home janeostler@excite.com janeostler@gmail.com MA Fine Art 1986 Goldsmiths College, London BA (Hons.) First Class Painting 1980 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire MA thesis: "Carl Andre: Transcendental Value and Materials" |
Life Cafe Open Studios 2007 Essex Scene, September 2007 Corsham Revisited: 8 artists who studied at Bath Academy of Art: Jane Faulkner, Laura Ford, Andrea Garrihy, Marina Graham, Penny Grist, Lucinda Oestreicher, Jane Ostler, Marina Graham. 15-28 July 2007, Fairfield House, 44 High Street, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 0HF Kirby Life, 14-16 June 2007, St Michael's Church, Kirby le Soken, Essex Naze Tower Gallery, April-May 2007, The Naze, Old Hall Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex CO14 8HH Arna Farrington Gallery, December 2006 High Street, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex CO16 0EA Spirit @ The Chapel, Sept 2006 with Naomi Ann Dennis, Thorpe Road Kirby Cross Frinton-on-Sea, Essex CO13 OLZ Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, April-Sept 2006 NHS Trust, Main Hospital Street, Level 3 Life Cafe Open Studios 2006 Colchester Essex Scene, August 2006 County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex Corsham Contacts 2005 Harleston Gallery, 37-39 The Thoroughfare Harleston, Norfolk Caxton Books and Gallery 2005 Connaught Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex Colchester Fine Art Open 2003 Hay Gallery, Colchester School of Art Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road Colchester, Essex Art & Health 2001 Connecting Cultures, Hay Gallery,Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road Colchester, Essex Get Physical 1993 New Loom House Backchurch Street London E1 Things Being Possible 1992, Dean Clough, Halifax, Yorkshire, with Workshops on Demand Roses are Red? 1990 Plovdiv Museum, Plovdiv, Bulgaria City Polytechnic Gallery, London College of Furniture, 1989 with Daniel Maffe, 41 Commercial Road London E1 1LA, Sandra Higgins Fine Arts, 1989 Bourdon Street, Mayfair, London W1 with Guy Batey 9th Cleveland UK International Drawing Biennale 1989 Cleveland County Museum, UK Everyone a Winner 1988 Hackney Museum, Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 photo: http://www.sacollectables.com with Workshops on Demand Riverside Open 1988 Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 The Probability of Hope, 1987, Old Street Gallery, London EC1, with Anne Tuckwell. Whitechapel Open 1987 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, E1 Constitutional Journeys 1987 Cahill & Grebler London W6, with Workshops on Demand Signs of Life, 1983, The Old Ambulance Station, Old Kent Road, London SE with Allan deSouza Atelier 19, 1983, 27 Old Street, London E1 Artesera 1981 Syracuse University NY, USA |
TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS
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September 2007 - currently Art Development Officer/Artist in Residence at Art-Co, a Level Best not-for-profit Social Enterprise, The Dacon Trust Ltd, Great Tey, Colchester, Essex May - June
2007 Frinton on Sea Primary School, Art and Maths: Finding patterns in
chaos. Web Page Design in Macromedia Dreamweaver on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP) CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk March - July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk, Editing Digital Images: Introduction to Photoshop Techniques on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP) November 2004 Harlow Arts CD Cover/Disc Design Workshop, Harlow Old Town, Essex 2003 June 2002, 2003, 2004 Frinton-on-Sea County Primary School, Essex. Talk & workshops : School Alphabet/ “What an Artist Does” /Clay Cats Art & Grounds Week, Sets for “Cinders”. 2001 Firstsite @ The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester 2000 – 01 Connecting Cultures Placementee at Bromley by Bow Healthy Living Centre, London E3. Artist in a health setting generating insights into the experience of artists in such employment environments for under graduate syllabus for Art students. Worked with a trainee health net-worker using art as a focus to develop her confidence, educational potential and ability to provide cross-cultural assistance on health matters to ethnic minority groups. An initiative of the Colchester Institute. 1997 to 2000 Career break to focus on raising a family. 1996 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1 Tutor Grade 5 Oil painting for adults. 1990 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1 Tutor Grade 5 Painting and drawing, mixed level adults, LOCF accredited. 1992 to 1994 Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1 Tutor Grade 5 Art for older people. Created stage backdrops for music show at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, during 1992 the European Year of Older People, as part of our regular class work. 1988 to 1993 Workshops on Demand, 49 Ellington Street, Islington, London Art Tutor Co-member of six artists committed to working with disadvantaged groups and implementing equal opportunities within the art-workshop arena. We shared administration, fund-raising and teaching. The workshops resulted in the exhibition of work by our clients in art galleries and libraries. 1990 Whitechapel Art Gallery. Oil painting and reminiscence with pensioners in conjunction with "Arshile Gorky", work toured. 1989 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Photocopy collage using reminiscences. Pensioners. 1989 Serpentine Gallery, London. Workshop with homeless adults to build a giant pinhole camera and darkroom with wheel chair access. Work toured. 1988 Haggerston Centre, Hackney, London. Sculpture. Adults with learning difficulties. 1987 Shape & London Borough of Hackney, Space Studios, Belsham Street, Hackney Painting workshops for adults with learning difficulties. 1992 to 1992 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1 Artists' workshop Painting workshops in conjunction with "Richard Diebenkorn". Primary, Secondary GCSE and adults. Life drawing for GCSE students. 1991 to 1991 Chequer Centre, Islington Adult Education, London, EC1 Tutor Life drawing, watercolour and mixed level painting for adults 1988 to 1988 Newham Community College, East Ham, London Sessional Tutor, Fine Art Dept. Foundation One-to-one studio-based tutorials to art foundation students. 1987 to 1987 Peterborough General Hospital, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Printmaker in Residence Motivate and instruct clients in psychiatric day centre with theme of Pot Garden, using stencilling and sponge painting techniques. Work bought by the Friends of Peterborough Hospital for the permanent print collection. |
| ORIGIN | Place and date of birth Tonbridge, Kent, UK 08/09/58 |
| EDUCATION | Colchester Institute 2003-4 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham,
Wiltshire Sept 1976 to July 1977 |
| AWARDS | 1991 British Council Travel Bursary . Organised and raised funds for two exhibitions of British and Bulgarian artists in Plovdiv and London. The British Council funded return journey to Bulgaria for 3 artists. |
| PUBLICATIONS | 'Breast Feeding Twins (and other stories)'
Jane Ostler NCT Bulletin Tower Hamlets & Colchester
Divisions 1996, 1997 NCT Real life account of the tribulations of breast-feeding
twins. 'Painting in Plovdiv' Jane Ostler Artists Newsletter
March 1991 AN Publications Account of artist's exchange between
a British and a Bulgarian. Illustrated by photographs including full
colour magazine cover. 'The Serpentine Illusion' Jane Ostler Building Design March 1989 Descriptive account of contemporary art installation by David Tremlett in public gallery illustrated with colour photographs by author.
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| TALKS | January
2007 Colchester Institute, School of Art, Essex, CO3 June
2002, 2003, 2004 Frinton-on-Sea County Primary
School, Essex. Talk & workshops : School Alphabet/ “What
an Artist Does” /Clay
Cats. 1988 to 1988 The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London Gallery Guide: "The Open Show" Gallery talk on selected work in the exhibition, including my own. 1987 to 1987 Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London, Gallery Guide: "Le Corbusier", led guided talks around contemporary art gallery; involving and engaging gallery visitors. 1986 to 1986 Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London Gallery Guide: "Falls the Shadow", led guided talks around contemporary art gallery to personally selected works; involving and engaging public.
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| REFEREES | Ian Johnson, Tutor Graphic Communication, The Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road, Colchester CO3 3LL Margy Creber, Family Group Co-ordinator, The Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre, St Leonard's Street, Bow, London E3, Tel: 0208 7099746 Rose Martinez, Deputy Head Teacher, Queens College School for Girls, London Laura Garnham, Co-ordinator, Home-Start , Harwich, The Ark Family Centre, 36 Main Road, Harwich, Essex, CO12 3LU, Tel: 01255 556230 Silvia Moncada, Training Manager, CSV Media, The Point, 120 Princes Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 Joel Fisher, Director, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EW |