Studio Takeover Jane McCabe
18 June – 20 July 2025 Fanshaw Projects, London
Jane McCabe is a conceptual artist making photo objects, sculpture, and video projections, concerning the compulsion to record in relation to mortality. Earning her BA in Studio Art and Architecture from Middlebury College 2015, McCabe went on to complete her MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University (2023). Her iterations between mediums form abstracted indexes of experiential time. In one ongoing series, cyanotype photograms on silk of her father's ashes are sensitised at night and printed in daylight. This active light-tracing demands a methodology which is both intuitive and practical. The act of scattering is one of collaboration of the hand wind and silk, where the climatic conditions determine both the formation of ash, and the deep blue time of the exposure. Across this series, repetition becomes habit, invoking ritual.
In a second ongoing series, McCabe perforates and embroiders instant film. Whether embellishment or redaction, this diaristic process is a meditation on the haptic visuality of the photo object as means of giving form to the ephemeral. The everyday subject matter, and the fragmented appearances of other projects in the polaroids, mirror the mosaic forms of McCabe's tapestried video work.
McCabe has exhibited across the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain, and is currently living and working in London. During her studio takeover at Fanshaw projects, McCabe will explore a hybridization of these two ongoing series, expanding her research methodology to include intimate dialogues and reading groups exploring mortality salience. The liminal private/public setting and natural light provide a framework for interplay between textiles, printing, embroidery, sound and tension specific to the site.

Documentation

Jane McCabe, ‘Blue Balloon Radio’, 2025. Installation view, Alice Black Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist. 




Jane McCabe, ‘Blue Balloon Radio’, 2025. Installation view, Alice Black Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist. 
Jane McCabe, ‘Blue Balloon Radio’, 2025. Installation view, Alice Black Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist. 




Jane McCabe, ‘Blue Balloon Radio’, 2025. Installation view, Alice Black Gallery, London. Courtesy of the artist. 

                                              
Jane McCabe, production image, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. 




Jane McCabe, production image, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. 

Events

Studio Takeover Programme:
Friday, 18 July 2025
Listening Session
Sunday, 20 July 2025
Studio Takeover Concludes
During the run of the month, McCabe will welcome the public for Open Studio evenings to share insights into her creative process. For each evening, she has invited an artist, a researcher, a death duola or a sound artist to host an intimate event that expands on the thematic and material concerns of her practice. 

Sessions are free to attend, RSVP is essential, and readings will be shared online in advance and archived afterwards.
For any inquiries, please contact: info@fanshawprojects.com