About the work

The work is an unravelling of what takes place in the private space of the studio and the home. It explores the properties and arrangement of materials, extending the links between craft, concept and movement. The work is an exchange between the outer and inner worlds, poetics and play expressed through material matter.

Date and country of birth

1964, GB

About the artist

Born 1964 London, Jane Bustin lives and works in London. Graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic (1986); and Hertfordshire College of Art (1983).

Recognised as a painter, Bustin’s practice spans a decade of single works in painting and ceramic as well as installation, text, film and performance. She uses multiple materials and her work is based around the poetic language of painting, modernist literature, feminism and extending the links between craft, concept and movement.

Bustin’s work is held in public and private collections including  The Victoria and Albert Collection, London; Ferens Art Gallery and Museum, Hull; and Goldman Sachs, London.

Selected solo exhibitions include The Colour of Words, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (2020); Blindspot, Copperfield, London (2019); The Feeling of Things, Fox Jensen, Sydney (2019); Modern Domestics, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (2017); Fühler, Leslie Gallery, Berlin (2017); Rehearsal, Copperfield, London (2016); Anatole Notes, Testbed1, London (2012); and Unseen: A Collaboration with Tracy Chevalier and John Hull, The British Library, London (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Hazard Piccadilly Arcade/Frieze art Fair, Copperfield, London (2020); Olaph the Oxman curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto, Copperfield, London (2019); Art Basel Hong Kong, Fox Jensen, Hong Kong (2019); Sit – In, September Gallery, New York (2018); The Nijinsky Project, Artnight, London (2018); Combining Materials, Rosenfeld Porcini, London (2017); Ingredients, Methods, Serving Suggestion, APT Gallery, London (2016); Resistance and Persistence, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2015); ABJAD, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2015); More Materials curated by Duro Olowu, Salon 94, Bowery, New York (2014); and The Astonishing, where are you?’ with Lina Lapelyte, Austin Forum, London (2014).

Awards include the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award/Residency, Daugavpils (2019); Arts Council England (2006); London Arts Board (1996); and Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993).