Jane Glennie
Because Goddess is Never Enough
Digital photograph composite
2022
Inspired by dancer and choreographer Tilly Losch, who was at the peak of her fame in the 1920s and 1930s. Being a goddess of stage, screen, and Vogue magazine was not enough to give a woman credibility, independence or a well remembered creative legacy. Women have come a long way in 100 years, but still not far enough.
A multi-disciplinary artist, I work in film, books and installation.
I make films composed from thousands of my own original photographs alongside images from archives and historical collections, digitally layered and collaged together. I am drawn to texture and history, often using macro photography to see the detail in surfaces. Layering is important to me – images with images and soundscapes with language. The visual result is visually rich and painterly.
I am interested in the transformation from media to media. For example, making films from photographs, books from films and films from books.
Theme-wise, I am interested in the complexity of female identities – asking questions about the biographies of women who fall into the footnotes, lost from history as so many women’s stories are, seen only through a patriarchal lens, illuminating and reclaiming women’s stories. Ongoing, is an interest in the borders between fiction and reality – something that begins with reality: a real person or place turns into a semi-fiction, or a fiction that becomes something real.
Bio:
MA Art & Space, Kingston School of Art
Jane Glennie’s films have screened at festivals across the world, featured on www.shondaland.com and at the Southbank Centre. They have received distinctions and awards at WOFFF (UK), Oxford Brookes Poetry Film Competition (UK), Weimar Poetry Film Competition (Germany), Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival (USA), and Poole Poetry Film Competition (UK). In 2021-22, she created a poetry film with author and poet Rosie Garland. ‘Because Goddess is Never Enough’ which was awarded funding from Arts Council England, and has been selected for festivals, including Berlin, Mexico City, Valencia, Cork, Manchester, Lewes, Bucharest and London. In 2023 she will have a solo show at Art at the ARB, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK.
