riot, 114 x 90 cm, graphite on Arches mounted to canvas

Mrs Davison

Emergency on Earth, Graphite and pigment on black paper, emergency light, 220 x 150 x 60 cm . 3.0

the little bump, 70 x 56, graphite on cotton paper

matter matters

Pony · Graphite and Colour Pencil on papered board · 91x70cm · 1.0

Artist statement

Jo Lane uses her drawing practice to explore social and psychological subjects. Working between UK and Australia she is a ‘drawer’ first and foremost, using charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, and any other material that is present-to-hand, honouring the texture, immediacy and honesty of drawing.   Whilst immersed in fastidious mark-making and fibre use as metaphor, decision-making is reflexive, responding intuitively to the outside world, the inside world and the differing shades and depths of line forming on surfaces. The contrast between self and other and the systems of separation and unity that operate throughout the humanity, drives the work.
British Psychoanalyst, Donald W Winnicott places some artistic motivation in the tension between the desire to hide and the desire to communicate.  Her work erupts from this tension, between the private refuge of thought and the nature of external engagement that is drawing.