Studio Takeover
Jane McCabe
18 June – 18 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.
Documentation
Events
From 1 July to 19 July 2025, McCabe will host a public events programme in which each session will be led by an invited creative, researcher, or thinker. These intimate gatherings will open space for participants reflect, respond, and contribute their own insights. Attendees are welcome to bring texts, questions, or thoughts, fostering a space of mutual exchange and collective exploration to expand our lines of inquiries.
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