Jane Gillings b. 1965

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Jane Gillings, born in 1965, is a Sydney artist who uses discarded plastic for assemblage art. She has also worked in print making, especially lino prints, painting, drawing and installation. Gillings works at Mission Australia as an art tutor for disadvantaged youths. Jane Gillings divides her time between teaching art at a Mission Australia youth art program, and making her own artwork. Her work is diverse and encompasses printmaking, painting, illustration and sculpture. More recently she has been exploring the concept of waste and has embraced her compulsion for hoarding to create works that resurrect discarded objects. Jane's work attempts to draw attention to the amount of waste that we produce as humans. By presenting it back to her audience as something beautiful, she hopes to make people more aware of what they are throwing away, and its potential for reuse.
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creator of
Snowy Owl
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Commission. Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Pete
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Scrap
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Patience
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Meat Tray
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Watermark
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URL
http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/nag/learning/artcart/hit_the_bottle_2009

Installation created in collaboration with Alison McDonald (along with volunteers) and displayed in Newcastle Region Art Gallery March 2009.

 
creator of
That was the man
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Found Feathered Friends
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URL
http://www.ngart.com.au/exhibition_gallery_21.html

A collection of life-sized replicas of birds created from discarded plastic, wire and hot melt glue.

 
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Plastic Planet
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Plastic sculpture

 
creator of
Vincent
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Plastic assemblage of Van Gogh self portrait.

 
creator of
Wreath
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URL
http://www.ngart.com.au/images/artists/gillings/bunches.pdf

This work was exhibited in Bondi Sculpture by the Sea, 2007.

 
creator of
Human Waste
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URL
http://www.ngart.com.au/images/artists/gillings/exhibition_popup_jg05.html

Created from discarded plastic, wire and hot-melt glue.

 
creator of
Arnolfini Marriage
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Plastic assemblage version of Jan Van Eyck’s classic painting of the same name.

 
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Straw Man
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Created from plastic drinking straws.

 
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American Plastic
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Plastic assemblage

 
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Steel
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Metal assemblage

 
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Saint Barbie
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Plastic assemblage

 
creator of
If not for you
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Used pill packets assemblage

 
creator of
Lines of days
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Plastic assemblage

 
creator of
Gotham
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Plastic assemblage piece created from black, white and grey discarded plastic.

 
creator of
Sea grass
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Acrylic on board

 
creator of
Powow
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Acrylic on board

 
creator of
Lotus 1
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Acrylic on board

 
creator of
Harvest
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Acrylic on board

 
creator of
Eight more words
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Acrylic on board

 
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