Jane Glennie – artist, filmmaker and typographic designer
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Jane Glennie's films have screened at festivals on every continent (except Antarctica). They have won awards and distinctions, including at the International Festival Dona i Cinema (Spain), Women Over 50 Film Festival (UK), Oxford Brookes Poetry Film Competition (UK), and Weimar Poetry Film Competition (Germany). They have been featured by Faber & Faber, www.shondaland.com and at the Southbank Centre. In 2022, she created a film with writer Rosie Garland: Because Goddess Is Never Enough. This project was awarded funding from Arts Council England, and became the pivot of a solo exhibition, Fear & Yearning (and the sliver in between) at CRASSH/University of Cambridge in 2023.

She has presented her work at MIX: Digital Storytelling at the British Library, at the Royal Anthropological Film Conference, and at Radical Repetition: London Conference in Critical Thought.

​She is founder of Peculiarity Press and publisher of ‘A New Dictionary of Art’ and 'Typos: the story of a Reluctant Artwork'. 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; and the Arts Council England funded event Engage with Art.

Selected exhibitions / screenings

2025
Architecture Washing. OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading.
​Cookham Abbey Archaeological Dig, Friends of Cookham Abbey.

2024
Fear & Yearning. Solo screening event. Museum of English Rural Life, UK.
Expanded Librarian: research group, exhibition and symposium, with Wiebke Leister & Beverley Carruthers, Cambridge, UK.
​REELpoetry Festival, Houston TX, USA. (shortlisted for Best in Show prize)
12th International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece.
At the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden.
Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend, Ireland.​
Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival, Wellington, New Zealand.
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2023
Fear & Yearning (and the sliver in between). Solo exhibition: Art at the ARB, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK.
​International Festival Dona i Cinema, Valencia, Spain. (1st prize, Best Video Art)
Mountshannon Arts, Ireland, UK.
Panthessalian Poetry Festival, Greece.
ArtLanguageLocation, TENth, Cambridge, UK.
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales, UK. (Nominated: Poetic. BAFTA-qualifying short film festival)
Mural & Festival - preview event for Bucharest Feminist Film Festival 2023.
Whichcote Society, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
Night, with Toby Martinez de las Rivas & Neda Milenova Mirova, Faber & Faber (online)
ArtArtist Gear Reels, Düsseldorf, Germany.

​2022
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
Earl's Court International Film Festival, London, UK.
Fotogenia International Filmpoetry, & Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico.
Dança em Foco - Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança, Brazil.
10th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Cork, Ireland.
Still Voices Film Festival, Ballymahon, Ireland.
​Bucharest Feminist Film Festival, Invisible Voices, Romania.
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival, UK.
​Filmed Up, Home, Manchester​, UK.
10th International Poetry Film Festival, Athens, Greece.
Women Over 50 Film Festival, UK.
Absurd Art House Film Festival, UK.
Poetry Film in Conversation – Poetry Film Live.
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath, UK.
At the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden.

2021 
Osmosis, Espacio Gallery, London, UK.
​In search of the perfect poetry film, Big Poetry Weekend, online.

2020 
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 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.
Darkside Portside, Portsmouth, UK.
Poetry + Video, ​Ball State University, Indiana, USA.
The Wrong Biennale. Online.
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, 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, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston (2-person exhibition).
Lightup Poole Festival, Dorset.

2017 
Mother Art Prize, Leftovers, Procreate Project, 198 Gallery, London.
Volumes 2017, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland.
TedXBrum Perspectives, Perspectives Zine Library, Birmingham Hippodrome.

2016
PoetryFilm: Paradox, Groucho Club/Hackney Picturehouse, London & Reykjavik, Iceland.
29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, La Friche La Belle De Mai, Marseille, France.
All in One, 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.

2015
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 (2-person exhibition).
aPanopticon, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London.

Commissioned projects

Awards

  • ​International Festival Dona i Cinema, 1st prize Best Video Art
  • ReelPoetry Houston 2024, Judges Notable Entry/shortlisted for Best in Show
  • WOFFF 2022, 3rd Place Audience Choice Award, commended by Judges for Experimental Film Award
  • WomenX Film Festival 2022, Judges Honourable Mention​
  • a-n 2019 Mentoring Bursary
  • Ignition Press / Oxford Brookes Poetry Film competition 2019, prizewinner
  • Weimar Poetry Film Award 2018, Jury Special Mention award
  • Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018, finalist - Best Production One Minute or Under
  • Poole Poetry Film Competition 2018, prizewinner
  • Signature Art Prize 2015, long-list​

Collections

  • John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
  • ​Museum of English Rural Life, Reading

Writing/​Documentation

Workshops / talks / residencies / projects

Education

MA Art & Space (distinction), Kingston University
BA Hons Typography & Graphic Communication, Reading University