Jayne Smith
Jayne Smith
Jayne Smith

Statement

Situated between consciousness and dream, the scenes of petrified marginal spaces are colonized by concrete architectural fabrications of a contemporary world. Uninhabited ruins that bear silent witness to our failures and repressed memories. An image of the future, not the past, the walls question their destiny. They are monuments to the repeated loss of self, of memory and oblivion and can be read as a sublime force in themselves.
Before this immense space the displaced characters are lost and small. They convey a sense of stillness, alienation and of waiting for something. Promised the sublime through a manufactured, false beauty, they search for the ‘hidden essence’ within their own sensitivity.

My works focus on the paused moment, the instinctive space where something is desired or utopia is being sought as an antidote to the restraints placed upon them from the ‘laws’ of a contemporary world which upholds the best ethical standpoint possible in an imperfect world. To follow Hans Blumenberg in asking the questions: What was it we might have hoped? What was the world we thought we could have?

CV

Born 1958 in New Cross, London.
Lived and worked in London and Kent for 40+ years before relocating to Cornwall, 2005.
Graduated from Falmouth 2009 with BA Hons Fine Art
Currently works from her studio near Penzance.

Exhibitions and events

2010
Upcoming:
December 11th to 17th. Artist-led group show ‘Silent signals’, Crypt Gallery, St.Ives

Past
October 29th to 13th November. Selected for 2010 National Open Art Competition Chichester.
October 17th to 30th  NSA show, Treriefe, Penzance
October 7th to 30th. Shortlisted for Salon 2010, Vyner street, London
October 5th to 9th.  Selected for A4 Printmakers Competition, Open Space gallery, Penryn, Cornwall.
September 2nd to 18th. Selected for Threadneedle Prize, Mall Gallery
June. Selected for FringeMK painting competition.
June 12th. ART75, Jubilee Pool, Penzance
May. Elected as associate member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
14th May until 11th June. ‘After The End’ group show, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
30th March until 8th April. ‘A strange Country’ artist-led group exhibition, PZ Gallery, Penzance.

2009
6th November. Selected for National Open Competition Chichester.
9th October until 1st November. Selected for Pushing Print Open Print Competition.
The Pie Factory, Margate, Kent.
2nd October until 31st October. Selected for The Plough Arts Centre Open Drawing Competition, Great Torrington, Devon.
12th September until 25th September Square Deal Show, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives.
8th August until 4th September. St.Ives Society summer show II.
16th June until 20th June. Degree show, Falmouth University College, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth.
6th June until 4th August. St. Ives Society members summer show.
7th March until 25th April. St. Ives Society members spring show.

2008
November. Elected as member of St. Ives society of Artists
September. The St. Ives Society Open Exhibition.
7th June until 4th July. ‘Add balance to the equation’ – group exhibition at: The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Western-Super-Mare.
24th May until 1st June. Open Studio event.
17th April until 3rd May. Group exhibition at: The Boundary Gallery, London. Awarded 2nd prize in The Boundary Gallery Prize for Figurative Art.
7th April until 12th April. Solo exhibition of paintings at: The Poly, Falmouth.

2007
September. St.Ives Open exhibition.
May. Open Studio event.