Jane Scobie
A multi-disciplinary installation artist whose work explores the fluid boundaries between the organic and inorganic, the human and the nonhuman. Research areas include biodiversity, extraction and ocean literacy. Her MA work explores the Strandline, a ‘living system’ as material, model and metaphor to understand our relationship with the ocean in the context of climate breakdown. Jane uses materials and processes with a low environmental impact and has a circular creative approach to design.
Solo shows
EDGELANDS (2022) Collaboration and landscape installation with Wild Ken Hill re-wilding and regenerative farm, West Norfolk, March 2022
Solitaire (2022) RAKE Collective online, April 2021
Walworth Skies (2020), Project Space, Hendon, March 2020
Awards and Commissions
(2024) Maison/0 This Earth Award shortlist, Ear of the Sea and Other Stories
(2024) NOVA Award Nominee Ear of the Sea and Other Stories
(2022) British Council Venice Biennale Steward-Research Fellowship, The Vindication Plates, Venice
(2019) Walworth Community Garden Network Commission for Chelsea Fringe, Walworth Sound Walk
Residencies
Joya: arte + ecologia / Air Water restoration and land art residency, 2024
Ground Work Gallery Extraction Residency, Norfolk, Summer 2023
Jaywick Social Practice Residency Essex, June 2023
Group shows
June 2024 - EDGELANDS (2022) We Are Nature, Garden of Tomorrow Festival, London
May 2024 - The Commons (2021) Groundwork Gallery @ Old Timber Yard, Bridport
April 2024 - KX and Joya Staff (2024) installation and procession, Holding Rain in the Headwater at Gas Holders Park Kings Cross,
April 2024 - Herb Rings (2024) Holding Rain in the Headwater, Bagley Walk, Kings Cross
April 2024 - Floating Lace (2024) performance, Regents Canal
March 2024 - Mask (2023) and Testimony (2024) Membranes, Hypha Studio
March 2024 - Strandline Deposition (2024), performance at Membranes Art and Science Symposium, Hypha Studio
February 2024 - Meta Nature (2024) Collaboration Archway Project Space
January 2024 - Tentacles (2023) and Strandline Deposition (2024) performance at Sideshow, Lethaby Gallery
November 2023 - Solitaire (2022) at Bill of Health, CSM Windows Gallery
September-December 2023- Mask, Hood, Helmet (2023) and Tentacles (2023), Ground Beneath our Feet, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn
August 2023 - Tide @ 11.41, (2023) Koppel Project Gallery, Hampstead
July-August 2023 - Holme Critters (2023) Ground Work Gallery, Kings Lynn
June 2023 - Earth Rights (2020), Amnesty International Show for 75 years of UNDHR, Italy
March 2023 - Interplanetary Ecology (2023) All things current are found, Trinity Buoy Wharf
September 2022 - The Vindication Plates (2022) Venice, Italy
June, 2022 - EDGELANDS (2022) Donne d'Arte, non da Parte, Italy
June, 2022- Public Wealth, Private Sufficiency (2020) Donne d'Arte, non da Parte, Italy
May 2022 - EDGELANDS (2022) Beyond the Line, Grove Building, Middlesex University
February-August 2022 - Walworth Skies (2020), In Air and Fire, Royal Airforce Museum
January 2022 - Solitaire (2022), Moment in the Ether, Nunnery Gallery
October 2021 - The Commons (2021) Blind Spot, October, Crypt Gallery
October 2021 - Principles of Public Life (2021), performance at Blind Spot, Crypt Gallery
April 2021 - Sea Henge (2021), A3x2, Nunnery Gallery
February 2020 - Public Wealth Private Sufficiency (2020) Islington Arts Factory
April 2019 - The List, Un-floatable Boats (2019), Grove Building, Middlesex University
April 2019 - Ghost of Sir John Soane (2019), performance and installation, Bow Church
April 2019 - Thorns and Roses (2018), performance, Schumacher College, Devon
May, 2018 - 7-Day Recycling (2018), Ruskin Gallery, Working Men’s College, Camden
Research
MA Art and Science Research Paper (2024) How could artists bring the nonhuman witness into discussions about the environmental crisis facing The Wash, Norfolk, UK. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
Curation
Good Work, 1995. Ceal Floyer, Darrell Viner and Chris Wainwright;
Do it Herself, 1996. Arts Council funded international exhibition for The British Council.
Founder Association of Newham Artists, 1987