About Me
I was born in London in 1960. I went to St. Martins College of Art 1978-82, and got a first class degree in fine art. While I was there she started the Neo Naturist performance art group with Christine and Jennifer Binnie, working with artists including Grayson Perry, Micael Clark Dance Company, Leigh Bowery, Andrew Logan and Derek Jarman, performing at venues ranging from the Spanish Anarchist Centre to the Royal Opera House.
I've lived and worked in London, Oaxaca Mexico, Dingle in Ireland Guéthary/Biarritz, and Eastbourne and had numerous solo painting shows in UK and internationally. My travel memoir Surf Mama was published in 2011.
1980s
St. Martins, Neo Naturists, first shows,hitch hiking, nightclubs, escape to Mexico.
Places: London, Soho, Rome, Iceland, Lappland, Oaxaca (87-88)
Shows: B2 Gallery Neo Naturist Live in (1982), first solo show new Gallery Crouch End (1983), James Birch Gallery(1985)
Performance: Wapping beach, Heaven, Taboo, Spanish Anarchist Centre, Glastonbury, Royal Opera House.
1990s
Ireland, marriage, children, Ballydavid studio, road trips, earth mother, scuba diving
Places ; Dingle peninsula, Bavaria, Oaxaca, Portugal, Spain, Basque country
Shows: Spitalfields Heritage Centre, The Irish Club, London, Susan Callery Dingle , London, Lauderdale House, Academy Club
2000s
Guéthary, surf, divorce, mamas Surf Club
Places: Biarritz, Guéthary, San Sebastian, Oaxaca, London
Shows: London: Oddyart , Highgate Gallery, France: Chateau de Sacy, Picardy, Heteroclito, Guéthary, Palais Thermal, Biarritz
Neo Naturists: Last of the British Underground, ICA
'The Neo Naturists' Jane England
2010s
Surf Mama, Guéthary, book tour, empty nest, return to London, rejoining Neo Naturists
Places: Guéthary, London, Ballydavid Annapurna
Shows: Jazz the Glass, Biarritz. Gallery 269 London
Neo Naturists: Retrospective Studio Voltaire 2016 inc A Night with the Neo Naturists at ICA, Alternative Miss World Globe Theatre 2014, 2018
Neo Naturist Masterclass hayward Gallery 2012, Port Eliot festival 2017
2020s
Tate Gallery, country life, hip replacement, living on a boat, London
Places: London, Jevington, Athens, Xania, Scottish highlands
Shows: Highgate Gallery, London, Stash Gallery, London
Neo Naturists: Women in Revolt! Tate Britain(2023), Re/Sister Barbican (2023), Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool (2022) Globe theatre Alternative Miss World, Tate Gallery naked lecture (2024)
