Jane has completed a number of temporary and permanent commissions including: Reflectagon a temporary camera obscura for Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire (2004); Postcard Journey and Button Wall for the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital Art Project (2004) which won a Saltire Award for Art and Architecture; A Taste of Summer a temporary light installation/performance for Forces of Light Festival, Helsinki (1999) and Star Gazing a permanent installation at Edinburgh Dental Institute (1997).

Jane is currently working on Wall of Letters, a 220 square metre glass wall for Christ’s Lane, Cambridge. This is a permanent commissioned by Land Securities with Christ’s College Cambridge. Her new temporary work Justice shines by its own light is due to be installed on the building wrap and hoarding of the new UK Supreme Court in Parliament Square, London in early 2008.

Jane has also exhibited widely in more conventional gallery spaces in Britain and abroad including work at Café Gallery, London (2005), Buzzer Thirty, New York (2004), the Crafts Council, London (2003), Dominic Berning, London (2000-2004) the Harris Museum, Preston (2000), Varberg Museum, Sweden (1997). She has had solo exhibitions at the Economist, London (2002), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (2001), and Damasquine Gallery, Brussels (2002).

The negotiation process involved in realising her large-scale projects is a primary research interest and formed the basis of her PhD thesis The Process and Practice of the Artist in Public Art Commissions completed at Manchester Metropolitan in 2002. Her six part series ‘Navigating Places’ published in a-n Magazine, 2003-2004 discusses a number of issues that artists face in working in the public realm through the examination of specific temporary and permanent projects in the UK.

Jane is particularly interested in developing ways in which the artist’s experience, and reflection of practice can be voiced to other artists, professionals, academics and other interested parties through the spoken and written word.

Her research reports Reflections on Networking and Impact of Networking (both Newcastle-upon-Tyne: a-n The Artists Information Company, 2006) examine artists’ experiences of Networking Artists Networks (NAN) project and what the impact of networking has on artistic practice.

Since joining ResCen in 2004, she has worked with many of the other ResCen artists to develop and co-edit publications such as Errollyn Wallen’s About Errollyn: reflections of the artist as performer (London: ResCen Publications, 2005), Shobana Jeyasingh’s Animating Architecture: Foliage Chorus (London: ResCen Publications, 2005) and Rosemary Lee and Niki Pollard’s Beached: a commonplace book (London: ResCen Publications, 2006).  She is co-editor of Navigating the Unknown: the creative process in contemporary performing arts, eds, (London: MU Press/ResCen Publications, 2006).

Jane’s interest in supporting artists’ practices has led her to mentor a number of emerging artists on the Irwell Sculpture Trail’s 1st Out Bursary (2003-2004) as well as mid-career artists on Making Art Work, a professional practice scheme run by Suffolk County Council (2003-2006). She was a part-time lecturer in Contextual Studies and Art History at Roehampton University (2003-2007) and continues to guest lecture.