a work in progress
Jane Brettle
Publication data:
A 168 page publication with 161 full colour and black and white images.
Dimensions 265mm x 210mm Portrait.
ISBN Softback 978-1-7394161-8-8
ISBN Hardback 978-1-7394161-7-1
Published by Studies in Photography Edinburgh March 2026.
This Monograph brings together a series of interconnected projects that span site-based works and evocative portraits. Through these works, Brettle explores the ways in which our environment - shaped by history, industry, and memory - continues to define and re-define us.
Working across still and moving image, as well as text, Brettle’s practice traces cycles of disruption, erosion, and regeneration. Her current focus turns toward borders and thresholds - the shifting edges of land and sea -
inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility and resilience of place.
With an introductory overview essay by Alice Bain writer/editor. Curator of artist space Mote102 Leith, Edinburgh. Previously, founding editor of MAP magazine, editor at The List magazine, contributor to titles including the Herald, Guardian, specialist art magazines.
mote102.com
An essay on the artist’s current work by Dr Nicky Bird Artist/writer. Previously Reader in Contemporary Photographic Practice at Glasgow School of Art, co-coordinator of the GSA’s Reading Landscape research group. Recent published writings include contributions to Visual Culture in Britain, Flat Time House, Routledge, Transcript Verlag.
nickybird.com
With excerpts from relevant essays previously published in the artist’s catalogues and books by Professor Reina Lewis: Art historian and author. Currently Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts, London.
researchers.arts.ac.uk/579-reina-lewis
Professor Joanna Woodall: Art historian and Professor Emeritus in the visual and material culture of the Low Countries in 16th and 17th century Europe at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
courtauld.ac.uk/people/joanna-woodall/
Professor Christine Battersby: FRSA British philosopher and Reader Emerita in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Previously visiting Fleishhacker Chair of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco during April 2013.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/battersby/
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