Jane Burden
Combined ceramic and textile
By combining smoke-fired, hand-built ceramics, pressed porcelain casts and colourful textile threads, Jane Burden produces highly crafted, reflective work that connects to themes of ancient landscape, social history and human emotion. A recent project, the cathartic Tangled Threads series, explores on a number of different levels the tensions between calm and chaos, order and confusion. Considered use of materials and techniques bring together beautifully hand-cut and burnished thread ‘cards’, which are individually stamped, smoke-fired and wrapped in dyed yarns. The careful arrangements of smoke tones and subtle coloured threads allow for powerful communication through a unique medium. She works from her studio in West Dorset where she is connected to land and sea, is an active member of the Dorset Makers group; won the Ilminster Open prize and has a permanent piece installed at Dorset County Hospital. A long standing member of Dorset Visual Arts and Wessex Contemporary Artists, she exhibits regularly. Previous shows include: Contemporary Textiles Gallery, London; Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge; Wysing Arts, Cambs; The Study Gallery, Poole; Sherborne House; Durleston Park & Walford Mill, Dorset; Dorset County Museum.
- Phone: 07877612031
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- Website: janeburden.co.uk