Jane Grisewood Artist

Jane Grisewood, New Zealand-born artist and part-time lecturer/tutor based in London, worked for many years as a children’s book editor and publishing director in London and New York before returning to university to study art. After graduating with first class honours, she gained her Masters at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where in 2010 she completed a practice-based PhD on time, memory and drawing. She has received several awards, including two from the Arts Council, and participated in a wide range of exhibitions, residencies and collaborations in the UK and abroad. Recent work includes exhibitions in London and New York, performances in Lisbon and Vancouver, and artist residencies in the observatories at Kitt Peak, USA and Cerro Tololo, Chile.

Grisewood’s practice focuses on time and transience, dislocation and memory and much of her work involves repetition, movement and duration. In her conceptual explorations of time she works with shifts and boundaries between scale, visibility, dark and light, control and chance, inspiring her fascination with the temporal dimension and liminality of space, and the catalyst behind recent art/science collaborations. While working across media, from performance to books, and through a range of processes, drawing is where it starts, whether in inside or outside spaces. For Grisewood, drawing can be with graphite or a camera, and is derived from thought and memory as well as observation – a performative, open-ended process – a moving between. JG 2013

Katharine Stout, a curator at Tate Britain and associate director of The Drawing Room in London, writes that Grisewood 'investigates the in-between spaces, recording through drawings, notes or photographs interventions that capture a moment in time whilst simultaneously tracing its passing'. Identifying her practice of marking time: 'Yet beyond the process-driven undertaking, these works offer a beautiful abstract landscape of sorts, a geological mapping of a moment'.