These exhibitions were curated while studying for my PhD. They have an interesting resonance with much of my research. However, they remain independent projects.

Double Time

Double Time
Artists Miranda Boulton and Jane Pryor
with guest poet, Kaddy Banyon
Curated by Jane Boyer
7 – 29 June 2019
ARTHOUSE1 Gallery
London

Double Time explored the visual dialogue that appeared in the work of Miranda Boulton and Jane Pryor who shared a studio space for a year. The influence the friends had on each other’s work became remarkably intriguing. Read more about the project through the links below:

Catalogue, where you can read my curatorial statement and Kaddy’s poems commissioned for the project.
Press Release

lookback@now

lookback@now
Artist Gabriela Shutz
Solo exhibition curated by Jane Boyer
5 – 27 October 2018
ARTHOUSE1 Gallery
London

lookback@now posed the question, what will we see millennia from now, if we look back to now and our fascination with mobile phones. Interested in the absorbed looking of her family and friends, Gabriela questions why she was bother by this absorption of given to a mobile device, and not bothered by the same gaze at a book.

Catalogue for the exhibition.
Press Release

Infinity

Infinity
Artists Gemma Cossey and Jane Ponsford
Curated by Jane Boyer
8 November to 2 December 2017
ARTHOUSE1 Gallery
London

We exist in infinite space, even though our daily lives, filled with minutiae, take us far away from that infinity. Gemma Cossey and Jane Ponsford embrace the infinite in humble ways. For them, infinity is not a place far away; it’s a place deep inside. Infinity presents two otherwise unassociated artists working to a similar purpose.

Catalogue in pdf format
Gemma Cossey and Jane Ponsford interviewed by Jane Boyer
Press Release

G R I T

G R I T
Artists Nigel Bird, Jack Ginno, David Minton and Marcia Teusink
Curated by Jane Boyer
2 June to 2 July 2016
ARTHOUSE1 Gallery
London

Perhaps most significant within any body of memories is the neutral space those memories occupy; distanced from their time, but not of this time; outside yet bound to current experiences of the moment. The works in this exhibition exemplify a mutable Neutral. They present the fortitude of persistence within the memory corpus: from the struggle of leaning the imposition of rules in David Minton’s autobiographical drawings, to visible evidence of the deterioration of time in the abject discarded materials of Marcia Teusink’s work, to Nigel Bird’s repetitive gesture that leaves a collateral trace, to Jack Ginno’s found haphazard mark processed into a mark of intent.

GRIT Invite
Link to the gallery discussion
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Press Release

Desire Path

Desire Path
Artists Andrew Vass and Nuala O’Donovan
Curated by Jane Boyer
5 to 27 June 2015
ARTHOUSE1 Gallery
London

The shortest distance between two points is not prescribed.
The shortest distance between two points is the one you desire most to take.

Desire Path was a contemporary exploration of gestural trace, repetitive form and the space that exists between the two, impelled by the drive within to mark a personal path. It offered a glimpse into the landscape of the inner self – the repetitions, retracing, constructions and layerings, which form the structure of our thought processes.

Email conversation between Andrew, Nuala and Jane.
‘An Intention to Being’ by Jane Boyer.