Jane Joseph (artist)
Jane Joseph | |
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| Born | 1942 Surrey, England |
| Died | (aged 82) London, England |
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| Website | janejoseph |
Jane Joseph (1942 – 16 February 2025) was an English artist who worked in painting, printmaking, and drawing.[1][2] Two series of her etchings are held in the permanent collection at the British Museum.[3]
Life and work
She collaborated with various writers, including Mel Gooding, Michael Heller, and Anthony Rudolf, to produce artist's books and print folios.[4] In 1999 and 2001, she was commissioned by the Folio Society to create illustrations for reprints of Primo Levi’s significant works, If This Is a Man and The Truce.[5]
In addition to her artistic practice, Joseph served as an educator, teaching at Wimbledon School of Art and Morley College, where she contributed to the development of future artists for over forty years.[6][7]
"The places I choose to portray are ordinary: my studio, the surrounding London landscape, places outside the city which have become familiar to me. They are urban sites abundant with nature or they are rural or coastal, dominated by architecture: fixed spaces which are activated by the movement of people or traffic, the flow of water, a change in the weather, sometimes a piece of land seen from a moving ship. They are projected into focus by a particular light, a moment of flux I try to seize.
I have found in etching a medium whose infinite range of marks allows me to exploit on a small scale the dynamic power of black and white. I can resolve, as finished works, ideas which would otherwise remain in sketchbooks."[8]
— Jane Joseph, 2004
Joseph died in London on 16 February 2025, at the age of 82.[9]
Exhibitions
Joseph held over 20 solo exhibitions at venues,[9] including:
- Morley Gallery, London (1973, 1995, 1997, 2023)[10]
- Flowers East, London (1982, 1992, 1994)
- Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, New York (1999)
- Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University (1999)
- Worcester City Art Gallery (2001)
- Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (2004)
- London Jewish Cultural Centre (2014)[11]
- Southampton City Art Gallery (2016)[12]
- School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University (2004, 2018)[8]
Collections
Joseph's work[13] is held in the following permanent collections:
- Aberystwyth University[8]
- Ashmolean Museum[14]
- Ben Uri Gallery & Museum[9]
- British Library
- British Museum[3]
- Fitzwilliam Museum[15]
- Government Art Collection[16]
- Morley College[4]
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Whitworth[17]
- The Women's Art Collection[1]
United States
Portugal
- Douro Museum
References
- ^ a b "Jane Joseph | New Hall Art Collection Website | Cambridge". The Women's Art Collection. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Joseph, Jane, b.1942". Art UK. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Collections Online | British Museum | Jane Joseph". British Museum. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b Cunningham, Matthew (28 February 2025). "Jane Joseph (1942-2025)". Morley College London. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Talk with the artist: Jane Joseph". University of Cambridge Museums. 15 February 2023. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ jmonblat (28 November 2024). "Artist Jane Joseph – London Landscapes". Morley College London. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ Baksh, Melissa (24 March 2023). "Jane Joseph: A Life Drawn". Art UK. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ a b c "Jane Joseph - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries". Aberystwyth University. Archived from the original on 20 December 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ a b c "Ben Uri Collection - Artists | Jane Joseph". Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "2303-MG-A Life Drawn". Morley Gallery. Archived from the original on 23 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Etched memories of the Holocaust". Times Series. 9 January 2014. Archived from the original on 28 February 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ "Jane Joseph: Seeing the Space". Southampton City Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 4 November 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ "Jane Joseph - Overview". Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. Archived from the original on 28 February 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ "Kew Palace from Brentford | SEARCH THE COLLECTION". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ The Fitzwilliam Museum. "Hammersmith Bridge". The University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Jane Joseph". Government Art Collection. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Ragwort (print)". Whitworth Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "A little flora of common plants / Jane Joseph, Mel Gooding. | YCBA Collections Online". Yale Center for British Art. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
External links
- Artworks by or after Jane Joseph at the Art UK site