2000 – 2004 Creative Director; Set Department Head; Vocational Trainer, Seven Stars, Egypt

2001 Costume Designer, American University in Cairo, Egypt

2000 Costume Designer, American University in Cairo, Egypt

1994 – 1995 Costume Maker and Costumier, Angels The Costumiers, London.

1993 Costume Maker, The York Playhouse, followed by The Costume Department, York 

Education includes:

MA: Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 2013 

Arabic: Egyptian written and spoken. The British Council, (continued with private lessons), Egypt, 2000 

BA (Hons): Costume Design Interpretation, Wimbledon College of Art, 1993