Jane Ward.
2004-2007 MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London
1997-1998 MA Fine Art, UCE
1979-1982 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Coventry University
Jane's meticulously constructed works employ digital photographs which have been repeatedly broken down and collaged, creating images of imaginary, fragmentary, and transient land/cityscapes. Printed onto canvas, the ink is dissolved and manipulated by hand, leaving traces of earlier forms and injecting the works with a sense of memory and the passage of time. These cityscapes, villages, rural and industrial settings are both familiar and disturbing as they allude to the cycles of destruction and regeneration witnessed in our everyday surroundings.