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 projects include: 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.
For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Recent projects include: 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.
For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Jane Bustin, Commandant, 2019, acrylic, wood, copper, 57cm x 40cm
Jane Bustin, Warm Copper Blues, 2020, Copper, porcelain, muslin 30cm x 22cm
Jane Bustin, Poundland #1, 2021, Acrylic, chamois leather, tea, copper pins, 35 x 30 cm
Jane Bustin, Virginia’s Waves, 2022, Indigo sail cloth, stitching, crushed oyster shells, 20 x 14 cm, 7 cloths
Jane Bustin, Calcite, 2017, wood, gesso, acrylic, polyurethane, calcite, crystal, 50 x 42cm
Jane Bustin, Nude - January, 2022, Acrylic, wood, oyster shells, dyed silk, 50 x 40 cm
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Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (upcoming) 2024 The Book of Sleep, le sentiment des choses, Paris Pirelli, Let Me Count the Ways, Copperfield, London, UK 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 Frédéric de Goldschmidt 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 |