Bay Harbour: September 07, 2022

26 Bay Harbour News Wednesday September 7 2022
FEATURED ARTIST
JANE DOWNES
BIOGRAPHY
Jane is a full time sculptor/designer
working from her home workshop
in Little River on Banks Peninsula,
Canterbury. Jane’s current practice
consists of small, medium and large
indoor and outdoor works made
in steel.
Sculptures are constructed from parts of
plasma cut and formed from sheet steel and
profiles, rather than working in the ‘full round’
- Jane calls this style ‘2 1/2D’. This enables
her to utilise scrap sheet metal and other
discarded materials. Jane exhibits at galleries
and major sculpture events throughout
New Zealand and undertakes site and client
specific sculpture commissions as well as
selling smaller works online.
forms in her work that resonate with her,
both natural and manmade. Often common
or from childhood, sometimes delicate and
fleeting objects from nature, sometimes robust
geometric forms from popular culture and
industry. Specific themes in her work include
colonisation, security and shelter, along with
more abstract themes commenting on the
human condition, challenging preconceptions
of purpose and beauty, valuable and lowly,
masculine and feminine, permanence and
the ephemeral. These dichotomies are also
reflected in her use of recycled, found and
industrial materials. Jane believes in making her
work accessible and so most of her pieces are
unlimited editions.
Jane’s husband Mario, with his knowledge
of materials and engineering, aswell as his
installation skills plays a large part in her
work. Jane is interested in feelings evoked
by shape, form and pattern, how we react
to scale and light and the influence this has
on art, architecture and design. Jane uses
THE RENOWNED
MT PLEASANT ART EXHIBITION
RETURNS IN 2022
The Art Exhibition will transform the Mt Pleasant Community
Centre into an art gallery and will be held over two days; a ticketed
Gala Evening opening on Friday 16th September 6-9pm (R18)
which includes a live auction of donated works, continuing on
Saturday 17th September from 9am - 3pm (gold coin donation
entry). Over 40 talented artists will be exhibiting more than
500 pieces for sale - artworks, jewellery and sculpture in what
promises to be an entertaining event for the whole community.
Book your gala night
tickets at Eventbrite
before they sell out!
FRI 16 SEPT (GALA): 6-9 pm
$25 ENTRY / LIVE AUCTION (Tickets from Eventbrite.co.nz)
SAT 17 SEPT (DAY): 9-3 pm
GOLD COIN DONATION
Held at the Mount Pleasant Community Centre
3 McCormacks Bay Road, Mount Pleasant
Mtpleasantartex
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