Jane Howarth

I graduated in Fashion and Textiles at Winchester School of Art before moving to London. My involvement in the Fashion/Textile industry has been varied, ranging from running my own design company and a stall at Camden market, to designing collections for companies such as BOY, NO!YES? Clones and Artificial eye, in the 80s and early 90s.Since 1994 I have been Head of Fashion and Textiles on the Foundation Course at The University for the Creative Arts. (formerly Kent Institute of Art and Design)Taxidermy sits amongst specimens in formaldehyde, false wooden legs, edwardian dress mannequins and medical teaching torsos in her South London flat.Jane has always been an impulsive collector of taxidermy and the bizarre and curious. This started when visiting a house in her childhood, which was less a house and more a living museum. There were stuffed bears, cabinets of bizarre creatures and strange things in jars. After years of collecting oddities Janes house has become a version of the House museum that inspired her.I am particularly drawn to the reject animals (bloated frogs, scavenger birds, pigmy goats, pickled skinned white rabbits) that nobody buys in car boot sales, auctions or bids for on the Internet. My work is an attempt to tr...

QualificationsWinchester School of Art - Foundation CourseWinchester School of Art - BA Hons Textiles/Fashion. 2:1Winchester School of Art - MA Print/TextilesAwards19811982Exchange programme to Fashion Institute of Technology, New YorkAlans of Duke St Silk AwardEhibitions from 1981 to present dayYoung Blood Barbican, LondonDanceteria Fashion Show, New YorkGraphitti Danceteria, New YorkAvant Garde Fashion, MunichVan Dyke Trust, Battersea, LondonGroup Show, Assembly rooms NorwichStaff Exhibition Maidstone college.Group show, Contact gallery, Norwich.Absolut Secret RCA exhibition LondonEvidence Staff exhibition, Maidstone Museum, KentAbsolut Art RCA Gallery. LondonAbsolute Art RCA Gallery LondonDigital Art George Rodger Gallery MaidstoneIntrusion Round Chapel, LondonGroup Staff Show Gillingham KentObesession Sartorial Contemporary gallery, Kensington, LondonOutrails George Roger Gallery. UCCA, Maidatone, KentIn the loop Maidstone Museum, Maidstone, KentLuna and curious, Brick lane."Bonne Bouche Birds",