CV of Jane Richens Tabbil Forest Bingleburra NSW, Australia Jane has a rural property in the Hunter Valley – Tabbil Forest – where she organises events, teaches and pursues creative endeavours. Her creative work includes print and mixed media, painting, photography, felting and working with textiles. She began as a practicing visual artist in 1984 and has since been involved in the areas of design, visual arts education and administration and English language education. For 7 years Jane taught graphic design at universities in Sydney and Singapore. Many of her workshops have explored a range of visual research strategies and design processes within an arts & design context and in particular through the form of the book. Tabbil Forest Tabbil Forest is a 680acre property on a range that comes out from the Barrington Tops Wilderness Area. It contains a 200acre rainforest, grazing country, wooded areas, an organic garden and historic hut. Training CELTA – Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, Australian TESOL Training Centre, Sydney, 2004 Botanical Illustration, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, 2004 Digital Pre-press, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, 1996 Bachelor of Arts, Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 1994 Teaching Altered Images, individual arts workshops, Catbird Gallery, Dungog Visual design lecturer & tutor, 1998-2004 – School of Communication, Design & Media, UWS University of Western Sydney NAFA Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore School of Design Studies, College of Fine Arts, UNSW University of New South Wales English language teacher, Sydney 2005-06 – Holmes College, acl (Australian Centre for Language) Design and production Partner is the design business RICHENS & DOHERTY, 1994-2008 Graphic design, digital artwork, print management of catalogues, magazines, corporate id and websites. Clients include: Shapiro Art Auctioneers, Universal Magazines, Dinosaur Designs, Horwath Asia Pacific, Australian Multimedia Enterprise, Australian Film Commission, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Sydney, Corban and Blair Also worked in the area of design and production for a number of design companies and cultural organisations in Sydney MaDHouse Design, Powerhouse Museum, Museum of Sydney, Art Almanac Arts administration/professional positions Artist co-ordinator, NAVA National Association for the Visual Arts, Sydney, 1993 Partner in an arts administration and graphic design business SENSIBLE ART SERVICES, Sydney 1989-92 Arts administrator, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Sydney, 1989-90 Arts administration, INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, Brisbane, 1988-89 Sculpture conservator, WORLD EXPO 88, Brisbane, 1988 Arts administration and magazine production, EYELINE MAGAZINE, Brisbane, 1987-89 QUEENSLAND ARTWORKERS ALLIANCE, Secretary (chair) & committee member, 1986-9 THAT CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, Studio & gallery member, 1986-7 Visual art projects Practicing visual artist exhibiting at a number of galleries and arts spaces since 1986 Exhibited in individual and group exhibitions at: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; First Draft, Sydney; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Milburn + Arte, Brisbane; AFI Cinema, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane; Centre Gallery, Gold Coast; THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, Catbird Gallery Dungog Selection of early exhibitions PORTRAITS OF, Below Zero, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1992 FRAMES OF REFERENCE, Dissonance, Artspace/Wharf, Sydney, 1991 SCANNING THE CODE, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1990 SIN (Nude with Red Hair), Milburn + Arte, Brisbane and, Bureau, Brisbane, 1989 INTERFACE, Queensland Bicentennial Art Spaces Project, Brisbane, 1998 7 IS IN HEAVEN, THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, 1987 Performance with Eugene Carchesio, WEAR BLACK, WEAR WHITE, John Mills National, Brisbane, 1987 MASKS, Observatory, Brisbane, 1985 Bibliography Ross, Toni, ‘Portrait of the Artist as Photocopier: Jane Richens’, Electronic Arts in Australia: Continuum, Vol 8, No 1, 1994 Seward, Angela, ‘Portrait of’, IMA newsletter, February 1992 Dissonance catalogue & poster Kirker, Anne, Instant Imaging, exhibition catalogue, Qld Art Gallery, May 1991 Andrew, Paul, Me, myself and the eye, exhibition catalogue, First Draft West, 1990 Art Almanac, May 1990, editorial & July 1991 cover MOCA Bulletin, 1989 Queensland Artworkers Alliance, Annual report 1989, Secretary’s report Axis file, exhibition catalogue, 1988 Wark, K., ‘Not Just a Pretty Interface’, Outer Site, Five Contemporary Art Spaces projects (publication), 1988 Helmrich, Michelle, ‘Interface/Brisbane’, Art & Text, Issue 29, 1988 Helmrich, Michelle, ‘Interfacing the Interface’, Eyeline, Issue 6, September 1988 Helmrich, Michelle, ‘That’s THAT, But is That All?: THAT Contemporary Art Space 1985-1988’, Eyeline, Issue 5, June 1988 Helmrich, Michelle, ‘Artist Page’, Eyeline, Issue 4, March 1988 Szulakowska, Ursula, ‘The World is an Abstract Pearl’, Eyeline, Issue 2, August 1987 Back |
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