Jane's thread works/sculptures are the result of her conceptual responses to events highlighting/exposing the fragility of the human condition.
Her artistic explorations focus on ways in which we are dichotomously connected and disconnected - whether this be globally, individually, historically, internally, or by time, memory and/or communication.
She often works using wool, fishing line and thread/yarn, often using finger-knitting as a process. To Jane the finger knitted process embodies a primitive methodology, leaving her DNA on the sculpture as she works; she often uses this to reinforce the sense of trace to historical ancestors which - by default - adds to our collective responsibility for the past.
However, she also works in metal and hard materials, often combining the soft/fragile with unforgiving materials
In her sculptural works Jane can be described as a process artist, using repetitive ways of making in creating the resulting artwork.
"I get my inspiration from a variety of sources - the news, books, major events, academic research, conversation, history, landscape, geography - basically anything and everything that connects to people.
When I finally work on something I nearly always have an intent behind the work. I can be quite anal about things, for example the lengths or colours of threads or the shapes can often have mathematical, historical, global or sociological reasoning behind them. Some works have a sense of sadness behind them - I guess this is due to the focus of my work being on human frailty, but sometimes I am also poking fun at something."