Artists

Lives and works in Melbourne

Jane Trengove has worked across several visual art media including painting, installation, collaborative works and the coordination/curation of visual arts projects since the 1980's. Jane employs her skills in painting to explore western cultural impacts on the human interface with the natural world and the social ordering of individuals. Trengove's works engage with complex political, aesthetic and social issues, drawing on a multitude of contentious issues such as the value of women's work, male dominance in modern art, the aftermath of colonising forces and the tensions between nature and culture. Trengove's practice clearly articulates the relevance of contemporary art in wider social and political debates. Jane have shown extensively both in Australia and overseas, exhibitions have included regular shows with Sutton Gallery, since 1995, other solo exhibitions include Field at Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, ACT in 2003; Slit in collaboration with Susan Long, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne in 2000 and Tender Buttons, curated by Juliana Engberg as part of Essential Fragments, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne in 1993. Trengove has been incorporated into numerous exhibitions such as A.R.C.O. International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain in 2002; No Worries;Mai Pen Rai, MUMA at Monash University, Melbourne, 2002; Exploratory Behaviour, Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (new acquisitions), National Gallery of Victoria in 1999; Body Suits, commissioned by Arts Access, National Touring Exhibition, 1998; Juice, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe, Level 2 Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997 and The Aberrant Object: Women Dada and Surrealism, curated by Juliana Engberg, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne in 1994.

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