Jane Skeer lives and works on Kaurna Land. She predominately works in sculpture and installation, creating works in response to her observations of people, objects and materiality. Skeer re-presents familiar ready-made objects imbued with their associated sensory/haptic memories, highlighting the vitality she sees in them. A physical process of assembling material en-masse allows her the time and space to inhabit, contemplate and work collaboratively with the material.
Jane Skeer primarily works site specifically, building installations experientially that modify space and comment on our past histories. She is fascinated with materials that come from the landscape; they wear the landscape embedded in their surface. She finds herself constantly drawn to regional Australia, emotively responding to these lived experiences.
On the Horizon
2019
Rachet tie downs sourced from the roadside on a recent trip along the Western Australian Coastline
120 x 60xm individual works, 120 x 300cm as a whole
Photographer Grant Hancock
On the road to Alice
2019
Rachet tie downs sourced from the roadside on a recent trip to the Northern Territory, Australia
120 x 240cm
Photographer Grant Hancock
Highway 1
2019
used rachet tie downs either found on roadsides around Australia or bought on Australian ebay, Gumtree & Grays Online
120 x 300cm
Photographer Grant Hancock
On the Horizon series
2019
Rachet tie downs sourced from the roadside on a recent trip along the Western Australian Coastline
120 x 60xm individual works, 120 x 300cm as a whole
photographer Sam Roberts
Responding to Wild Dog Hill (Whyalla)
2019
120cm x 240cm x 5cm
used truck rachet straps bought on Australian ebay, Gumtree & Grays Online
photographer Sam Roberts