Jane Andrews

Jane Andrews was born in Hammersmith, London , she now lives and works in Sussex. In 1994 she completed BA Hons in fine art at West Surrey College of Art and Design and in 2020 an MA fine art at University of Brighton. Her works can be found in Art UK in the Atkinson Art Collection and The Nicholas Treadwell Collection and in private collections worldwide. Andrews’ oil paintings and mixed media sculptures create personalised, adapted and distorted allegories using tragicomic mottos to explore, interpret and laugh at the complexities of life.

Solo Exhibitions

2022 ‘Red Herrings’ - Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro di Venezia, Venice

2010 ‘Station of The Skirt' - OXO Gallery, South Bank, London  ‘Jane Andrews’ Paintings', -Weekend Gallery, Hastings, Sussex

2007 'Jane Andrews, Paintings' - Weekend Gallery, Hastings, Sussex

2005 'Jane Andrews, Paintings', - The Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh City and District Council, Armagh, Ireland

2003 'Stunned in Pearls', - Inter Art Gallery, New York, USA

2002 'Jane Andrews' - Islington Arts Factory, London

1998 'Jane Andrews Paintings', - Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London

1997 'Jamboree', - Piano Nobile, London 

1996 'Jane Andrews Recent Paintings', - Sadlers Wells, London 

1995 'Jane Andrews Recent Paintings', - Sadlers Wells, London

Group Exhibitions

2024 None of the Above, Electro Studios, St.Leonards

2023 Society of Women Artists, The Mall Galleries, London A Chance for Happiness, London Mental Health Week, Indra Studios, Hackney Wick

2021 Representational Fantastic, Kirkland Arts Centre, USA Aberdeen Artists Society Online Summer Exhibition 2021 D31 Gallery, Summer Exhibition 2021, Doncaster ‘Memento Mori’ AIR Gallery, Cheshire ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2020 Society of Women Artists Annual Open 2020, online

2019 The Death of Art, Stash Gallery, London

2018 Nicholas Treadwell Collection, Vienna, Austria

2017 Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts Annual Open, Glasgow
Time Flies When Your Having Fun, Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Red, Platform Peer Group, The Grange, Rottingdean, Sussex
Women's Work, Nickolas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 Imprint Gallery, Cannon Beach, USA 
Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA

2016 East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne 
Art for Peace, European touring Exhibition - Atelier Gustave Gallery, Paris
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

2015 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

2014 Gothic Fiction and Dark Romantics - Brumfield Gallery, Idaho, USA
Bungeroosh Gallery, Brighton, Sussex 
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea - Gallery One

2013 Sweet'Art Summer Show - Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green, London 'Over The Hill and Don't Look Back' Jane Andrews paintings with Tim Andrews photographic project, Farley Farm Gallery, Chiddingly, Sussex

2010 'Five Decades of Fantastic', - Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, USA
’Metamorphosis', - Haselmere Museum, Surrey 'Jane Andrews Paintings & James Tisdale ceramics', - Basement Gallery, Idaho, USA

2009 'On The Bounce' – Turn-Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
'Sacred Art' - Lofthouse Gallery, Germany
‘Exhibition of Minatures' - Fantasmus Gallery, Saeby, Denmark

2008 'Art fair 2008' - Nice, France
Fantasmus, - Saeby, Denmark ‘Annual Cork Street Open Exhibition' - Cork Street Gallery – London

2007 'Life Cycles' - The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London

2006 'Landcapes of Imagination' - European Touring Exhibition 
'Une Fete sur Imagination' - H.R.Giger Museum and Art Gallery,  St. Germaine Castle, Gruyeres, Switzerland

2005 'Festival of Fantasy and Imagination' - Laudersdale House London
‘The Inner Eye' - European Touring Exhibition, Italy, Germany, Spain

2004 'Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair' - Islington, London  
‘Challenge the Nail' - Salon des Arts, London  
‘Sefton Open 2004' - The Atkinson Art Gallery, Liverpool

2003 'Art of Imagination' - Cork Street Gallery, London; Galleri Art, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Diego Victoria Gallery, Florida, USA   'Brave Destiny' - Williamsburg Art & Historical Centre, New York, USA  
'Florence Biennale' - Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy

2002 'Art of Imagination' - Cork St Gallery, London

2001 'Emerging Artists' - Limner Gallery, NY, USA   ' Art 2001' - Business Design Centre, Islington, London

2000 'Open Studios' - South East Arts  Exhibition of Paintings' - Fleart Gallery, London
'Art 2000' - Business Design Centre, Islington, London

1999 'Singular Thoughts' - Surrey Institute of Art and Design
'Group Exhibition' - Lamont Gallery, London   ‘Stirred Not Shaken' - Lamont Gallery, London

1998 'Art 98' - Islington, London  ‘Well Hot' - Well Hung Gallery, London  

1997 'Eight by Eight' - Pallant House, Chichester
‘No Turkeys' - Raw Gallery, London

1996 'LS Lowry Seascapes and Barren Landscapes and Jane Andrews Recent Paintings' Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

1994 'Fresh Art' - Business Design Centre, Islington, London  'Town Painting' - Andernach, Germany

Prizes and Awards

2022 Parrot Fine Art, exhibition prize

2017 Exhibition Prize, British Women's Artists

2003 Symbolist Show Prize

2002 Lukas Painting Prize

2001 Emerging Artist Award 2001, Limner Gallery NY USA

1994 Shortlist, Space Award, Fresh Art,

1994 BA fine Art, WSCAD, Farnham - 2020 MA fine Art, Brighton

Book Covers

1998 ‘Translations From The Human’. Ivor C Treby

2000 ‘Awarenes Of The Sea’. Ivor C Treby

2004 ‘Circus of The Grand Design’. Robert Freeman Wrexler

2007 ‘Blanche’s Last Fling’. Ivor C Treby

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“My work plays with character, identity and survival strategies in my attempt to understand, interpret and laugh at the complexities of life. The paintings evolve organically; I approach each composition as a conversation between myself and the viewer, using symbolism, both established and personal and narratives without definitive beginnings or endings. I look for humour to subvert and the ridiculous in the heroic.”

Jane Andrews

“Surreal games and dark otherworldly visions from Jane Andrews, who purloins images of the everyday, skews them with disturbing social resonance and peoples them with grotesques and itinerants. Station of The Skirt is her latest body of work, a series of 12 paintings executed over a two-year period, using the skirt, with it's intimations of domestic restriction, as a starting point”.

The Independent, The Information, 27th February - 10th March 2010

"The tableaux that Jane produces are not the beginning or end of a story. A great deal has already happened to lead to the situation that is revealed to us, and clearly the struggle for survival will continue after we have departed. Jane has found her own distinctive style. she paints with a sensitivity and creative vigour that immediately captivates her audience. Her compositions positively hum with spirited personality and, exceptionally amongst her peers, she is able to create paintings that take on on a distinct and disturbing life all of their own ".

David Coke, historian, director of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. 1997

Looking at Jane Andrews's work 'Two Steps Back' and other paintings from her compelling body of work 'Station of the Skirt', I was immediately struck with nuances of artists as diverse as Carrington, Rego and Goya. To be honest, I didn't know anything about Andrews's work, yet I was intrigued to know more. So, I suppose it is not surprising that Andrews has made the BWA shortlist before. Her distinctive work is consistent, beguiling and accomplished. The recurring motif of a full, black skirt, is Andrews's metaphor for the straightjacket of the institutionalized female. The skirt is both full and black, both permissive and restrictive, its severe black, billowing folds do not offer the practical freedoms of a pair of trousers, but at the same time, its swathes of fabric conceal and hide. Evocative of fairytale, mystery, and the dark arts of the witch or crone, the black skirt resonates with all the stereotypes that demonize the feminine, those that in the west at least, have become normalized. Yet in Andrews's paintings, there are no flimsy misogynistic overtones of 'a bit of skirt', instead the garment and the wearer take on a sculptural and timeless monumentality.

Chiara Williams. Director WW Gallery, London. 2014