Jane Furst
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| Born | 21 July 1944 (age 82) Durban, South Africa |
| 🏳️ Nationality | English |
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| 👩 Spouse(s) | Anton Furst (m. 1968; divorce 1977) Graham Beeching (m. 1979; divorce 1981) Michael Copus (m. 1993; died 2000) |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
| 🏅 Awards | Fellowship Kalaimaiyam 2019 |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Jane Furst (born 21 July 1944) is a contemporary English artist. Her work draws upon an interest in artists from the distant past, for example Northern Renaissance, from whom she borrows images, and also the study of natural form. She has done many etchings and Mezzotints inspired by the drawings and lithographs of Ernst Haeckel. She is interested in showing the monumentality of small things, such as the microscopic Radiolarian discovered by Haeckel.
Biography
Furst's mother is Beryl Gascoigne Hibbert, a poetess and one time campaigner for African rights. Her father is related, on his maternal side, to Elizabeth Ilive, Countess of Egremont. Her father was James Wyndham Hibbert, a businessman and grandson of the architect James Hibbert who designed the Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library in Preston. She is the second of four children born to them. The three others died in infancy from Cystic fibrosis. Furst spent many of her early years in South Africa but was boarding for four years at Waldorf schools in England (Michael Hall, Sussex ) also in Hanover Germany and Paris before returning to South Africa to complete her schooling. In all she went to eight different schools. In 1962 she returned to England for good to go to Hammersmith Art School and spent the greatest part of her adult years in London.
Career
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in Textile Design 1970, Furst received a commission to illustrate the record cover for music inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson; multi- instrumental rock music ( 1972 Charisma Records version ).
Between 1973 and 2007 she was a visiting lecturer in numerous art institutions including Saint Martin's School of Art, London College of Furniture, Middlesex University and Richmond Adult Community College. She frequently taught Colour theory, Measured drawing and Visual research.
In 1972, Furst designed and made costumes for a production at the Queen Elizabeth Hall[1] by the Electric Candle percussion/ theatre group, founded by Meirion Bowen. Her then husband, Anton Furst, was the designer for the show. Jane Furst designed and made costumes for strippers for the choreographer of Raymond Review Bar, Gerard Simi. She later made historical costumes for museum dressed figures.[citation needed]
Whilst a student at the Royal College of Art,[2] Furst developed some avant guard costumes designs for the Insect Play by Karel Čapek. She was inspired to create these by seeing the costume designs of Oskar Schlemmer[3] from the ( Triadic Ballet, Bauhaus) and also the then contemporary choreographer Alwin Nikolais. As she was using insects for her textile ideas this was a natural progression. In her second year at the RCA Furst entered a competition to design some costumes for a Mozart opera to be performed at the college. She did not win the commission but received a commendation from the head of Interior design, Hugh Casson. The committee had liked the designs but thought they might be too challenging for the performers.
In the 1980s, she did a number of cover illustrations for Virago, notably Guests in the Body by Michelene Wandor, and several for The Women's Press, feminist science fiction section.
Since 1988, Furst has had numerous exhibitions of her illustrations and Botanical paintings; at the Barbican Centre in London, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Victoria Art Gallery in Bath and other public and private galleries in Britain and Spain. The two exhibitions at the Barbican Centre were; Secret Gestures in 1988, of Furst's Virago book cover illustrations, and the second was called, Seed Pods, Vessels of New Life in 1993. At Kew Gardens Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Furst was one of three artists in the exhibition called, Seasons of Mists 1995/96. In 2017 she received an Arts Council grant for a major retrospective called By this Hand held across three locations in Rochester Kent.
Between 1999 - 2000 Furst opened and ran a small gallery in Wandsworth (old Town) called, The Studio Gallery. She curated six exhibitions in that time. One was for the artist Di Livey. Her exhibition was called 'Trace Patterns'.
In 2002 a publishing company, called Furst & King, was established by Jane Furst and her daughter Vanessa King. They have printed limited editions of small art books and catalogues and the poetry book, The Three Mysterious Trees, copies of which are lodged at the British Library. One of the art books is on her late husband called ' Michael Copus, Museum Artist'. It was designed by Chrissie Charlton at Chrissie Charlton & Company. Published 2007.
Furst curates ad hoc, for her mother Beryl Gascoigne, the residual portfolio of Joseph Webb's etchings.
From 2007 to the present, Furst has developed her printmaking skills having studied mezzotint under Dorothea Wight and Marc Balakjian at Morley College London and also at Bon A Tirer under Ana Villen in Granada Spain. She now practices printmaking at INTRA Medway Fine Printmakers in Rochester.
Gallery
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Jane Furst whilst a student at the Royal College of Art
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Lawrence of Arabia with his crown of Thorns 1983
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Two Medicago seed pods 1993
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Night Warriors, 2012
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Costume designs for the Insect play by Karel Capek.1970
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Mistress Gaia, Lovelocked.( Earth Goddess) 2016
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Knut, Sky Goddess, 2016 monotype etching
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Jane Furst showing her printing techniques 2014
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Royal Vessel for the Queen, 2016
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Marine Machine
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Pumps, Sea Chimes, Three Royal Vessels
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Watercolour painting of Botanical study of a seed pod using gesso also as background 1999.
References
- ↑ "Queen Elizabeth Hall | Southbank Centre". www.southbankcentre.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ↑ "Home". RCA Website. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ↑ "Oskar Schlemmer | German artist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
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