Jane Giblin
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Jane Giblin's pre-adolescent perception was filled with the sclerophyll landscapes and vast rural lifestyles of the northwest of Tasmania and country New South Wales. She learned how the pragmatism of survival develops into highly protected farming traditions. She loves how these traditions bind families working in adversity but appreciates that these practices are counter-intuitive in this land. The human animal and its associated domestications populate Jane’s imagery. Dust and scratching dirt, glaucous green leaves, which cream and redden through the year, and the rich smells of life and death move through her fetid ink and pigments, marked and soaked onto her paper.
2013 Master of Fine Art and Design, Printmaking, UTAS
2006 Master Fine Art and Design, Painting, UTAS
1984 Bachelor of Fine Art, UTAS
Solo Exhibitions
2020 I Shed My Skin, A Postscript, Colville Gallery, Hobart
I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Moonah Arts Centre, Glenorchy
2019 I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie
I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story Furneaux Museum, Emita, Flinders Island
2018 The Earth Muzzle, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2016 Dog's Belly, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2014 Rural Testimony, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2012 French Landscapes, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2009 Cerberus in the Land, Colville Gallery, Hobart
2008 Relic Colville Gallery, Hobart
Hill’s Edge Jane Giblin; Sue Henderson Burnie Regional Gallery
2007 Landscape Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart
2005 Conversation with Landscape, Burnie Regional Gallery
Australian Landscapes On the Beach, Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Siberia
Selected Group Exhibition
2020 Our Own Path, Blenheim Gallery, TAS
Ravenswood Australian Womens’ Art prize, Finalist, Sydney, NSW
2019 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Winner, NSW
Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS
Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist, Wyndham, VIC
2018 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Members Show, Contemporary Art Tasmania, C.A.T., Hobart, TAS
Glenorchy Open Art Exhibition, Glenorchy, TAS
2017 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Members Show, Contemporary Art Tasmania, C.A.T., Hobart, TAS
Drawn from Life, Hobart College, TAS
Drawn on the Body, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Glenorchy Open Art Exhibition, Glenorchy, TAS
Three Women, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2016 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Burnie High 100, Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS
100 Years Burnie High School Celebration Exhibition, Burnie, TAS
Redland Art Award, Finalist, Cleveland, Q’LAND
Out of Control, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Blacktown City Art Prize, Overall Winner, Blacktown, NSW
Fisher's Ghost Award, Photography, Finalist, Campbell Town, NSW
2015 Annual Artists Show Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Invitee, Finalist. Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Beyond The Classroom: Artwork by teachers, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Cossack Art Prize, Works on Paper, First prize Acquisitive, Karratha, WA
2014 Paddington Art Prize, Finalist, Sydney, NSW
Mancell Financial Group TasArt, Overall Winner, Burnie, TAS
Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival, Gala Auction, Queenstown TAS
2013 Africa Safari, Depot Gallery, 2 Dank St, Sydney, NSW
Double Agency, Poimena Gallery Launceston, TAS
Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Postgraduate Examination Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, TCotA, Hobart, TAS
2012 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2011 Annual Artists Show Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2009 TMAG Art Foundation Auction – Emerging Tasmanian Artists, Hobart, TAS
Broken Hill Outback Art Award, Finalist, Broken Hill, NSW
Recent Acquisitions, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 3rd Anniversary Exhibition, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2007 Art Melbourne 07 Colville Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
The Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS
Broken Hill Outback Art Award 2nd Prize, Acquisitive, Broken Hill, NSW
2006 Student and teacher works, Tyumen State University, RUSSIA
Flight 06, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy Gallery, L'ton, TAS
50 Trees, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy Gallery, L'ton, TAS
White Nights, International Biennale, St Petersburg, RUSSIA
2005 The Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS
White Nights Painting show, First prize, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
Tasmania to Siberia Connection through Art, Irkutsk, RUSSIA
2004 Affordable Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Novosibirsk Internationale of Graphics, Winner, Digital Graphics, RUSSIA
The Works mass hang, Barbarella’s, Moonah Arts Centre, TAS
2002 Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Finalist, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW
Alice Prize, Finalist, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Off the Rack, Despard Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Fingering Glover, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
John Leslie Art Prize, Art Refers to the Environment, Finalist, Gippsland Regional Gallery, VIC
2001 Southern Island Art Exhibition, Stanley, TAS
City of Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist, Whyalla, SA
Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS
CAST Members Show, Hobart, TAS
Images of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2000 Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS
Images of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
CAST Members Show, Hobart, TAS
Commissions and Awards
2019 Kedumba Drawing Award, Winner. (Acquired)
2018 Arts Tasmania, Artist Investment Program, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story
2017 Arts Tasmania, Artist Investment Program, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story
RAF Major Community Grant, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story
TRAF, Quick Release Grant, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story
2016 Blacktown City Art prize, Winner. (Acquired)
2015 Cossack Art Prize, Works on paper, Winner. (Acquired)
2014 Mancell Financial Group TasArt, Winner. (Acquired)
2007 Broken Hill Outback Art Award 2nd Place. (Acquired)
Collections
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Kedumba Drawing Award
Blacktown City Art Gallery
Burnie Regional Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Karratha's Cossack Gallery
Bibliography
Giblin, Jane, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Forty South Publishing, June 2020, illus
Harper, Andrew, Island Character, The Mercury, TasWeekend, 21st March, 2020, illus
Harper, Andrew, The Mercury, TasWeekend, 25th January 2020, illus
Harper, Andrew, Getting Real, Imprint, The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia Inc, 2020, illus
Art Almanac, Preview, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, May 2019, illus
Hay, Pete, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, December 2018, Catalogue, illus
Giblin, Jane, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Sharp Airlines Magazine, Spring 2018, illus
Art Collector, What’s On, The Earth Muzzle, April 2018, illus
Stephens, Andrew, Interview, The Print Council of Australia, The Earth Muzzle, April 27th 2018, illus
Giblin, Jane, The Furneaux Festival, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Sharp Airlines, Spring Edition, 2018, illus
Harper, Andrew, The Mercury, 6th August 2016, illus
Foster, Isabella, Jane Giblin, Dog’s Belly, Catalogue, 2016
Sargent, Aryelle, The Advocate 26 September 2014, illus.
Art Collector, What’s On, Rural Testimony, May 2014, Illus.
Selby, C, Relic The Mercury 22 March, 2008 illus
Andersch, J, Stirring Expositions, Tasmanian Landscapes, The Mercury 17 March, 2007
The Australian Financial Review May 16-18 2008 p. L6 Burnie illus.
Tasmanian Country 16 May Jane Sheds Light on Edgy Art p.5 illus.
Tasmania to Siberia, Catalogue, 2005 illus
Baguley, Dr, Margaret, Hill’s Edge, Jane Giblin’s Vision of the Landscape, Catalogue, 2007, illus
Jackson, Peter, Jane Giblin, A Conversation with Country, Catalogue, 2005, illus