Jane Bailey

‘To think of place as an intersection – a particular configuration of happenings – is to think of place in a constant sense of becoming through practice
and practical knowledge.’ - Tim Cresswell, Place
I make art as a way of investigating the world, particularly ‘places’ as they are produced by people’s comings and goings. I look for interconnections and separations: between people, and between people and the locations they inhabit.
Where do I end, and other people, things and places begin? This is one of the questions that fuels my work.
My working process is often collaborative and it involves activities such as talking, eating, walking, riding, rowing and recording. Inquisitive interactions of camera, person and place are used to cast a sideways glance at seemingly straightforward, ‘natural’, environments.

- Jane Bailey

Revert

Jane Bailey’s quietly enthralling video forces a consideration of how a familiar, natural environment might be seen and experienced in other more disjointed and confusing ways. Revert presents a lush, idyllic landscape setting. Slowly, an ungainly figure walks cautiously into the frame. It may take a while for the viewer to realise that this isn’t just a pleasant walk in the woods, but an awkward and apprehensive struggle with the place and its surroundings. Here nature, even in its most benign and picturesque state, becomes a difficult, uncertain terrain.

- Rebecca Darch

Recent Exhibitions
2008 Time, Tides and Teabags, B-Side festival.
2008 At Sea, Transition 8, Newlyn Art Gallery,
2008 Screen, Contemporary Art 2008, Atkinson Gallery
2007 Participation, The Poly, Falmouth.
2007 Person, place, interaction, Degree show, MA Contemporary Visual Arts, UCF.

Jane Bailey's website
MAstars article on Axis