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Jane Ostler

Colchester
In retrospect it is easy to edit out all the difficulties and want to forget them. But being stuck and trying to work through them is a recurrent theme. Comfort. Shortage of time. Wrong priorities

I like to work on the borders between representation and indecipherability. Sense and non-sense, meaning and non-meaning, finding order in chaos and chaos in order; crossing geographical and emotional borders.

 

On the pebbles

Queen Street Portrait Mother & Baby

Air Purifying Plant: Peace Lily

La Pêcheuse, The Fisherwoman

Don, Doff, Sleep, Repeat

Sunshine

Circle Time, Fainting in the Science Lab

Mops, Mums & Mickey

Look Out

Moving to the country

Seven squares on a wall, table and floor

Seven or eight squares

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Highlights: 21 - 27 October, 2024

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Highlights: 9 - 15 June, 2025

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