Jane is the Producer for Yorkshire Sculpture International, a unique collaboration between Yorkshire’s leading art institutions – Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She leads the project’s development, programme and partnerships.
In summer 2021 the artistic programme featured new commissions by leading sculptors from across Yorkshire – Akeelah Bertram, Claye Bowler, Nwando Ebizie and Ashley Holmes, and international commissions with Ariel René Jackson and Shezad Dawood. For the first Yorkshire Sculpture International Festival in 2019 Jane commissioned and curated public realm sculptures by international artists Ayşe Erkmen and Huma Bhabha in Leeds and Wakefield and presented major sculptures by Damien Hirst outdoors in Leeds.
Since moving to Yorkshire in 2010 Jane has curated a major Joseph Beuys exhibition in partnership with Artist Rooms and Tate, and led the public programme for British Art Show 8 at Leeds Art Gallery. She was previously Director of S1 Artspace, Sheffield and Sculpture Curator for the Arts Council Collection. Between 2004 and 2010 she was Visual Arts Relationship Manager at Arts Council England based in Cambridge. Jane began her career in London in the mid-1990s at Matt’s Gallery and Anthony Reynolds Gallery working with artists including Steve McQueen, Nancy Spero, Nobuko Tsuchiya and Mark Wallinger. She studied on the De Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (1999-2000) and has an MA in History of Art (Post-War British Art) from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She is the Chair of Transform Festival in Leeds and a Trustee of originalprojects; in Great Yarmouth.