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Jane Glennie – artist, filmmaker and typographic designer.
Jane Glennie's poetry films have screened at festivals across the world. They have featured on www.shondaland.com and at the Southbank Centre. They have received distinctions and awards at Oxford Brookes Poetry Film Competition (UK), Weimar Poetry Film Competition (Germany), Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (USA), and Poole Poetry Film Competition (UK). She has films in the Book of Hours project (UK), and the Visible Poetry Project (USA). For 2021, she is working on a series of poetry films with author and poet Rosie Garland. This project has been awarded a 'Develop Your Creative Practice' grant from Arts Council England. She is founder of Peculiarity Press and publisher of ‘A New Dictionary of Art’. Previous projects include a commission (with Robert Good) to create the ‘Word Bank of Lost Dialects’ exhibition for The Word National Centre for the Written Word in South Shields; an installation at South Hill Park Arts Centre with over 2,000 recorded visitor interactions; the Arts Council England funded event Engage with Art, an archive-inspired project for International Women's Day and a London 2012 Inspire Mark project with Slough Museum. |
Exhibitions / screenings2020
Camarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, UK. Thuringia Poetry Film Festival, Germany (Winners 2016-2019 showcase) Midwest Poetry Film Festival, Wisconsin, USA. At the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden. Digital Graffiti At Home Campfire Convention Versopolis: Festival of Hope, Slovenia. MicroMania Film Fest, Buffalo, NY, USA. Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle, USA. Lambeth Writers Festival, Clapham, UK. (postponed) Reel Poetry Festival, Houston, Texas, USA. Poetry + Video, The Word National Centre for the Written Word, UK. 2019 8th Athens International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece. Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (selected for Focus UK: State of the Art programme). Poetry + Video, Kino Klub Split, Croatia. Ó Bhéal’s Winter Warmer festival, Cork, Ireland. Poetry + Video, Ball State University, Indiana, USA. The Wrong Biennale. Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Portugal. 7th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Cork, Ireland. New York City Poetry Festival, New York, USA. Centro Cultural Universitario Rogelio Salmona, Manizales, Colombia. Poetry + Video, Murwillumbah, Australia. Full Cadence, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, USA. Bowery Poetry Club, Visible Poetry Project, New York, USA. Newlyn International Film Festival, Newlyn, Cornwall. Word Bank of Lost Dialects, The Word National Centre for the Written Word, South Shields. 2018 7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece. Goethe-Institute, Alexandria, Egypt. Juteback Poetry Film Festival, Colorado, USA. Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018, Worcester, MA, USA. 6th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Cork, Ireland. Video Art Film Club #1, Leyden Gallery, London. Poetry Festival Singapore 2018. New York City Poetry Festival, New York, USA. Weimar Poetry Film Award, Backup Festival, Lichthaus Kino, Weimar, Germany. Reframing the 'Sentimental' in the Art of the Maternal, Desperate Artwives/Platform 1, London. 11th Digital Graffiti Festival, Alys Beach, Florida, USA. Visible Poetry Project 2018, New York & London. Remind Me To Remember, OpenHand Open Space, Reading, Berkshire. South Bank Centre, National Poetry Library Exhibition, London. What is art? One word: 3000 definitions, South Hill Park, Berkshire. Newlyn International Film Festival, Newlyn, Cornwall. Grace Before Meat, International Women's Day event, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston. Lightup Poole Festival, Dorset. 2017 Leftovers, Procreate Project, 198 Gallery, London. Volumes 2017, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland. TedXBrum Perspectives, Perspectives Zine Library, Birmingham Hippodrome. We Need To Talk About Clothes, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham. 2016 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, La Friche La Belle De Mai, Marseille, France. All in One - a Projected Group Show, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Chiari, Italy. Engage, South Hill Park, Berkshire. DIY Cultures, Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London. Uninvited, Degrees of Freedom Collective, various locations in and around London. Worn Threads, National Needlework Archive, Newbury. 2015/16 PoetryFilm: Paradox, Groucho Club/Hackney Picturehouse, London & Reykjavik, Iceland. 2015 Obey, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston. Procreate Project, Women's Art Library, Goldsmith's College, London. Art Language Location, Cambridge. The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London. Chapter 14: the philosophy of the elephant, Gabriel Fine Art, London. ZAP Summer Show, Bond House Gallery, London. Crossbreed: you should have called me Alison, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston. aPanopticon, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London. 2014 Halfway Between, Olympia, London. Duct, Platform Gallery & The Swan, Kingston. 2013 Summer Open, South Hill Park, Berkshire. The Colour Green, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Oxfordshire. Buckinghamshire Open Studios, Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Henley Arts Trail, Shiplake, Oxfordshire. 2012 Feeling the Pressure, Rhyl Arts Centre, Wales. 2011 At Play 3. South Hill Park, Bracknell. Whatever floats your boat, Slough Museum, Slough. All that remains, ReOrsa, MoreArts, Wokingham. 2010 Ideas Bank, Slough Museum, Slough. Discard:Salvage, RISC, Reading. Solo exhibition. 2009 ReOpen, The Kube/The Lighthouse Centre for the Arts, Poole, Dorset. Art on Broadway, ReOrsa, Bracknell, Berkshire. 2008 The Thin Blue Line, Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands. |
Commissioned projectsBecause Goddess is never enough, 2021 – awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England – to make a series of poetry films in collaboration with author and poet Rosie Garland
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Education
MA Art & Space (distinction), Kingston University
BA Hons Typography & Graphic Communication, Reading University
BA Hons Typography & Graphic Communication, Reading University