Jane Hamilton was born in Suffolk, England. She spent the first six years of her life in West Africa, a vivid childhood experience that has had a profound and lasting effect on her work.
" I love the elegance, the sensuality and dignity that, for me, are such an integral part of native African culture. I have always been drawn to the 'feet in the dust' feel of people, the essential strength or vulnerability that exists in all of us when everything else is stripped away. I like sculptures to be uplifting, to have a sensual feel and beauty that can touch the inner emotions that we all have, but often tend to ignore"
Dance is another medium that Jane uses to express beauty, fragility, strength and emotion through forms and figures that we can all relate to.
" For me, dance is probably the ultimate form of expression, the interpretation of emotion through music and movement. I love that contradiction between seeming fragility of dancers and the great physical strength that you know underlies it. That was something that Degas understood very well"
Her formal training began at Falmouth School of Art, then on to the City and Guilds School of Art in London. At a later period she studied part time at the Sir John Cass School, London.
Her work can be seen at her studio in Oxfordshire. She is a member of The Society of Portrait Sculptors and currently lives and works in Oxfordshire, together with her husband, Simon Allison, who is also an artist and together they established and run their fine art bronze casting business; Lockbund Sculpture Foundry
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Jane's work is mainly commission based and is in private collections in America, New Zealand, Canada, Nigeria, Hong Kong and England.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
The Thompson Gallery, Suffolk
www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk
The Whychwood Gallery, Oxfordshire
www.wychwoodart.com
EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Fifth Plinth, Chelsea Arts Club.
2022 Memories, Group exhibition, Shropshire.
2022 FACE, Group exhibition, Society of Portrait Sculptors, London.
2022 Joint Exhibition, Drawing and Sculpture, Lockbund Gallery, Oxfordshire.
2021 Commission for public sculpture, 7 life-size figures, Installed in Barnsley to commemorate front line workers
2021 FACE, Society of Portrait Sculptors Exhibition, (online) London
2019 FACE, Society of Portrait Sculptors Exhibition, London
2018 Solo Exhibition, Church St. Fine Art, Nelson. New Zealand.
2017 Group Show, Quiddity Fine Art, Wiltshire.
2016 Art in Action, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire.
2015 Group Exhibition, Wychwood Art, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
2015 Group Show, Quiddity Fine Art, Wiltshire.
2015 Society of Portrait Sculptors, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London.
2014 Society of Portrait Sculptors, The Sladmore Gallery, London.
2014 Group Exhibition, Lockbund Gallery, Oxfordshire.
2013 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2013 Group Exhibition, Lockbund Gallery, Oxfordshire.
2012 Society of Portrait Sculptors Exhibition, Cork St. London.
2012 Group Exhibition, Lockbund Gallery, Oxfordshire.
2011 Society of Portrait Sculptors Exhibition, Cork St. London.
2011 Group Exhibition, Lockbund Gallery, Oxfordshire.
2010 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2010 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Artweeks Exhibition.
2010 Group show, The Turril Gardens, Oxford.
2009 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2009 Group show Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Artweeks Exhibition.
2008 Banbury 400, Open Art Exhibition, Oxfordshire - Won Best Sculpture Award.
2008 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2007 Group show, Aynho. Oxfordshire.
2007 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2006 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
2006 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2006 Group show, BVA Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
2005 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2005 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
2005 Two man show, The Michael Hestletine Gallery, Chenderit School, Oxfordshire
2005 Memories Art Exhibition, Shropshire: work from Africa and Europe.
2004 Group show, The Turrill Gardens, Sumertown, Oxford.
2004 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London
2004 Group show, The Table Yard, Idlicote House, Warwickshire.
2004 Three person show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
2003 Group show, The Turrill Gardens, Summertown, Oxford.
2002 Group show, The Stable Yard, Idlicote House, Warwickshire.
2002 Group exhibition, The Blake Gallery, York.
2001 Group exhibition, Foxhall Gallery, Washington D.C.
2001 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
2000 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London
2000 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
1999 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
1998 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
1998 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
1997 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
1997 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
1997 Group show of sculpture, Woodstock Museum.
1997 Group show of sculpture, Banbury Museum, Oxfordshire.
1996 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
1996 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
1996 Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork St. London.
1996 Solo exhibition, Emscote Lawn, Warwick.
1995 Group show, The Stable Yard, Idlicote House, Warwickshire.
1993 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
1992 Group show, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire Art Weeks.
1991 Two person exhibition, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire.
1991 Group show, Henderson Carter Fine Arts, London SW18.
1991 Two person exhibition, Royal Aeronautical Society, London W1.
1989 Group show, Chelsea Arts Society, London.
1988 Two person exhibition, The Draycott Gallery, London SW3.
1987 Three person exhibition, The Guild Gallery, London SW1.
1987 Two person exhibition, Radley College, Oxfordshire.
1987 Two person exhibition, The Swan Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire.
1986 Two person exhibition, Kintbury Berkshire.
1986 Group show, 'Out of Clay', Pool, Dorset.
1985 Two person exhibition, Foxhall Gallery, Washington D.C.
1982 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
1982 Group show, private exhibition, South London.
1980 Solo exhibition, Foxhall Gallery, Washington D.C.
1980 Two person exhibition, King Street Gallery, London SW1.
1979 A prize winner with 'Two Boys' in the Heredities competition.