Jane Eppel

Jane Eppel was born in Cape Town in 1979.  Majoring in printmaking, in 2001 she received a B.A. in Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. In her final year at Michaelis she created a series of cabinets using old, abandoned window frames. This work explored personal geography and the character of memory, intersecting Eppel's own story with "lost histories". The next few years spent working and travelling through Asia would ultimately form the basis of Eppel's first solo exhibition. Prior to that she participated in the UCT exhibition Curiosity CLXXV in 2004. That same year she was selected as a finalist for the Brett Kebble Awards for her painting Barking Orders. Her first solo exhibition finally was realized in May 2006 with Orient'ation: bearing East at the Irma Stern Museum. This exhibition was a reflection of the artist's travels from Mumbai to Kyoto as seen through a series of evocative, meditative paintings. The following year Eppel showed a series of ten copperplate etchings, entitled In the Wings, as part of the group exhibition Print '07 at Bell-Roberts Lourensford. Eppel then created a series of six large botanical copperplate etchings, Cape Point Prayer, for another 2007 group exhibition at Bell-Roberts Lourensford - Greenhouse. Jane Eppel's second solo exhibition, Sanctum, presented at Bell-Roberts in March 2008 explores notions of homecoming, roots/routes, and hallowed space through personal iconography.  Jane Eppel lives and works in Cape Town.