Curriculum Vitae – Jane Foale

Qualifications and Education

• BA Fine Art, Leeds College of Art, 2010
• HE Certificate in Contemporary Art Practice, University of Leeds, 2005
• PG Diploma in Business Administration, University of Bradford, 1996
• BA Hons. Sociology, Durham University, 1973

Courses and personal research have been undertaken at the University of Leeds’ Departments of Earth Sciences and Colour Chemistry, and at the Colour Museum in Bradford.

Residencies and other Projects

• Collaborative project in the Coniston Copper Mines Valley, Cumbria with the Ruskin Museum and Cumbrian Amenity Trust Mining History Society. April 2011 – November 2012.
• Visiting Artist at Killhope - the North of England Lead Mining Museum, Co. Durham. May 2009 – May 2012.
• The minerals and landscape of the Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. January – December 2009.
• Artist in Residence, Killhope – the North of England Lead Mining Museum, Co. Durham. May 2008 – May 2009.
• Residency, Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, W. Yorkshire. October 2006 – May 2008.

Exhibitions

Solo

• 2012 ‘Copper Bottomed’. Ruskin Museum, Coniston, Cumbria.
• 2011 ‘Hand over Hand’. Penrith Museum, Penrith, Cumbria.
• 2010 ‘Matrix’. The Butterfly Rooms, Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
• 2010 ‘From Time to Time’. Killhope Lead Mining Museum, Co. Durham.
• 2009 ‘From Time to Time’. McGuinness Gallery, Bishop Auckland Town Hall, Co. Durham. (Curator with other invited artists)
• 2009 ‘Time’s Cycle: minerals and landscape of the Caldbeck Fells and North Pennines’. Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria.
• 2008 ‘Molecules. Minerals. Matter’. Killhope Lead Mining Museum.
• 2007/8 ‘Molecules. Minerals. Matter’. Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire.
• 2002 Leeds Trinity & All Saints (University of Leeds), Leeds.

Group

• 2013 ‘Empty Spaces’. Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley, Nr. Leeds.
• 2013 ‘PaintFest’. Florence Mine Arts Centre, Egremont, West Cumbria.
• 2011 Headingley Arts Trail, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
• 2010 Headingley Arts Trail, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
• 2008 ‘REALISE’. The Art House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
• 2007 5th Annual Speleological Art Exhibition, South Australia.
• 2006 ‘Objects in Waiting’. Sheffield Hallam University.
• 2003 ‘Day of the Dead Singer’. Marni Gallery, Hartlepool.

Other

• Featured artist on Winsor & Newton’s website.
• Featured on BBC Radio, in the Yorkshire Post and on the Lake District National Park Authority website.
• Member of The Art House.
• Member of The Russell Society.