Jane Lander

STITCHED UP: New works on paper

Exhibition dates: Wed 9 to Sat 26 May, 2007
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Some disasters have no warnings. Others are said to be a disaster waiting to happen.

In May 2006 I travelled down the Darling River from Bourke to Menindee Lakes.

What I saw was a catastrophe.

Petty squabbling and short sighted decisions by governments have cost the river its life and the livelihood of many.

The suite of drawings which make up ‘Stitched Up’ are a comment on the water crisis and its implications for the Murray Darling Basin.

This is something I have been exploring in a visual form for a number of years as are the images of ship hulls in Newcastle, their demise and reinvention in another form.

Born

Melbourne, Australia 1957

Education

Diploma of Fine Art, Warnambool Institute of Advanced
Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, Newcastle University
Diploma of Teaching (secondary), Newcastle University

Selected solo exhibitions

1986Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
1987Myall Lakes Series, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
1988Under the Weather, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
1991Landscapes, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1994Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1995Rocket Art, Newcastle
1996John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle
2000Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle
2002Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle
2003Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle
2005Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
2007Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

1982Women Artists of the Hunter Valley, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
1984Hunter Valley Printmakers, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
1989Six Women Artists, B.M.G, Sydney
1990Shifting Ground, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1992Prime Art Prize, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1993Backyard Jobs, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
1995Evolution, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
1998Steelworks, Newcastle University Gallery
2000Nick Mitzevitch Gallery, Newcastle
2001A Contemporary Perspective, Hunter Region
2002Ten Newcastle Artists, Depot Gallery, Dank Street, Sydney
2004Old Town, New City, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
2005Drawing Centre, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
2005Colour (less), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
2006Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill City Art Gallery
2006Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW

Awards and Prizes

1981 Maitland Tertiary Art Prize
1994 Singleton Drawing Prize
1997 Broken Hill Art Prize

Collections

Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
Maitland Art Gallery
Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Private collections around Australia