Jane Prophet: Statement

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Image of the artists and her work, Souvenir of England 2007

In the past, drawing on the interests outlined, I have made works such as The Landscape Room, and Decoy, both of which analyse and re-present the structure of the English oak, and of the English landscape. Both these works utilise bespoke computer programming and fractal mathematics from which I ‘grow’ virtual trees and change the appearance of hitherto familiar National Trust parklands.

Model Landscapes, extends this theme by moving from two-dimensional still images and animations, to produce a series of vignettes. The Model Landscape vignettes are “model” in terms of being “ideal” and at the same time, “scaled-down”. To make these works, I used a combination of old and new media, combining rapid prototyping techniques, whereby I took my own three-dimensional computer data and made small trees from the fractal mathematics, to hand-cut books, where tree structures popped up from the pages.
Image of he artist wearing face mask, covered in flocking dust.

Image of he artist wearing face mask, covered in flocking dust.

Flocking the tree for Souvenir of England

Souvenir of England references our Englishness and the nostalgia we sometimes feel for the loss of native flora and fauna due to changes in agricuktural policy and practices and climate change.

For more on these, and other works, please use the artworks link below.

Most of my art works, in whatever media, are influenced by my interest in the physical structure of objects (the growth structure of trees, the shape of the human heart, the particular spatial qualities of a building).

I'm equally interested in the way that these familiar objects and places feature in our social and economic landscape: how we use them as symbols (the oak tree becomes shorthand for “Englishness”; the heart symbolises “Love”; landmark buildings both past and present are presented as signs of affluence, regeneration and “Progress”).

The third underlying element in most of my works is my interest in exploring new materials, new technologies and new engineering processes.

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