Jane Gifford

25 February - 24 March 2005

17.05.04 Sinking Pink Church

For the past 14 years, artist Jane Gifford’s practice has centred on the documentation of her dreams. Gifford keeps a daily dream diary in which she writes salient events and creates visual notes of people, places and objects that she remembers from her reverie. From these notes are made artworks in different forms, painted panels and canvases, an ongoing bookwork of icons and text and a website.

15.11.04 Tree Bridge

Gifford does not approach the work as a psychoanalytic exercise; her works are more akin to film, creating an ever-growing storyboard of disparate narrative. Although the narrative content is highly personal and autobiographical in origination, the resulting images have a separation from the artist’s self due to their universal content. Looking at the multitude of scenarios the viewer recognises certain situations through having shared similar dream experiences.

03.03.04 Wearing Bathrobes in the Street

For her solo exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, Jane Gifford presented her most recent dream paintings from 2004 and the last year of her ‘Dream Journal’ bookwork. Also showing for the first time in London, a film work made by Gifford where she invited people to relate their own dream narratives to the camera.

18.01.04 Boat with Reeds and Dad

Link: www.janegifford.co.uk