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Jane Bustin
 
b.1964, London, UK.
Lives and works in London, UK.


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Through a minimal, concept lead practice that combines traditional techniques with a wide variety of contemporary and historic materials and supports, including aluminium, wood, copper, silk, paper, latex, gesso, ceramics and ready-made objects, Bustin’s paintings are initiated following intense periods of research or collaboration. The work explores the metaphysical potential for painting to 'make visual' philosophical concepts found primarily in literature, as well as music, science, dance and theology. They are presented within the formal constraints of abstraction but subvert this tradition; while not representational in the traditional sense, each decision in making the work is conceptually justified in relation to a particular subject. While minimal in style the works are intensely personal in subject, flying in the face of the masculine dogma of modernist Minimalism. Jane Bustin studied at Portsmouth Polytechnic and lives and works in London.

Recent and upcoming projects include: Pirelli, let me count the ways at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (current); the Rothko Museum (Latvia), Drawing Biennale 2024, The Drawing Room (London), and the solo Pirelli, let me count the ways at Copperfield (London). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery (London), The British Library (London), Jane Lombard (New York), Fox Jensen (Sydney).

Her work is part of collections internationally, including the Ferens Museum & Gallery, Hull (UK), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Goldman Sachs Collection, and Yale Center for British Art, USA. Recent acquisitions include the Rothko Museum and the collection of Frédéric de Goldschmidt.  
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For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
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For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.

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Jane Bustin, Commandant, 2019, acrylic, wood, copper, 57cm x 40cm
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Jane Bustin, Warm Copper Blues, 2020, Copper, porcelain, muslin 30cm x 22cm
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Jane Bustin, Poundland #1, 2021, Acrylic, chamois leather, tea, copper pins, 35 x 30 cm
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Jane Bustin, Virginia’s Waves, 2022, Indigo sail cloth, stitching, crushed oyster shells, 20 x 14 cm, 7 cloths
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Jane Bustin, Calcite, 2017, wood, gesso, acrylic, polyurethane, calcite, crystal, 50 x 42cm
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Jane Bustin, Nude - January, 2022, Acrylic, wood, oyster shells, dyed silk, 50 x 40 cm

Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025

Pirelli, Let Me Count the Ways - Part II, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (current)
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2024
The Book of Sleep, le sentiment des choses, Paris 
Pirelli, Let Me Count the Ways, Copperfield, London, UK
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2023
Pirelli, Let Me Count the Ways, Copperfield, London, UK 
Jane Bustin/Anne Lindberg: Of Waves at September Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, USA
The Colour of Words - Part III, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
 
2022
Après Mallarmé, Le petit pan de jaune, le sentiment des choses, Paris 
 
2021

This woman’s work, Fox Jensen McCory,Auckland
Le petit pan de jaune, le sentiment des choses, Paris
The Colour of Words II, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
 
2020

The Colour of Words, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA
 
2019
Blindspot, Copperfield, London, UK
V, le sentiment des choses, Paris
The Feeling of Things, Fox Jensen, Sydney, Australia
 
2017    
Modern Domestics, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA
Fühler, Leslie Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
2016
Rehearsal, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2014
The Astonishing, Austin Forum, London, UK 
 
2012         
Anatole Notes, Testbed1, London, UK
 
2009
Unseen: A Collaboration with Tracy Chevalier and John Hull, The British Library, London, UK
 
2008
Paintings 1998-2008, Artprojx Space, London, UK

2005
Time Share, with Alexis Harding, Eagle Gallery, London

2004

Violet and the War, Eagle Gallery, London

2000
Atemwende (Breathturn), Eagle Gallery, London, UK
 
1998
Nameless Grace, Eagle Gallery, London 


Group Exhibitions
2024

Drawing Biennial 2024, The Drawing Room, London, UK

2023
No One’s Rose, Fox Jensen McCrory, New Zealand
​TERRITORY OF ONESELF, Zembla Gallery, Hawick, Scotland

One Foot in the Sky, curated by Jen Ellis, Contemporary Sculpture at Fulmer WORKABLE, Huidenclub, Rotterdam
Ballroom Project, Antwerp 


2022
Looking through the window wearing only socks - curated by Francesco Giaveri, L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
​Fundamenteel, Cultuurcentrum de Werft, Geel, Belgium 


2021
Not Painting, Copperfield, London
Raven, Fox Jensen Sydney & Fox Jensen McCrory,Auckland

Aora III,Aora Space, Online
 
2019
Olaph the Oxman curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto, Copperfield, London, UK
Considered Place, Drum Castle National Trust, Aberdeen, Scotland
Art Basel Hong Kong, Fox Jensen, Hong Kong
 
2018
XS, FoxJensenMcCory, Auckland, New Zealand
Sit – In, September Gallery, New York, USA
Combining Materials, Rosenfeld Porcini, London, UK
 
2016
Left to Right, Copperfield, London, UK
Imperfect Reverse, Camberwell Space Projects, London 
 
2015
Resistance and Persistence, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
ABJAD, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
 
2014
More Material, Salon 94, New York, USA
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Show Off, London, UK
A Little Patch Of Yellow Wall..., Curated by Jane Bustin, Lion And Lamb, London, UK
 
2013
Mud, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize Selected by Michael Craig-Martin, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK 
Mostyn Open Prize selected by Ryan Gander, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
 
2012
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery London, Hastings and MAC, Birmingham, UK
RA Summer Show Selected by Tess Jaray, London (2012)
Back and Forth, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
 
2011
Will Alsop’s A Few Friends, Testbed 1, London, UK
 
2009
Creekside Open, London, UK
 
2008
Figuring Light: Colour and the Intangible, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
 
2007
Darkness Visible, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
 
2006
Darkness Visible, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
 
2005
iD, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
 

Collections
The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Collection, London, UK
Ferens Art Gallery and Museum, Hull, UK
Goldman Sachs, London, UK
Yale Center for British Art, USA 
Rothko Museum, Latvia
Unilever
Chelsea College of Art & Design
United Overseas
DLA Piper
British Land
Louise Clark Collection
Cloud Seven Collection


Performances
2022
The Nijinsky project - Faun, Zabludowicz Collection in collaboration with Maria Lassnig

2021
Nameless Grace, Daata Film Programme, New World Symphony, SoundScape Park, Miami Beach

In darkness let me dwell, in collaboration with John Woolrich, Folkestone Fringe Festival

2018
The Nijinsky project - Faun,Art Night London at Marriott, London County Hall, South Bank

2014
​The Astonishing with
‘Where are You?’
by Lina Lapelyte at Austin Forum, London

2000
Hoxton New Music Days/ Almeida Opera commission with Deirdre Gribben & Matthew Barley, Hoxton Hall
 


 
Awards
2019
The Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award/Residency, Daugavpils, Latvia
 
2006
Arts Council England
 
1996
London Arts Board
 
1993
Pollock-Krasner Foundation​