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Jane Cordery: Crossing the Line
4th June to 12th July 2019
Open evening 10th June 7-9pm
An R.A. exhibitor, Jane’s latest project literally walks a line between thread sculpture, painting and drawing. Exploring connections and disconnect within contemporary society, she hints at a tangible connection to something – landscape, form, memory – while simultaneously disconnecting time and place.
Crossing the Line
‘One eye sees, the other feels’ Paul Klee
Initially an abstract painter, Jane’s formative art primarily focussed on evoking a sense of the landscape where the line – diagonal, horizontal and vertical – dominated the perspective without needing to be representational.
Giving up her career in HR to undertake her B.A. in Fine Art, under the University of Kent, Jane’s artistic interests widened to incorporate her concern for the way in which our lives have become increasingly connected with the advance of technology yet also progressively disconnected, both socially and environmentally. Specifically, her work explores ways in which we communicate and intersect, the psychology of disconnection and the impact of contemporary life on both humans and environment. She acknowledges the significance of history, memory and the circularity of life.
In finding a visual language to express these concerns her art practice extended to sculpture, particularly working with fishing line, thread and glass, as well as a range of other media. In her current project, shown here at the Ripley Arts Centre, her line and thread work compounded her natural eye for the diagonal, vertical and horizontal. Evolving into a mass of overlapping lines in all directions – some broken or washed away – she aligns these with current trends in communication, points of connection, memory, intersect and disconnect.
Transferring this methodology back onto paper and canvas, the mass of drawn, threaded and sculpted lines becomes the primary point of view, sometimes almost obliterating anything else or existing within a seeming void. Yet in many works she hints at a tangible connection to something – landscape, colour, form, memory, history – while simultaneously disconnecting time and place. For Jane it is as much about what is not present as much as what is visible on the canvas; what we see and what we don’t.
Jane graduated in 2016 and exhibited at the R.A. Summer Show in the same year. She has exhibited widely within the South East, in group and solo shows, and her work is in private collections within the UK, Europe & Japan.