Pine Tree Green, 2018
photographer Grant Hancock
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Skeer graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2015. Her work Quiet Square was part of Hatched: The 2016 National Graduate Exhibition at PICA, Perth.
Skeer has participated in artist residencies and exhibited work Internationally and throughout Australia. Skeer was awarded the 2018 Emerging Visual Artist of the Year at the Adelaide Critics Circle.
In 2019 Skeer's work True Blue was a finalist in the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at IMA, Brisbane.
In 2020, Jane Skeer travelled to Kerala, India, on a month-long artist residency with the ACE Open/Kochi Biennale Foundation. On her return, she completed a four-week residency on Kangaroo Island, responding to the Kangaroo Island Bushfires, proudly supported by Country Arts SA and Catherine Murphy, Palace of Production.
Skeer is currently living in Glasgow, studying for a Master of Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Arts as the recipient of the 2022 Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship.
In December, Skeer was commissioned to return Australia to re-install her work True Blue at Yarrila Arts and Museum Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Skeer recently travelled to Manhattan, New York to exhibit in a nine-week program with House of Tyres in an all-women group exhibition Play with form until it has impact.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2024 Master of Fine Art, Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015 Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours First Class), Adelaide Central School of Art, Glenside, South Australia
2014 Bachelor of Visual Art, Adelaide Central School of Art, Glenside, South Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES
2024 I am NOT your Doormat, Commissioned by Adelaide City Council, International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women, SA
2024. Woman to Woman, The Gallery Norwood/St Peters Library, St Peters, South Australia
2022 Artists in Residence, Whyalla Unearth Festival, Whyalla, South Australia
2021 You don’t find India, India finds you, Five Walls gallery, Footscray, Victoria
2021 Out of the Ashes, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW
2020 We’re in this together, Guildhouse & City of Adelaide, Art Pod, Adelaide, SA
2020 Embedded Landscape, Fabrik – Arts and Heritage, Lobethal, SA
2020 ACE Open/Kochi Biennale Foundation Residency Exchange, Fort Kochi, India
2020 On the Horizon, The Metropolitan Hotel, Adelaide, SA
2019 Twine, The Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, South Australia
2018 A Sustainable Celebration, New Year’s Eve in Elder Park, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Afresh, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia
2018 True Blue, BOAA - Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat, Victoria
2018 To look with fresh eyes – Mount Gambier revisited, Collective Haunt Inc. Gallery, Norwood, SA
2018 Film, Adelaide Festival Centre Moving Image Screen Program, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Pine tree green, Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre/Country Arts SA/SA Power Networks, Mt Gambier, SA
2018 Substituted - SALA Artist in Residence, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Sign of the times, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
2018 Anew, Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
2017 Left Behind, FELTspace ARI, Adelaide, South Australia
2017 Public Art – stobie pole rope works, (Commission), Port Pirie CBD Rejuvenation, Port Pirie, SA
2017 Interventions, South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
2017 Flyers, DreamBIG Festival - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
2016 The Messenger, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Victoria
2016 Meandering, Arkaba Hotel, (Commission), Fullarton, South Australia
2016 Suspended, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia - Garden Space, Parkside, South Australia
2016 Ode to the fisherman, Floating Goose Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Un)translation As An Alternative Paradise, Barnes Garage, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2024 MFA Degree Show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2024 Play with form until it has impact, House of Tyres, New York, USA
2023 Halfway, Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
2023 GSA + HFBK, Hamburg Exchange, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, United Kingdom + Hamburg, Germany
2023. MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2022 Heyson Sculpture Biennial, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, SA
2022 Wonderground, Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley, SA
2022 Constantly Curious, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, SA
2020 Spaces, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, SA
2020 Love in the time of Covid 19, Gagprojects/Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town, SA
2019 The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Qld
2019 The North Sydney Art Prize, Waveton, North Sydney, NSW
2019 Wish You Were Here, Adelaide Central School of Art, Glenside, South Australia
2018 Emerging Visual Artist of the Year, Adelaide’s Critics Circle, 22nd Annual Awards, Excellence in Arts, SA
2018 Catapult Mentorship – Richard Lewer, Guildhouse, Adelaide, South Australia
2018 Her Name, Adelaide Central School of Art/Guildhouse, Glenside, South Australia
2018 Endless Horizons, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide South Australia
2018 Internal Forces, Riddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia
2018 Francois Knoetze: The Art of Mongo, Collaboration with OSCA, Port Adelaide, SA
2018 Adelaide Fringe Exhibitions, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
2017 City Rural Emerging Artist Award, South Australia Living Artists (SALA) Awards, South Australia
2017 Adelaide Festival Centre & DreamBIG Festival /SALA Artist-in-Residence, Adelaide, South Australia
2016 Hatched: National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia
2016 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia