Artist Bio (2025)
Jane Forrest (b. 2005) is an artist and curator based between New York City and Toronto. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Her practice explores labor as a form of endurance, employing labor-intensive processes across a range of mediums to examine themes of memory, endurance, and history. She has exhibited her work at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Royal Ontario Museum. She has an upcoming solo exhibition Gentle Enough to Hold at Gagné Contemporary in July 2025.
Jane wishes to thank The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for its financial support.
My work functions as a love letter to the life around me. Using subject matter sourced from communities and family history: studio buildings, handwritten letters and shadows, time is used as a medium to connect to the world. Through perspective, movement and light, my work reconstructs the world through my eyes. Utilizing oil painting as a form of preservation: my work can give me proof that I’m here and that I’ll leave something behind. The fragility of falling buildings, disappearing shadows, and fading handwriting is overcome.
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