Jane Burton
Artwork title: Shadowlands
Medium: Painted and varnished gelatin silver darkroom print (archival 300 GSM paper, watercolour, and gouache)
Size: 100 cm x 95 cm
Price: $7,500
About the Artwork
My work depicts the ruin of a late 19th century house lying abandoned and derelict on a rural plain in Victoria. Destroyed by fire, this once grand structure appears in a kind of enchanted slumber. Only its walls and chimney remain, while the door and window frames are hollow and open to the elements. I had passed this landscape several times in my travels, eventually capturing it one evening when the walls of the house were bathed in tree shadows. Conjuring beautiful wallpaper, for a few magical hours the flickering phenomenon of light and shadow animated this sleeping beauty.
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About the Artist
Jane Burton is an artist working with photography, film and painting. Her work explores memory, longing, mortality and female desire and is often darkly ambiguous and enigmatic.
Since graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, from the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania, she has exhibited her work regularly (holding more than forty solo exhibitions), and has been the recipient of artist residencies in Paris, London and Beijing.
Her photographs are held in prominent collections in Australia and abroad, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Australia, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.