My practice moves through translation as both method and metaphor. Working across sculpture, printmaking, sound, text and moving image, I explore how meaning shifts as it is carried between materials, languages and forms. Recent research has centred on translating the short stories of my late grandfather, Bogusław Sławomir Kunda, whose writing on Soviet-occupied Poland, memory and family history has become a way of navigating questions of inheritance, nostalgia and transnational identity.
I am interested in attentive forms of listening and looking — in the decisions involved in what is kept, omitted or transformed through processes of translation. My work often begins with close technical or material investigation, using sound, engraving, print processes and digital manipulation to examine the surface of things and the infrastructures beneath them. Influenced by ideas around Deep Listening, narrative fragmentation and “surface as method”, I approach artworks as spaces where meaning is accumulated slowly: partial, unstable and shaped by the viewer’s own experiences.
Alongside studio practice, collaboration and dialogue remain central to my work. I see artistic practice as something embedded within communities, conversations and shared acts of support.
Enquiries and studo visits always welcome.
︎ Email
︎ @janeknixon
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Cheapside, Hypha Studios, No.1 Poultry, Bank, London
LAS Begins, LAS, Deptford, London
BUILD/FOUND, MAKE. CONCEAL/HIDE/KEEP SAFE. PUT TOGETHER, COMPOSE., Hypha Studios, Hackney Downs, London
The Floor Is Lava, Bow Arts Residency, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Collaborative Curatorial Project with India Standbra & Rachel Mortlock
2024
MKT PLC, Plop Residency, Bethnal Green, London
2022
The Worm at The Core, Set Woolwich, Woolwich, London
Testing Grounds, Filet , Hoxton, London
Collaborative Curatorial Project with India Standbra, Hsi-Nong Huang & Rachel Mortlock
Systems We Have, New Art Projects, Bethnal Green, London
2021
Bambi Woods Presents, ERGO Collective/Space 52, Athens
Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending, Deptford, London
2020
Building on the One Preceding, Set Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London
Emit, Set Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London
Biscuits Go Crunch & The Frequency Band Screening, Hoxton 253, Hoxton, London //
co-curated with Andrew Pierre Hart as Liquin
From This Place We Root, Proposition Studios, Peckham, London
A Sight Of, co-curated with Ali Glover, Proposition Studios, Peckham, London
My Horse Ate Your Crocodiles Tooth And Scratched Its Back On A Metal Slab, Madron St, Peckham, London
2019
Units of Measure, Take Courage Gallery, New Cross, London
Transformations, End of the Line, Aarhus, Denmark
Collaboration with Mike McShane, Text As, Campbell Works, Stoke Newington, London
Liquin, Hoxton 253, Hoxton, London
2018
Liquin, Absinthe, Bermondsey, London
Liquin, House of Vans, Waterloo, London
Doin’ Time, Old Deptford Police Station, Deptford, London
Video Funk Poetry 3, RCA, Kensington, London
2017
FUZE, The Yard, Vauxhall, London
Liquin, Video Funk Poetry 1 and Tate Exchange, London
2016
Collaboration with Andrew Hart, Translations II, Chelsea College of Art, Pimlico, London
Hot August Nights/On the Distant Horizon, BLAm, Los Angeles
Draft, Collaboration with Callum Cocker, Safehouse 2, Peckham, London
Let The Dust Settle, Crypt Gallery, London
Chelsea College of Art Degree Show, Pimlico, London
Kino Exchange, Spike Island Studios, Bristol
2015
Translations, Chelsea College of Art, Pimlico, London
Lost Cache, Apiary Studios, Bethnal Green, London
2014
Process, Campbell Works Gallery, Stoke Newington, London
Temporary Waves,Thames shoreline, Wapping, London
2013
Interim, Cookhouse Space, Chelsea, London
Manchester School of Art Foundation Show, Chatham Building, Manchester
PUBLICATIONS
2015, Diagram Publication, edited by Rhiannon Moxham & Polly Welsby, London
2015, Lost Cache Publication, Edited by Janek Nixon, Design by Hattie Wade, London
AWARDS
Shortlist South Kiosk Award 2016
Nominated Jonathan Harvey Studio Award 2016
EDUCATION
2025-2027 MFA, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands
2013-2016 BA, Chelsea College of Art, United Kingdom
2012-2013 Foundation, Manchester School of Art, United Kingdom
Resume available upon request.
2025
Cheapside, Hypha Studios, No.1 Poultry, Bank, London
LAS Begins, LAS, Deptford, London
BUILD/FOUND, MAKE. CONCEAL/HIDE/KEEP SAFE. PUT TOGETHER, COMPOSE., Hypha Studios, Hackney Downs, London
The Floor Is Lava, Bow Arts Residency, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Collaborative Curatorial Project with India Standbra & Rachel Mortlock
2024
MKT PLC, Plop Residency, Bethnal Green, London
2022
The Worm at The Core, Set Woolwich, Woolwich, London
Testing Grounds, Filet , Hoxton, London
Collaborative Curatorial Project with India Standbra, Hsi-Nong Huang & Rachel Mortlock
Systems We Have, New Art Projects, Bethnal Green, London
2021
Bambi Woods Presents, ERGO Collective/Space 52, Athens
Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending, Deptford, London
2020
Building on the One Preceding, Set Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London
Emit, Set Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London
Biscuits Go Crunch & The Frequency Band Screening, Hoxton 253, Hoxton, London //
co-curated with Andrew Pierre Hart as Liquin
From This Place We Root, Proposition Studios, Peckham, London
A Sight Of, co-curated with Ali Glover, Proposition Studios, Peckham, London
My Horse Ate Your Crocodiles Tooth And Scratched Its Back On A Metal Slab, Madron St, Peckham, London
2019
Units of Measure, Take Courage Gallery, New Cross, London
Transformations, End of the Line, Aarhus, Denmark
Collaboration with Mike McShane, Text As, Campbell Works, Stoke Newington, London
Liquin, Hoxton 253, Hoxton, London
2018
Liquin, Absinthe, Bermondsey, London
Liquin, House of Vans, Waterloo, London
Doin’ Time, Old Deptford Police Station, Deptford, London
Video Funk Poetry 3, RCA, Kensington, London
2017
FUZE, The Yard, Vauxhall, London
Liquin, Video Funk Poetry 1 and Tate Exchange, London
2016
Collaboration with Andrew Hart, Translations II, Chelsea College of Art, Pimlico, London
Hot August Nights/On the Distant Horizon, BLAm, Los Angeles
Draft, Collaboration with Callum Cocker, Safehouse 2, Peckham, London
Let The Dust Settle, Crypt Gallery, London
Chelsea College of Art Degree Show, Pimlico, London
Kino Exchange, Spike Island Studios, Bristol
2015
Translations, Chelsea College of Art, Pimlico, London
Lost Cache, Apiary Studios, Bethnal Green, London
2014
Process, Campbell Works Gallery, Stoke Newington, London
Temporary Waves,Thames shoreline, Wapping, London
2013
Interim, Cookhouse Space, Chelsea, London
Manchester School of Art Foundation Show, Chatham Building, Manchester
PUBLICATIONS
2015, Diagram Publication, edited by Rhiannon Moxham & Polly Welsby, London
2015, Lost Cache Publication, Edited by Janek Nixon, Design by Hattie Wade, London
AWARDS
Shortlist South Kiosk Award 2016
Nominated Jonathan Harvey Studio Award 2016
EDUCATION
2025-2027 MFA, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands
2013-2016 BA, Chelsea College of Art, United Kingdom
2012-2013 Foundation, Manchester School of Art, United Kingdom
Resume available upon request.