Jane Grisewood Artist

Jane Grisewood is a New Zealand-born artist and part-time lecturer based in London who 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 she completed a practice-based PhD on drawing and the line in 2010. 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 a forthcoming artist residency in the observatories in southern Arizona.

Grisewood’s practice focuses on time and transience, dislocation and memory and much of her work involves repetition, movement and duration. While working across different media, drawing is key –drawing predicated on touch and derived from thought and memory as well as observation. She is interested in the shifts between visible and invisible, control and chance, stillness and movement. Drawing for her is a performative, open-ended process, whether in inside or outside spaces, where the line is a journey, a moving between.

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'.