Artist Bio (2024)
Jane Forrest (2005) is an artist and curator based in New York City and Toronto. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Art & Science. Her labour-intensive practice utilizes oil painting as a way of connecting to the world, exploring themes of memory and community. She has exhibited her work at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Northern Contemporary Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum. She had her first solo exhibition What Might Have Been Lost at Remote Gallery September 2022.
Jane Forrest wishes to thank The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for its financial support.
email: jane.forrest.2005@gmail.com instagram: @janes.art
My work functions as a love letter to the life around me. Using subject matter sourced from communities and family history: studio buildings, handwritten letters and shadows, time is used as a medium to connect to the world. Through perspective, movement and light, my work reconstructs the world through my eyes. Utilizing oil painting as a form of preservation: my work can give me proof that I’m here and that I’ll leave something behind. The fragility of falling buildings, disappearing shadows, and fading handwriting is overcome.
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