There are two main categories to Jane’s work.

The ‘White Suit’ Sculptures ... this work developed after earlier training as a fashion designer. Each animated sculpture is individually made. The steel framed core is built up by layering soft materials, the top suit is hardened and painted to give an egg shell finish.

The Perspex Cases ... these conceptual pieces combine photography and text pristinely set inside acrylic boxes.  The photographs taken by Jane are of the contemporary buildings that are now a strong feature of the City’s changing landscape. The text is sourced from financial journals, and by using puns – an efficient and economic use of language – they give humour and insight, probing the powers-that-be.

'Jane Goodwin's art is orientated towards investigating, highlighting and echoing the multi-faceted reality and shenanigans of 'Life in the City'. A conceptual artist armed with sharp wit,concise snappy puns and dry humour, she mirrors the suave yet bitter intellectual settings and mental overdrive of business practice.

Goodwin's art focuses as much on the people as the systems within the environment of 'The Square Mile'. She is interested in the people who work in the financial world - from the highly paid Prop Trader, with their frantic edginess, to the general worker whose anonymous group identity lays bare those stark moments of personal recognition'.

Quote from THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY exhibition at ETC Venues