Artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, and sculptures and installations incorporating her drawings, designs products and is. This inspired jane to use biro as her preferred drawing medium and ultimately create. Artist hopes sunderland and newcastleinspired tshirts. Artist, jane lee mccracken founded drawing for endangered species workshops in partnership with born free, international wildlife charity, in 2014 to share her passions for biro drawing and. Her work explores loss generated by human destruction and is representational of both lifes beauty and brutal reality. Jane mccracken sweet mug has been added to your cart. Published today, i am delighted to say that 50 limited edition copies of my new book are now available. Summary artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, sculptures, installations and designs products. The exhibition holds an interesting and varied range of drawings and i most enjoyed the work of artist jane lee mccracken. Lee has a bachelor of fine arts degree and a diploma in fashion from lasalle college of the arts in singapore. This artist constructs intricate and complex biro drawings in layers which are sold as original drawings. We both love football and my husband is a big newcastle fan, said jane, who is. Her art is inspired by memories, fairy tales, russia and eastern europe, forests, animals and her continuing interest in war and loss.
Saatchi art is pleased to offer the art print, elephant hawk moth british moth throw, by jane lee mccracken. Born in edinburgh, jane constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, sculptures and installations incorporating her drawings and designs products. Artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, and sculptures and installations incorporating her drawings. Artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings and sculptures and installations incorporating her drawings. In 2014, jane lee mccracken founded drawing for endangered species workshops in corporate partnership with international wildlife charity born free, to share her passions for biro drawing and wildlife. The principal venue for his sales was the hungry i, a comedy club in san francisco. A recent addition to her fine english china collection in homage to the last great carnivores of eurasia, janes mug designs feature her. Born in edinburgh, her art practice explores loss to both humans and animals generated by human destruction and is representational of. After finishing the crossword jane s grandmother would often draw beautiful women in the margins of the newspaper for her, using a ballpoint pen.
An exhibition of north east school childrens drawings working with artist, jane lee mccracken 20 june 21 july and the endangered species conference, 22 june, both held at thought foundation and supported by international wildlife charity born free foundation, with will travers obe, president and cofounder. He is on the council of the chelsea arts club and has recently been appointed. She currently resides in napa county, california, with her daughter jane and soninlaw don swigert. Artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, and sculptures and installations incorporating her drawings, designs products and is founder of where did all the animals go. Find art for sale at great prices from artists including paintings, photography, sculpture, and prints by top emerging artists like jane lee mccracken. Jane lee mccracken artist jane lee mccracken linkedin. South tynesidebased artist jane lee mccracken uses only a black biro to create intricate, layered. Can you tell us a bit about how you got started as an artist and your journey so far. Jane lee mccracken s drawing a spoonful of laika, depicts laika sitting in the bowl of a russian khokhloma wooden painted spoon from jane s russian artefact collection. I contacted people with the idea but got no interest. Artist and designer jane lee mccracken, founder of drawing for endangered species workshops, hosted a workshop where did all the animals go. Laikas innocent stance represents the unknowing sacrifice she would make for human gains during the space race. Artist jane lee mccracken has designed six exquisite finest english bone china mugs as little pieces of art in functional form. Arts london jacky tsai james freeman gallery jamie hewlett jane.
Singapore born artist, jane lee, has up until now been best known for her relentless interrogation of the very notion of painting. Eventbrite jane lee mccracken presents northumbrian wildlife biro drawing. Red riding hoods cloak, 2012, by jane lee mccracken detail of cloak pattern once made, the drawings were then scanned, printed on to transfer paper and cut out individually by hand, ironed onto calico, creating a unique fabric, then the fabric was cut out and sewn together to form the cloak. Jane lee mccracken, artist of intricate multilayered biro drawings and artwork exploring loss through human destruction. Artist jane lee mccracken with her newcastle and sunderland inspired tshirt designs. Gct jazz club presents minnie fraser quartet tickets. Artist, jane lee mccracken founded drawing for endangered species workshops in partnership with born free, international wildlife charity, in 2014 to. Born in edinburgh, artist jane lee mccracken has been making drawings for as long as she can remember. Artist and designer jane lee mccracken, founder of drawing for endangered species workshops, will host an art workshop where did all the animals go. Biro drawing workshop with jane lee mccracken youtube. Meet the artist raising thousands for safc charity, december 2018. Dave white david gwinnutt david koppel david mccracken david orme david.
Next derby day in newcastle with the toon army street food at the grainger market. The simplicity of picking up a biro and drawing complex works of art not only on paper, but also on objects, is. Session 1 sunday, 1 march 2020 at robinsongay art gallery, northumberland, england. Jane lee has won numerous awards, including a celeste prize for painting in 2011. Her work is impassioned by childhood memoirs, fairy tales, forests, wildlife, films and documentaries. After studying painting at duncan of jordanstone collage of art in dundee, he settled in the northeast of scotland to pursue his first love of printmaking. Little red riding hoods cloak smashing the stereotypes. Leanna moran lee wagstaff lena goodison liam mertens liat anan. Artist jane lee mccracken constructs intricate multilayered biro drawings, sculptures, installations and designs products. In a recent series of work, lee approximated the form of a painting but refused to use canvas. Sweet is presented on the front of the mug and continues onto the inside.
She was a finalist for the 2007 sovereign asian art prize and was the first recipient of the singapore art exhibition international residency prize in 2007. Animals come to life at jane mccrackens drawing 021820. Sweet mug a stunning mug with a design taken from the collection in homage to the last great carnivores of eurasia. Jane lee challenges what qualifies as a painting by using unorthodox materials, tools, and processes in her art. Keane is an american artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes.
Jane lee mccracken realism brio artist homegirl london. If your walls are looking dull and blank, its time to treat yourself to a collection of art. This artist constructs intricate and complex biro drawings in layers which are sold as original drawings, sculptures directly drawn on in biro, limited edition prints and fine bone china plates her work explores powerful subject matter such as the human condition of war, destruction and the resulting loss for all. Part of artist, jane lee mccrackens where did all the animals go. Her work explores loss to both humans and animals generated by human destruction and is representational of both lifes beauty and brutal reality. In 2014 artist, jane lee mccracken founded drawing for endangered species workshops in partnership with international wildlife charity born free, to share her passions for biro drawing and. Since 2012 jane has delivered biro drawing workshops to hundreds of people of all ages across the north east and beyond. Experimenting with innovative techniques, materials and tools, lee has played with the construction of painting to produce sumptuous and tactile abstract works that often merge two into three dimension. Scottish artist jane lee mccracken makes intricate multilayered biro drawings. Artist exploring loss generated by human destruction, designer, founder of drawing for.
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