Jane Théau
Jane Théau’s art practice encompasses sculpture and installation, collaboration with performers, curation, and the facilitation of community art projects. She works with media as weighty and permanent as bronze and as ephemeral as performance but returns always to that most tactile medium: textiles. Jane completed a PhD on textiles and tactility in contemporary art at the Australian National University and has a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Technology Sydney. She is the founder of Textiles Sydney, past President of the Willoughby Art Centre and a sustainability activist. Awards Jane has received include the Australian Design Centre Award, the Rookwood Sculpture Prize, the Grace Cossington Smith Early Career Award and residencies at Hill End and Bundanon. Her lace portraits featured onstage in Sue Healey’s On View: Panorama Suite which toured Japan, Sydney and Hong Kong in 2020-21.