Jan Fieldsend

Jan Fieldsend completed a Master of Art at College of Fine Arts at UNSW (1995) and has exhibited in a various galleries in Australia and abroad. She was a member of Earthworks Poster Collective at the Tin Sheds during the 70’s and 80’s and as such all major galleries in Australia collected her work. The activities at the Tin Sheds are still to be critically analysed for their influence on Australian art. ABC, Radio National recently broadcast a programme on Hindsight (June, 2007) that starts to look at some of these influences.

Much of her work looks at the relationships between the past and the present and ideas about gender and space. Her teaching and research emphasize the relationships between seeing, making, materials and thinking and from this point how we may engage with thinking about culture. With the current fascination with the digital and virtual she examines what it means to still engage with the tactile and the handmade. Jan has recently completed a site-responsive installation work, outpouring, the University Art Gallery (aka War Memorial Gallery). This work, made of decorative crepe paper elements, functions as a cross between a chapel and a folly.

Jan is also the Director of the Tin Sheds Gallery, a contemporary art space that exhibits a wide range of art practices.

Please see Ms Jan Fieldsend homepage for more information.