Jane Higginbottom
Artist Statement
The materials that an artwork is made from are very important to me. Where they come from, how they are used and what happens to them at the end of their life.
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More about the artist
Jane Higginbottoms work is about change in the environment and examining this through the process of making art. She is interested in place and time, specifically making work in relation to a particular site and currently fascinated by trees and the time span of their lives in relation to human history and investigating the heritage of gardening in South London, the plant collectors and gardeners that lived here.
Her work for the last year has been documenting and collecting plant material from her local Burgess Park – the route from home to studio – and using this to make work connected with plants and seasonal change and due to a studio move to Deptford is now changing to work about Deptford trees and parks.
She has been making a series of drawings of plants to document a year of change in the park and to create a visual alphabet of shapes and colours. She has also been making small sculptures using plant material sourced from the park such as ‘Dogwood red and green’.
She has been making hand made paper from plants in the shape of leaves – some containing tree seeds, Alder and Paper Birch – for the exhibition Way Marking at SteelRooms Gallery, Brigg. For this exhibition she made the works ‘Blowing in the Wind’, ’27 Leaves’ and ‘Tree Bags’.
In 2020 she was supposed to go to Northern Finland for a residency at KulttuuriKauppila. This has now been postponed until 2021.
She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, South London Women Artists and works locally with Art in the Park and Inspire.
Artist’s CV
Jane Higginbottom has made installations of seed bombs – for various exhibitions - MA final show Chelsea, Deptford X Fringe and Espacio Gallery Shoreditch as part of the South London Women Artist show ‘Piecework’.
In 2019 she was also part of the exhibition ‘Case for Place’ at SteelRooms Gallery, Brigg, Lincolnshire.
She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, South London Women Artists and works locally with Art in the Park and Inspire.
