CV | Jane Ponsford

Recent and upcoming events and exhibitions

Tonau, ongoing materials and landscape research project with ceramicist Kim Norton, poet Laura Wainwright and Oriel Myrddin Gallery leading towards an exhibition early in 2024
18 March 2023 Papermaking and Sculptural forms inspired by Shōji Hamada, workshop at Ditchling Museum of Arts + Crafts, Sussex
4 February – 10 June 2023 Earth Materials group exhibition at Gallery 57, Arundel, Sussex
February 2023 Pop-up exhibition and papermaking workshop with Hole & Corner, Bruton, Somerset

Qualifications & membership

1983 BA (Hons) 1st Class, Fine Art, Kingston School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames
1995 City & Guilds 730 part 1 Further & Adult Education Certificate
2006 Community Arts Training: Surrey County Arts
Member of IAPMA, The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists

Solo / two person exhibitions

2021 Earthbound: a fascination with what lies beneath our feet, two person exhibition with Jane Ponsford and Kim Norton, as part of Ground Works, Three Stories, Nailsworth
2019 Terrain, various venues across the Surrey Hills AONB as part of Surrey Unearthed
2017 Infinity, two person, Gemma Cossey & Jane Ponsford, curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse 1, London
2008 Translations, The Lightbox, Woking
2008 Books from the Landscape, Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey
2007- 8 Papertrails, various venues throughout Elmbridge, Surrey as part of a one year landscape project supported by Arts Council England

Group exhibitions

2023 Earth Materials, group exhibition at Gallery 57, Arundel, Sussex
2021 Find, Make, Gallery 57, Arundel, Sussex
2021 Connect, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
2021 Crafted Collectables group exhibition at Sarah Myerscough Gallery alongside major works by Wycliffe Stutchbury
2021 Warp, Weft, Stitch, Thread, Gallery 57, Arundel, Sussex
2021 Broken Beauty group exhibition with Sarah Myerscough Gallery at Collect 2021
2020 Gathering at Make Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, featuring Jane Ponsford, Mark Reddy, Romilly Saumarez Smith and Katie Spragg
2019 Winter / Festive display and installation at The New Craftsmen Gallery, London
2019 Winter Salon, Offshoot Gallery, London
2019 Paper, Gallery 57, Arundel, Sussex
2019 Lines Etc, with White Noise Projects, One Paved Court, Richmond, London
2019 Past and Present Tense, with White Noise Projects, The Crypt Gallery, London
2019 The everyday has a certain strangeness, curated by Alessandra Taccia, St Peter’s Church, Cambridge
2019 Colour Journeys, a group exhibition alongside Women’s Work, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Sussex
2018 Unearthed Exhibition, Leith Hill Place, Surrey
2018 SFSA Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2018 A contour, a curve – the lie of the land, Gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex
2017 RED, with Platform Peer Group, Rottingdean, Brighton
2016 Threads – Open Textiles, selected by Mchael Brennand-Wood and Polly Leonard, Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury
2015 Select Showcase, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
2015 Passing Moment, installation, Winchester City Museum, Winchester, Hampshire as part of 10 Days Chalk
2015 Cloth and Thread, Two Person Exhibition, West Dean, West Sussex
2014 Selected at Newark Park,Newark Park, Gloucestershire http://www.sitselect.org
2013 Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London
2013 Share and Exchange, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London
2012 Xmas BOGOF WW Gallery, London
2011 First Anniversary: Paper, Unit Twelve, Staffordshire
2009 In To Land, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2008 Paper Foundations, Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering
2008 Recycled by Design, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford and The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
2008 Connection, selected by Caroline Worthington, Curator of Art, York Museums Trust, York Art Gallery, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2007 Delicate Situations, Web-based
2006 GIFT, Museum MAN, Liverpool
2006 Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, curated by Tom Newell, Penny Whitehead & Daniel Simpkins
2006 Paperworks: Paper Art in the 21st Century, Bury Art Gallery, Bury
2005 The ING Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2004 Pulped, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
1999 Paper, Ikon touring exhibition, Birmingham
1998 Field, exhibition touring to Scunthorpe Museum, Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery and Pitshanger Gallery, Ealing, London
1997 Field, Chapman Gallery, Salford University, Salford
1996 New Paper, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
1995 In + Out of Paper, Alternative Arts, London
1995 Boxing Clever, Chertsey Museum, Chertsey
1994 Old Object / New Subject, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
1994 Recent work, Space Frame, Gillingham, Kent
1994 Paperworks, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
1993 Truth, Dare, Promise, Gillingham Open, Gillingham
1984 New Contemporaries, ICA, London
1983 Stowells Trophy Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

Curating / Selecting

2013 Mr Sherriff’s Artists, for R C Sherriff Trust, Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton on Thames, Surrey
2008 – 2011 Artist Residency project, St George’s Arts, Surrey
2008 MAstar Selector for Axisweb
2009 MAstar Selector for Axisweb
1995 In + Out of Paper, Group Exhibition, Alternative Arts, London

Selected Teaching and Workshops

2019 Papermaking – Transformation: Pulp to Paper, afternoon workshop alongside From the Book to the Book, Exhibition at Offshoot Gallery, London
15 – 18 July 2019 Papermaking with natural colours, West Dean
Last weekend in July 2019, short papermaking workshops with Hole & Corner at Port Eliot Festival
2 June 2019 short papermaking workshops, West Dean Festival
4 May 2019 short papermaking workshops as part of a day of Natural Dye demos and workshops at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
4 April 2019, Papermaking at Heckfield Place with Hole & Corner
16 & 17 July 2016, Art in Action: Introduction to Papermaking.
2016 – present Papermaking Short Course Tutor, West Dean, Sussex
2015 Papermaking workshop at Select Showcase, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

2015 Creative Papermaking with Colour and Thread, Short Course, West Dean, Sussex
2014 Papermaking Workshop, SIT select 2014, Painswick, Gloucestershire
2012 People, Places and Papermaking, workshops at Barnard Castle and Winston, County Durham for The Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership
2010 Papermaking workshop and demonstration, Renaissance Late, The British Museum, London
2010 Practical papermaking, The British Museum, London
2009 Making Paper with Jane Ponsford, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
2009 Papermaking, with Epsom Salts, Bourne Hall, Surrey
2008 Family Workshop: Papermaking, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking, Surrey
2008 Pulp Fiction: Papermaking, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford
2008 Papermaking, Riverhouse Barn, Walton, Surrey
2008 Progressive Paper, Farnham Maltings, Farnham, Surrey
2008 Assisted on Alinah Azadeh’s Crafting Space at Origin, Somerset House
2007 Papermaking workshops with schools, Hurst Park Primary, St Albans, Cardinal Newman School, Surrey, Esher Church School, Surrey
2007 Assisted The Making, West Dean, Sussex

Projects and Commissions

2020 Earthbound nine – month collaborative exchange project with ceramicist Kim Norton, as part of Ground Works project, with Select Arts Stroud
2018 – 19 Terrain, a project set in the Surrey ANOB as part of Surrey Unearthed with Surrey Hills Arts
2015 Passing Moment, landscape project based on walks along the South Downs, Winchester City Museum, Hampshire
2014 The Collecting Instinct, materials-based project
2014 A landscape in ten parts, landscape project, Newark Park, Gloucestershire
2012 Home Ground, short environmental paper-making project, Elmbridge, Surrey
2010 Trace, environmental art and paper-making project, ACS International School, Cobham, Surrey
2008 Translations, 10 week residency and exhibition, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking, Surrey
2008 Storytrees: Contemporary Art in the Surrey Landscape, The Lightbox Gallery, Woking
2007 Papertrails: art in the landscape, 12-month residency in the Elmbridge woods and commons, Surrey
1999 Binding Line, a series of wall-peices for Eversheds Ltd, Birmingham
1997 Colour Field for the Chapman Gallery, Salford University

Competitions, prizes and awards

2012 Capital Grant, The R. C. Sherriff Trust, Elmbridge
2009 Shortlisted for ARC Craft Award, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2008 Selected by Arts & Business for Visual
2007 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, South East
1993 Prizewinner, Truth Dare Promise, Gillingham Open, Gillingham
1982 Travelling Scholarship, Stanley Picker, Florence

Publications and interviews

2019 The Everyday Has a Certain Strangeness, an article in Lissome, by Reeme Idris, photographs: Genevieve Lutkin
2019 Jane Ponsford, an interview in Issue 18 of Hole&Corner magazine, words: Stephanie Donaldson, Photographs: Michael Bodium
2017 Infinity, an interview with Gemma Cossey and Jane Ponsford by Jane Boyer
2014 Thread, a publication from a collaborative project with SHARE collective based at Fabrica, Brighton
2012 BBC Surrey, interviewed by Emily Jeffery
2011 Track Changes, an artist’s book with Figure Ground
2010 Artists’ Books, Nature and the Landscape, Sarah Bodman: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/7979/1/sbhandout.pdf
2008 The art of blogging, a-n collections, Jane Watt
2008 Visual Catalogue for Arts & Business
2007 a-n Magazine, Artists’ projects in progress: Jane Ponsford, Papertrails residency
1999 Paper: An Inspirational Portfolio, Gabrielle Falkiner, Watson-Guptill ISBN10:0823003043
1994 Vogue Magazine

Residencies

2011 Track Changes, Figure Ground, LV21, a decommissioned Lightship on the Kent Coast
2010 Residency and environmental art project, ACS International School, Cobham
2008 Ten week residency, The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
2007 Papertrails, 12 Month artist residency, Elmbridge Commons, Surrey