Jane Fox MRSS

Explorations into mystery, things unknown/ invisible/ hidden are the presiding forces within the work - in the natural world, health, psychology, culture and politics.

Since 2005 Jane has been fermenting probiotics and is researching and growing sustainable bio-materials for sculpture.

Living, ecological materials are fed, incubated, fermented and grown. This is a new perspective for sculpture. Conventional sculpture materials can be expensive to manufacture and buy. Microbial cellulose and mycelium is economic, light-weight and durable. In 2023 the probiotic microbial cellulose was accepted into the Future Materials Bank, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. This is an international resource of organic and natural materials for artists and designers. 

https://www.futurematerialsbank.com/material/scoby-3/ and an article 'Becoming Probiotic - Health, ecology and our second brain' was published in Planet - The Welsh Internationalist magazine/ Welsh and International politics and culture, 251, 2023, ISSN 0048-4288

Jane has been a scuba diver since 1985 and has witnessed coral bleaching, massive depletion of fish, corals, sponges and other sea life. She works with a marine conservation group as a diver removing rubbish and ghost fishing equipment from the sea; including lobster pots, rope, netting, plastic and metal. Any creatures trapped in the lost pots are returned to the sea. Jane is a volunteer diver with Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners (NARC). 

https://www.narcdiving.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0MTnZtXU2bHF-VoArdeQ9N523x33oNQF95y_Y13JsuAoYDm-6tcNNhDYc

Selected Exhibitions

Bloomberg's New Contemporaries, LIverpool and Beaconsfield Gallery, London, Whitechapel Gallery, 291 Gallery, Kowalsky Gallery, Century Gallery, London, Chapter Arts, Cardiff, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, RWA, Bristol, ACEarts, Somerset

Selected Awards and Prizes

Ty Cerdd/ Music House Wales, Arts Council Of Wales, Studio award, ACAVA/ Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Arts (Esmee Fairbairn and London Arts Board), The Prankard Jones Memorial Prize; and the Monnington Prize (both at the Slade) 

Musical Theatre and Experimental Opera Productions

'Butcher' performed at Chapter Theatre, Cardiff, 2011. 'Shelter' performed at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2015. 'Peacekeeping; and The Filmmaker and The Organ Trader' opera doublebill performed at Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, 2018

Instagram: @janefoxsculptor