Biography

Janine Hall was born in South Africa and spent her early life in Uganda and Botswana.  Having grown up in a house overlooking Lake Victoria, boarding school overlooking the North Sea and currently not far from the River Thames she has a love of  light, shadows, reflections and fleeting moments often attached to observations of the abstract in the world around her. 

Lives and works in London.

Instagram
@janine_hall_j9 … Paintings and drawings
@janinehallphotography … Photography
@janinehall1948 … Life drawings

Education

Turps Banana
Correspondence Course 2022-2023
Correspondence Course 2020-2021
Correspondence Course 2018-19

Wimbledon College of Art
MA Drawing - Distinction, Part time mode
2015 -2017
Awarded the Marcus Beale Architect's
Drawing Prize

Wimbledon College of Art
BA Fine Art Painting - First Class Honours
Part-time mode, 2009-2015

Royal College of Art
MARCA Graphic Design, 1977-1979

Hornsey College of Art
BA Graphic Design, 1974-1977
RSA Bursary 1975 - Awarded first prize 

Brighton College of Art
Foundation 1973-1974

Selected Exhibitions and Residencies

Painting Open - No Format Gallery
December 2024 - Group Show

Side by Side - No Format Gallery
November 2024 - HB Drawing Group Show

Layers - The Department Store 
October 2024 - Unprimed Collective Group show

Cefn Maen Fach, Wales
July 2024 -  Group drawing residency

Drawing Open - No Format Gallery
May 2024 - Group Show

Lick - The Safehouse
April 2024 - Turps CC Group Show

'What If I ...' - Kaleidoscope Art Gallery
October 2023 - HB Drawing Group show 

Do Not Swallow - The Safehouse
September 2023 - Turps CC Group Show

Drawing is Free 10 year celebration
Paris School of Art 
Group show - June 2023

Cortona Drawing Residency
May/June 2023 - Group residency

Somewhere In-Between - East Cliff House
May 2023 - Group Show

Drawing Open - No Format Gallery
May 2023 - group show

Art and the River Deben - Fen Ditton Gallery
October 2022 - Group show

Oysterland - No Format Gallery
August 2022 - HB Drawing group show

Mawddach Group Residency
HB Drawing Group - May/June 2022

Drawing Open - No Format Gallery
May 2022 - Group show

Deben Soundings - Artspace
April 2022 - Group show

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog
Turps Correspondence Course (2020/2021)
November 2021 - Online Group show

Timeframe - No Format Gallery
September 2021 - HB Drawing Group Show

No Format Painting Open
September 2021 - Group show

The Black Barn
August 2021 - HB Drawing Group show

Federation of British Artists
Figurative Art Now - July 2021, Online group show

Society of Women Artists
September 2020 - online Group show

The Art of Isolation
July 2020 - Group Show

Found in Translation
July 2020 - HB Drawing Group online show
www.foundintranslation.wordpress.com

Derwent Drawing Prize
April 2020 - Online group show

The Pastel Society - The Mall Gallery
February 2020 - Group show

Thinking Graphite - Drawing Projects UK
December 2019 and January 2020 - Group show

No Format Painting Open 2019
December 2019 - Group show

Snapshot - No Format Gallery
September 2019 - Group Show

Viarco Pencil Factory Residency
July 2019 - Thinking through Graphite,
Group residency

Drawing Breath
April 2019 - Drawing and Mindfulness workshop

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2019 - The Mall Gallery March 2019 - Group show

SFSA Painting Open - No Format Gallery and Deptford Does Art December 2018 - Group show

ING Discerning Eye Exhibition - The Mall Gallery November 2018  Group Show

The South West Academy of Fine and
Applied Arts  November 2018 - Group Show

Seven Artists Sevenoaks - Kaleidoscope Gallery  October/November 2018 - HB Drawing Group show

The Black Barn
August 2018 -HB Drawing Group show, including curation

Butley Mills Studios - Suffolk
Drawing Residency July/August 2018

Capsticks
October 2017- April 2018 - Group Show

Merton Arts Festival
Reflection & Transformation
at Wimbledon College of Art
September 2017 - Group show

Marcus Beale Architect's Drawing Prize
and Residency October 2017

Wimbledon College of Art MA Degree show
September 2017 - Group show

Wimbledon College of Art
Unframed: September 2017 - Group Show

C4RD
New Perspectives: June 2017 - Group show

RWA - The Royal West of England Academy
Drawn Biennial: 1 April - 4 June 2017
Group show

The Art Space Gallery, Cass Arts, Kingston
The Same Difference: 24 February - 4 March 2017 -  Group Show

Mall Galleries
FBA - Futures
9-20 January 2017 - Group show

Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
Drawn Together - October 2016, Group Show

Wimbledon College of Art
In the frame - September 2016, Group Show

Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery
Sixty - May 13 – 22 May 2016 - Group Show

C4RD
Out of Line - April 2016 - Group Show

We ALL Draw @UAL
Part of We All Draw Symposium
at the Barge House - November 2015
Group Show

Angus-Hughes Gallery
Summer Open: September 2015 - Group Show

Wimbledon College of Art BA Painting
Degree show
June 2015 - Group Show

Nudes (solo show)
Hepsibah Gallery - February 2015

Aldeburgh Exhibition
Peter Pears Gallery
October/November 2014 - Group show

Park14
Cannizaro Park sculpture show
Spring 2014 - Group Show

Wells Art Contemporary (WAC)
Autumn 2013 - Group Show

10 out of 10
Vyner Street Gallery - Spring 2012
Concept, curation and collaboration to produce an exhibition for 10 artists

Capsticks
2011 and 2012
Work selected and shown two years running
Group Show

Door Prize
Spring 2012 - Group Show

BurTur Award
2011 - Shortlisted

Luxury
2011 - Part of series of shows at Wimbledon College of Art

The Black Barn
Collaborative group show every year since 2008 (apart from 2014 and 2015)

Hepsibah Gallery 
February 2008

Royal Society of Arts Student Bursary Awards 1975 - 1st place

Artist’s Statement
October 2024

I start from a place of ‘What if? I wonder? And a big don’t know’. Things grow or unravel and what comes out onto the paper or canvas is a record of a moment, of time.  Each touch of the pencil or brush echoes back and forth to form the whole. 

The things that are constant, sometimes without me realising, are shadow and light often attached to fleeting moments and observations of the abstract in the world around me. 

Recent work attempts a visual two way conversation between painting and drawing. I am playing with positive and negative, depth and surface and watching how my attempts to do so evolves or disintegrates into my own handwriting.