Who am I

My story……

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Shadows to Petals, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2005 Temporal Warmth, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2003 Bridging Spaces, Florence Street, Melbourne

2001 Escapes, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane

1999 Pausespace, West Space, Melbourne

1997 Reflection Shadow, Platform, Melbourne

1995 Mono-Replicata, West Space, Melbourne

1995 Jane Hall – Monoprints, Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW

1991 Jane Hall Mixed Media Prints, Gallery Beni, Kyoto, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2008 Dark Luminance, Gallery Sakiko, Chelsea and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn New York, USA

2008 It must be Love, MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2005 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery

2005 One Square Foot, MARS Gallery

2002 Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

2001 Group Exhibition, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane

2000 Gallery Artists Group Show, Kilcaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne

1988 Site of Execution: 28 Artists, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

1997 Kontempora, Kilcaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne

1996-’97 12th Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

1996 Rumble, CCP, Melbourne

1996 Swan Street Spectacle, Kamikaze, Swan Street, Richmond, Melbourne

1995 Black and White, Gilchrist Galleries, Brisbane

1994 Artists & Children & Endangered Animals, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

1994 The OutWest Show, West Space, Melbourne

1992 Animal Land, Exhibition touring Finland shown at the following venues, Kuopio Art Museum, lisalmi City Gallery, Annantalo Cultural Centre (Helsinki, Jyaskyla City Exhibition Hall, Hyvinkaa Art Centre, Ilmajoki Cultural Centre

1992 Perspectives from Japan: Nine Printmakers, Extension Gallery, Toronto (Funded by the Print and Drawing Council of Canada)

1992 The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper – Visiting Artists’ Exhibition, Hongo Gallery, Tokushima, Japan

1991 Kyoto Rakugo Selected Show, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

1991 Exposition – Kyoto Independents, Kyoto Municipal Museum of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

1991 Group Print Show, Heian Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1991 Print Exchange, Seoul University Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1991 Kinoprint, Gallery Beni, Kyoto, Japan

1991 Group Print Show, Willoughby Workshop, Sydney

Study and Travel

New York,(Exhibitionx2) Paris, Kyoto 2008

2 years research into printing and paper making, Monbusho Student-Seika University Kyoto Japan

Papermaking research, Italy, Nepal, Thailand. 1993

Cuba(Taller Grafica Havana),Mexico & Japan 2004

Bachelor of Fine Arts, S.C.A, Sydney University

Grad Dip TESOL, Monash University, Melbourne

Diploma of Teaching, NSW

Awards/Scholarships

Exhibition Support Grant, Print and Drawing Council of Canada 1992

Monbusho Scholarship for Study and Research, Awarded by the Minister for Education, Government of Japan 1989-91

Award Prize, Rakugo, L.C. Kyoto, Japan 91

Residencies

1996/7 Haileybury Secondary College, Melbourne

1996/7 Penleigh Essendon Grammar School, Melbourne

1996/7 Monterey Secondary College, Melbourne

1994 Creative Arts Department, Wollongong University

Commissions

Optus, Brisbane

Asahi Kinzoku Co., Gifu, Japan: 3 handmade paper screens, 43 artworks for the interior, 250 editorial prints (1992-93)

Collections

Artbank, Sydney

University of Queensland, Brisbane

Wollongong University, NSW

Smorgon Collection, Melbourne

Optus Collection, Brisbane

The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Gallery Collection, Tokushima, Japan

Asahi Kinzoku Co., Gifu, Japan

Private Collections in Japan, Germany, Australia

Bibliography

2008 The Age, The Art of Trauma, The Critics, Andrew Stephens Jan 12 “…purity captured in lozenges of colour”
Chelsea Clinton News. Aug 09 Classicism meets Modernity in Chelsea. NY, USA
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. NY Aug 21 Dark Luminance

2007 The Age, Sightlines, Paper Delivers (Penny Webb) April 6. “ It’s quietly spectacular work.”
April 4 “Overlapping shapes & colours an emotional response”

2007 Herald Sun ‘Role Model’ April 13

2005 The Age Dec 19th “Hall’s delicate monoprint book…”

1995 ABC Radio, Wollongong, NSW, ArtToday, 4 May

1995 Brown, Phil, True Simplicity: Jane Hall distills her images down to their aesthetic essence, Brisbane News, March

1992 Savon Sangmat (Finnish Newspaper), Art Review, Jan 4