|
Jane Rose MA
Environmental Beach Litter Artist
Jane Rose is an island based artist with a passion for
beachcombing. She lived on the Isle of Tiree for nine
years and is now based on Colonsay.
The manmade beach litter assemblages she creates are her
personal response towards the large quantities of
detritus that she finds washed daily along the tideline
on the islands beautiful coasts.
|
Jane is fascinated by the variety of objects she
collects but horrified that so much ends up in
the sea causing harm to wildlife and pollution
of our seas not to mention the spoiling of the
beach environment. The purpose of her work is to
encourage the spectator to reflect upon these
issues and at the same time, hopefully, raise an
awareness of this problem.
These collections are also works of art and
very unique to a particular island location. The
artist has chosen these special pieces of litter
either for their visual qualities or their
associations with the people who have used or
worn them. The elements have left their mark and
Jane presents the objects unchanged, often with
bits of sand and seaweed still attached, in
unglazed frames made from recycled wood. |
|
 |
Born and
educated in Cheltenham Gloucestershire
MA Degree 2005 through De Montfort University Leicester.
Jane
had an Artists Residency in May 2006 at the An Tobar Art
Centre at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. She had an
exhibition of her recent work and took workshops in
local schools. The response from the children made her
appreciate just how important it is to teach people to
respect the environment, especially children whose
future will be affected by how we live today.
Jane’s future plans are to continue with her beach
litter research project and visit other Hebridean
islands. So far she has been to Islay and Jura where she
was generously funded by Hi-Arts with a Visual Artists
Award and GRAB (Group for Recycling in Argyll and Bute)
. She has also been to Gigha and Lismore and plans to
visit the Small Isles, Rum, Muck Eigg and Canna .
Another of Jane’s recent interests is street litter.
While on the mainland she created some new artworks and
exhibited them in the Gardens Gallery in Cheltenham.
|
