Jane Bustin
Episode 5, Light in the night - The Day of the Triffids, 2020
Perspex cube, porcelain, oxides, glaze bowl, paper, watercolour and beetroot dyed burnt silk
20x20x20cm
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Jane Bustin, Episode 5, Light in the night - The Day of the Triffids, 2020
£ 3,000.00
b. 1964, UK; lives and works in London 1980-1983 Portsmouth University, BA Jane Bustin’s work comprises painting, ceramics, textiles, text and performance and is concerned with deconstructing the formal components...
b. 1964, UK; lives and works in London
1980-1983 Portsmouth University, BA
Jane Bustin’s work comprises painting, ceramics, textiles, text and performance and is
concerned with deconstructing the formal components of geometric abstraction and interweaving an emotional and more haptic response and narrative.
For Cure3, Episode 5, Light in the night - The Day of the Triffids is from a series of pieces shown in her 2019 solo show, 'Blindspot', at Copperfield London. These works evoke the style, themes and aesthetics of John Wyndham's 1951 book 'The Day of the Triffids'. This post-apocalyptic novel describes a world of 'desolation, suicide, blindness and political anarchy'. The unique combination of materials in the work (porcelain, oxides, glaze, Japanese paper, watercolour and beetroot dyed burnt silk) give the sculpture a collage-like ephemeral effect. The quiet, lyrical nature of the work presents us with an ambiguity which is in keeping with Bustin's project of challenging our faith in visual perception. Privileging touch over sight, the work remains, frustratingly, intangible, a quality enhanced by the barrier of the Perspex cube.
www.copperfieldgallery.com
www.janelombardgallery.com
www.jensengallery.com
Portrait courtesy the artist
1980-1983 Portsmouth University, BA
Jane Bustin’s work comprises painting, ceramics, textiles, text and performance and is
concerned with deconstructing the formal components of geometric abstraction and interweaving an emotional and more haptic response and narrative.
For Cure3, Episode 5, Light in the night - The Day of the Triffids is from a series of pieces shown in her 2019 solo show, 'Blindspot', at Copperfield London. These works evoke the style, themes and aesthetics of John Wyndham's 1951 book 'The Day of the Triffids'. This post-apocalyptic novel describes a world of 'desolation, suicide, blindness and political anarchy'. The unique combination of materials in the work (porcelain, oxides, glaze, Japanese paper, watercolour and beetroot dyed burnt silk) give the sculpture a collage-like ephemeral effect. The quiet, lyrical nature of the work presents us with an ambiguity which is in keeping with Bustin's project of challenging our faith in visual perception. Privileging touch over sight, the work remains, frustratingly, intangible, a quality enhanced by the barrier of the Perspex cube.
www.copperfieldgallery.com
www.janelombardgallery.com
www.jensengallery.com
Portrait courtesy the artist