Born in Brisbane in 1966, Jane Burton was living and working in Melbourne in 2008. In 1991, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, and in 1993, was awarded an Honorary Research Associate, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart.
Burton’s solo exhibitions since this time include Wormwood at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2007); I did it for you , Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2005); Available Light , Dickerson Gallery, Sydney (2004); The Fall , Bett Gallery, Hobart (2004) and The Other Side , Dickerson Gallery, Sydney (2003).
Burton has also participated in several important group exhibitions including: City of Hobart Art Prize , Carnegie Gallery, Hobart (2007); Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize , Monash Gallery of Art, VIC (2006); Anxious Bodies , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2003); and Moral Hallucination: Channeling Hitchcock , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2000).
Among her various awards and achievements, Burton has been the recipient of a London Studio Residency , Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council (2005); an Arts Development Grant , Arts Victoria (2003); and the Lloyd Rees Travelling Scholarship (1993) which enabled her to undertake a four-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia, as well as major public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart and Artbank.
- Writers:
- Woodbury, Karen
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
