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Jane Dinmore

Jealous East

20 Sep 2021 — 03 Oct 2021

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Jealous are excited to host our debut exhibition with artist Jane Dinmore

This solo show will showcase a colourful collection of original works on paper and canvas, as well as a new print edition created in the Jealous Print Studio.

Dinmore plays with vibrant colours and shapes to create animated landscapes and obscure narratives full of energy, momentum, concealment and possibility. This collection of paintings and drawings on paper have been formed by layering buoyant form with spontaneous gestures and definite marks. In order to create witty compositions, the works use cartoon language, favouring the absurd.

Can silliness be a serious pursuit? This is just one of the questions posed by Dinmore’s art. The process of creating paintings and drawing is a joyous one and the results subvert the form. The titles of the work add yet another layer, intended when read to amuse the audience. The cubist poetry of Gertrude Stein has influenced the abstraction and simplicity of Dinmore’s portrayal of memory and observation. Her confident use of marks has developed into a distinct visual language that emulates a strong spirit.

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Instantly recognisable is Dinmore’s distinct mix of the comic and abstract. Her inspiration comes from the interaction of colour, 20th century contemporary abstract sculpture, doodling, bioformic shapes, standing stones, and time as object. She takes motivation from nights out, showing off, prudery, misunderstandings, innuendo, especially mid-century abstract painting & illustrations. 1960’s and 1970’s illustration, poetry, natural forms, London night clubbing and music all infuse in her work which can never sensibly be articulated in words. She enjoys freedom to play, yet understand the serious, in order to avoid it. Jane believes this avoidance is the key to camp sensibility. In Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on “Camp” Sontag cites, “Indeed the essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. Through the beckoning hands, shoulders and multiple legs within Dinmore’s work, she hopes to convey a super subtle camp. The entanglements on view are never intended to be sexual, but about giving the viewer more to wonder and encourage intrigue.

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Jane Dinmore

UK Based Artist

Jane Dinmore uses the freedom of non-representational abstraction in her work. Awkward clashes of witty amorphous lines and solid anthropomorphic forms create balanced compositions with a Wabi-Sabi sensibility.
The work is an endless dialogue of vivid colour, shape, consciousness and the absurd transformed with a subliminal sense of omnipotence. Nonsense and familiarities are turned into landscapes, which have an energy and sense of optimism. Comical titles allude to mischief. Recognisable shapes like mouse holes and the characterful re-arrangement of standing stones are a favourite for Dinmore. These works are imagined places with the trace of human presence: the objects we leave behind or hide behind.
Paintings and drawings are created by layering buoyant forms, spontaneous gestures and heavy definite marks, to transform the incidental and obscure. The works visual language has cartoon notions, particularly evident in the abstract non-existent sculpture drawings. Within the compositions, the equality of shapes from the ephemeral to the ancient is gathered together with Dinmore’s nostalgia for mid-century line and colour. Assembling fragments of memory, the aftermath of parties, remodelled truths, and fleeting moments become playful mythologies. The result; humorous and eloquent lawless abstraction of fragmented narrative and the metaphysical.
Jane Dinmore studied Fine Art Painting at the Hertfordshire University, graduating in 1995. She continued her studies at Goldsmiths, London, graduating in 1999. Dinmore moved her London studio to the East Sussex coast in 2006. Dinmore has recently collaborated with artist Jack Jelfs; creating spontaneous drawings to his sound pieces.