Jane Giblin janegiblin.com

Jane Giblin's pre-adolescent perception was filled with the sclerophyll landscapes and vast rural lifestyles of the northwest of Tasmania and country New South Wales. She learned how the pragmatism of survival develops into highly protected farming traditions. She loves how these traditions bind families working in adversity but appreciates that these practices are counter-intuitive in this land. The human animal and its associated domestications populate Jane’s imagery. Dust and scratching dirt, glaucous green leaves, which cream and redden through the year, and the rich smells of life and death move through her fetid ink and pigments, marked and soaked onto her paper. 

2013 Master of Fine Art and Design, Printmaking, UTAS

2006 Master Fine Art and Design, Painting, UTAS

1984 Bachelor of Fine Art, UTAS

Solo Exhibitions

2020     I Shed My Skin, A Postscript, Colville Gallery, Hobart 

             I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Moonah Arts Centre, Glenorchy

2019     I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie

             I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston

             I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story Furneaux Museum, Emita, Flinders Island

2018     The Earth Muzzle, Colville Gallery, Hobart

2016 Dog's Belly, Colville Gallery, Hobart

2014 Rural Testimony, Colville Gallery, Hobart

2012 French Landscapes, Colville Gallery, Hobart

2009 Cerberus in the Land, Colville Gallery, Hobart

2008 Relic Colville Gallery, Hobart
Hill’s Edge Jane Giblin; Sue Henderson Burnie Regional Gallery

2007 Landscape Colville Street Art Gallery, Hobart

2005 Conversation with Landscape, Burnie Regional Gallery
Australian Landscapes On the Beach, Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Siberia

Selected Group Exhibition

2020        Our Own Path, Blenheim Gallery, TAS

                Ravenswood Australian Womens’ Art prize, Finalist, Sydney, NSW

2019        Kedumba Drawing Prize, Winner, NSW

                Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS

                Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist, Wyndham, VIC

2018      Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

             Members Show, Contemporary Art Tasmania, C.A.T., Hobart, TAS

             Glenorchy Open Art Exhibition, Glenorchy, TAS

 2017      Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

             Members Show, Contemporary Art Tasmania, C.A.T., Hobart, TAS

             Drawn from Life, Hobart College, TAS

              Drawn on the Body, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS

             Glenorchy Open Art Exhibition, Glenorchy, TAS

              Three Women, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2016 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

Burnie High 100, Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS

100 Years Burnie High School Celebration Exhibition, Burnie, TAS
Redland Art Award, Finalist, Cleveland, Q’LAND
Out of Control, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Blacktown City Art Prize, Overall Winner, Blacktown, NSW
Fisher's Ghost Award, Photography, Finalist, Campbell Town, NSW

2015 Annual Artists Show Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Kedumba Drawing Prize, Invitee, Finalist. Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Beyond The Classroom: Artwork by teachers, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Cossack Art Prize, Works on Paper, First prize Acquisitive, Karratha, WA

2014 Paddington Art Prize, Finalist, Sydney, NSW
Mancell Financial Group TasArt, Overall Winner, Burnie, TAS 
Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival, Gala Auction, Queenstown TAS

2013 Africa Safari, Depot Gallery, 2 Dank St, Sydney, NSW
Double Agency, Poimena Gallery Launceston, TAS
Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

Postgraduate Examination Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, TCotA, Hobart, TAS

2012 Annual Artists Show, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2011 Annual Artists Show Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2009 TMAG Art Foundation Auction – Emerging Tasmanian Artists, Hobart, TAS
Broken Hill Outback Art Award, Finalist, Broken Hill, NSW

Recent Acquisitions, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW

2008 3rd Anniversary Exhibition, Colville Gallery, Hobart, TAS

2007      Art Melbourne 07 Colville Gallery, Melbourne, VIC 
              The Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS
              Broken Hill Outback Art Award 2nd Prize, Acquisitive, Broken Hill, NSW

 2006     Student and teacher works, Tyumen State University, RUSSIA

              Flight 06, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy Gallery, L'ton, TAS

              50 Trees, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy Gallery, L'ton, TAS

              White Nights, International Biennale, St Petersburg, RUSSIA

2005 The Glover Prize, Finalist, Evandale, TAS

White Nights Painting show, First prize, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
Tasmania to Siberia Connection through Art, Irkutsk, RUSSIA

2004 Affordable Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, VIC

2003 Novosibirsk Internationale of Graphics, Winner, Digital Graphics, RUSSIA
The Works mass hang, Barbarella’s, Moonah Arts Centre, TAS

2002 Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Finalist, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW
Alice Prize, Finalist, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Off the Rack, Despard Gallery, Hobart, TAS
Fingering Glover, Long Gallery, Hobart, TAS
John Leslie Art Prize, Art Refers to the Environment, Finalist, Gippsland Regional Gallery, VIC

2001 Southern Island Art Exhibition, Stanley, TAS
City of Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist, Whyalla, SA
Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS
CAST Members Show, Hobart, TAS
Images of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS

2000 Hutchins Art Prize, Finalist, Hobart, TAS
Images of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
CAST Members Show, Hobart, TAS

Commissions and Awards

2019           Kedumba Drawing Award, Winner. (Acquired)

2018           Arts Tasmania, Artist Investment Program, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story

2017           Arts Tasmania, Artist Investment Program, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story 

                   RAF Major Community Grant, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story

                   TRAF, Quick Release Grant, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story

2016 Blacktown City Art prize, Winner. (Acquired)

2015 Cossack Art Prize, Works on paper, Winner. (Acquired)

2014 Mancell Financial Group TasArt, Winner. (Acquired)

2007 Broken Hill Outback Art Award 2nd Place. (Acquired)

Collections

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Kedumba Drawing Award
Blacktown City Art Gallery
Burnie Regional Gallery
Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Karratha's Cossack Gallery 

Bibliography

Giblin, Jane, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Forty South Publishing, June 2020, illus

Harper, Andrew, Island Character, The Mercury, TasWeekend, 21st March, 2020, illus

Harper, Andrew, The Mercury, TasWeekend, 25th January 2020, illus

Harper, Andrew, Getting Real, Imprint, The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia Inc, 2020, illus 

Art Almanac, Preview, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, May 2019, illus

Hay, Pete, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, December 2018, Catalogue, illus
Giblin, Jane, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Sharp Airlines Magazine, Spring 2018, illus
Art Collector, What’s On, The Earth Muzzle, April 2018, illus
Stephens, Andrew, Interview, The Print Council of Australia, The Earth Muzzle, April 27th 2018, illus
Giblin, Jane, The Furneaux Festival, I Shed My Skin, A Furneaux Islands Story, Sharp Airlines, Spring Edition, 2018, illus
Harper, Andrew, The Mercury, 6th August 2016, illus
Foster, Isabella, Jane Giblin, Dog’s Belly, Catalogue, 2016
Sargent, Aryelle, The Advocate 26 September 2014, illus.
Art Collector, What’s On, Rural Testimony, May 2014, Illus.
Selby, C, Relic The Mercury 22 March, 2008 illus
Andersch, J, Stirring Expositions, Tasmanian Landscapes, The Mercury 17 March, 2007
The Australian Financial Review May 16-18 2008 p. L6 Burnie illus.
Tasmanian Country 16 May Jane Sheds Light on Edgy Art p.5 illus.
Tasmania to Siberia, Catalogue, 2005 illus
Baguley, Dr, Margaret, Hill’s Edge, Jane Giblin’s Vision of the Landscape, Catalogue, 2007, illus
Jackson, Peter, Jane Giblin, A Conversation with Country, Catalogue, 2005, illus