Jana Emburey

JANA EMBUREY

SWEET OBLIVION 3 - 28 November 2018

Cover: Great Faith (Detail)

Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 110cm

Inside Cover: Transient (Detail) Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 110cm Additional works will be available during the exhibition.

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JANA EMBUREY

SWEET OBLIVION 3 - 28 November 2018

Join us for the opening on Saturday 3rd November from 2-4pm

&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545

JANA EMBUREY Jana Emburey was born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1979. She studied Theatrical Costume Design and Production in Bratislava, Slovakia. Jana moved to Britain in 1997 and in 2012 she completed her BA Hons in Visual Art in North Glasgow College. Subsequently she moved to Caithness where she worked in the St Fergus Gallery in Wick, the Lyth Arts Center as well as working as an artist. In the spring of 2017 Jana started to work as a full time artist and in the summer of the same year she moved to the countryside of the Badenoch and Strathspey area.

Jana’s work mainly explores the concept of time perception, memory, inter-connectivity and human condition. Her work is informed by the close relationship of everything in nature, reflected and replicated in a multitude of ways.

Although she likes to explore various concepts and media, the intricate ink drawings on Japanese paper, sometimes combined with painting is what she has been mostly concentrating on for the past few years, creating a body of work under the name of Sweet Oblivion. These delicate and labour intensive drawings represent humans as well as any other cells/particles found in nature and show the connection of everything around and within us.

The works originally stemmed from the multiplication of microscopic cells, compared to the ever expanding growth of the human race. The titles of these works and the arrangements of the cells often give a clue to the state or behaviour of humans on mass or a grouping and movement of other cells or particles in nature.

Jana has been showing work nationally and internationally for a number of years and her work can be found in many private and corporate collections in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Reflected (diptych) Ink on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 80cm (80 x 40cm each)

Travellers & Breathe Ink on Japanese Kozo, 60 x 60cm

Diffused Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 80cm

Frenzy (diptych) Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo 110 x 160cm (110 x 80cm each)

Drifters, In Waiting & Afloat Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 40 x 40cm

Within a Reach Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 80cm

Expansion Ink on Japanese Kozo, 80 x 80cm

Travellers Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 40 x 40cm

Confined Ink and acrylic on Japanese Kozo, 110 x 80cm

E D U C AT I O N BA Hons Visual Art, (1st Class Honours) 2012 BA Art and Design, 2011 HND Graphic Design, 2001 HNC Multimedia, 2002 Theatrical Costume, Slovakia 1993-1997

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 Sweet Oblivion, &Gallery, Edinburgh 2018 Brown’s Gallery, Tain: Twenty Fifth Anniversary - Twenty Five Artists 2018 RSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh 2017 Art Rooms Four, Ione & Mann, London 2017 Group Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh 2017 RSA Summer Open Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh 2017 Art Rooms, Summer Selection, Ione & Mann, London 2017 Affordable Art Fairs with the Cube Gallery (Brussels, London, New York) 2017 Works on Paper, Cube Gallery, London 2017 Ablaze, Cube Gallery, London 2016/17 Half-Light, monochromatic touring exhibition Oct/Nov 2016, St Fergus Gallery, Wick Jan/ Feb 2017, The Art Gallery in Thurso Library Mar/Apr 2017, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery 2016/17 Works on Paper & Bronze Exhibition, Gallery Different with Vitruvian Arts Consultancy, London 2016 Vedo Corporate Art Exhibition, Gallery Different, London 2016 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 153rd Open Annual Exhibition, Glasgow 2016 FLY 2016, Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh 2016 119th SSA Annual Open Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh 2016 RSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh 2016 Art Rooms, Ione and Mann, London 2016 Converge, Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh 2016 The 118th SSA Annual Open Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh 2015 House for the Art Lover, Glasgow 2015 Empire, curated by Gayle Nelson PSSA and Alan Bond SSA, Montrose 2015 The Cut of Your Jib, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis 2015 ART STAGE Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore 2014 117th SSA Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh 2014 4xFour curated by Canvas Singapore 2013 Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness, Scotland 2012 RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

AWARDS & COLLECTIONS Artwork in collection of Galila Barzilai-Hollander Highland Visual Arts & Craft Award Artwork in a collection Forth Valley College, Stirling University Campus Paintings in a corporate collection of Austrian Investkredit Bank (part of Volksbank AG) Photo credit: John McNaught

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