Practica #2

Jane Buyers works with sculpture in a variety of materials including wood, bronze and terracotta, and in a variety of sizes including public outdoor works. Her practice also includes drawing and printmaking. Her work juxtaposes cultural artifacts with nature: “My interest is not in nature as "natural" but in nature as the site of complex, contradictory processes of manipulation and idealizations expressive of a desire to be connected, to make order, to find a pattern…My work always evokes human presence through surrogates. For a number of years I have been working with references to books and tools. Earlier references have included clothing and architecture. The objects that I make reflect a history of their own making.” Jane was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002. Her work is in many private and public collections including Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Maclaren Art Centre in Barrie. Buyers is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Waterloo.