Jan Kerr

Artist & Poet

Still image from Urchin Hearts, Brittle Stars
Film/Poem/Installation
New York City, July 2024

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Time & chance no. 5
New York City 2024

Film/Poem/InstallationUrchin Hearts, Brittle Stars
Filmpoem/PerformanceLore
A tale of love, landscape & the gendered construct of self.
Catalogue PamphletThen Here Now (Still)
Site-specific installation poem exploring the geological bedrock underpinning the Manhattan skyline.Installed at Courtesy of Dietl
Dietl International
207 W 25th St. New York NY 10001

• Bio & Selected Projects

About

Jan Kerr was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1959. She studied Sculpture at Gray’s School of Art, Mixed Media as a post-graduate at the Slade School of Fine Art and recently completed the MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Met. She has been long-listed for both the Magma 96:Antarctic issue and the 2023 Edwin Morgan Second Life Award. In 2018 she was short-listed for the Bridport Prize.Time & Chance No. 5 in 2024 is her first solo exhibition. The installation of poetry, performance and film at Courtesy of Dietl, New York, explored themes of love, landscape, gendered identity and the geology of deep time. After writing solely for the page, Urchin Hearts, Brittle Stars marked a return to filmmaking.She has lived in North Wales since 2000, raising a family, establishing Jan Miller Photography and working freelance as an artist and facilitator for various projects including: Lead Artist on the Mostyn Digital Project for TATE Circuit; Creative Team member on the National Theatre Wales production, Lifted By Beauty : Adventures in Dreaming and as a posie-maker to the Army of Beauty for HeART of Glass.Previous exhibitions include: Signs of the Time, MoMA Oxford, the London Film Festival, the South London Gallery, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Cambridge Darkroom and Art in General, New York. The soundwork, I Am a Regional Variation; I Am My Mother’s Tongue, is held in the permanent collection of the Women’s Sound Archive.

Reading from Lore at Courtesy of Dietl, New York July 2024