The Ugly Construction of Beauty

By admin | July 12, 2014
The Women: 8 Films Digital Film 15:27 2013, The Women, Solo exhibition, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, 2013, Jane Topping.

Here’s a paper that I delivered (remotely) at: MOD ART 13 MODERN ART CONFERENCE on Beauty and Ugliness, 25th to 27th November 2013, Istanbul, Turkey The Ugly Construction of Beauty Jane Topping, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Cumbria, U.K. Keywords: Fine Art, Gender identity, Performance, Appropriation Abstract In film, a woman’s desire…

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The Luck of Edenhall

By admin | July 12, 2014

My contribution to this group exhibition’s publication, 2014. Curated by Linda Fitzgerald. In 1989, when we were both 17 and I had learnt to drive, Ross (my best friend and boyfriend) and I took a trip north. At a seaside village on the west coast of Scotland, we visited a jumble sale in the church…

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The Nabokov Paper

By admin | July 12, 2014

My contribution to The Nabokov Paper book, by Kate Briggs and Lucrezia Russo. Published by information as material.   36Q (6)BLEAK HOUSE Give the structural scheme of Bleak House in terms of its main thematic centers and their interconnecting lines. Outside Bleak House: A Transcript of Sorts (Red on black) London. Westminster Bridge, policeman in the…

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Discordia

By admin | July 11, 2014

I’ve designed a t-shirt. It looks a bit like a totalitarian PE Kit. Is there any other kind? See it here: DISCORDIA presents performance, live music and limited edition t-shirts by twenty contemporary artists involved with Patricia Fleming Projects from the early 90’s to the present. DISCORDIA celebrates the ‘DIY and ‘lo-fi’ approach instrumental to the…

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Peter (2014)

By admin | February 11, 2014
Peter (Screen Shot) Digital film 29:55, 2014, Jane Topping.

“The best Blade Runner sequel is Peter by Jane Topping.” Matt M. Lloyd, Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2017. Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) re-frames what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text and so implying that such radical gestures…

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The Nabokov Paper (2013)

By admin | March 12, 2013
Outside Bleak House Screen Shot, Digital Film 13:22 2013, The Nabokov Paper, The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, Jane Topping.

I made the film Outside Bleak House (13:22) for this show. It’s about spending a summer avoiding reading Dickens’ Bleak House for an exhibition. I worked the film into some artist pages in Kate Briggs’s and Lucrezia Russo’s book, The Nabokov Paper. Thank you Kate, Lucrezia, Prof. Robert Williams, Nick & Simon of information as material and…

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The Women (2013)

By admin | February 11, 2013
The Women: 8 Films Digital Film 15:27 2013, The Women, Solo exhibition, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow, 2013, Jane Topping.

Jane Topping’s solo exhibition The Women references paranoid gothic texts, costume and gender definition to interrogate the power play of relationships. Topping uses repetition and mirroring to highlight the anxiousness that accompanies looking and being looked at. Duty and desire, devotion and decadence are revealed in The Women through a collection of screenprints, collages, drawings…

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There’s Some on her Palm and in the Crook of her Arm (2011)

By admin | November 11, 2011
Pist Protta Issue 71 Jane Topping Artist Pages 2013.

Part of this series of works was the 30 minute video Darklight (2011) made to time for this 30 minute show at Nomi’s Kitchen which I reworked to be a good chunk of Pist Protta Issue 71. You can watch a super-low res version here, though I doubt it was much more resolved at the…

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