About
Jane Hayes Greenwood is a London-based artist. First and foremost a painter, she also works across ceramics, sculptural installation and CGI animation. Strongly grounded in personal experience, her work explores themes of desire, fertility, motherhood and death through botanical research that entangles with feminist histories. In her work, otherworldly plants and strange objects inhabit psychologically charged, psychedelic environments. Infused with a dreamlike sensibility, her works examine the powerful connections between the human and the un/natural world.
Her work includes an ongoing series of over 50 paintings titled, The Witch’s Garden, which explores the properties and histories of medicinal plants, their ties to marginalised women and their complex roles in our lives - how these potent substances can heal and harm; bring pleasure and produce trauma. The works move through entangled human and plant histories, with plants becoming vessels for stories of suffering, resilience, joy, knowledge and control – touching on how botanical substances have been used across time to fuel addiction, care for bodies, exert control and influence power structures.
Jane recently curated The Nature of Things, an ambitious 19-person group exhibition at Castor Gallery. The show brought together artists ranging from the Turner Prize winning to the newly graduated and explored themes of personal experience, ecology and indigenous knowledge. The exhibition examined humanity’s complex relationship with the vegetal world, touching on ecology, telling stories of displacement, violence, extraction and consumption.
Jane received an MA from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2015. She was the recipient of the Palazzo Monti x ACS Residency prize in 2024 and was shortlisted for The XL Catlin Prize in 2015. Jane’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Castor Gallery, London (UK) and GiG, Munich (Germany), as well as group exhibitions at Stuart Shave Modern Art, London (UK), Mana Contemporary (USA) and Fir, Beijing (China).
Block 336 / Other
In 2011, Hayes Greenwood co-founded Block 336,, an artist-run gallery and studios in Brixton, London, which she directed until 2023. Jane shaped the space's artistic vision, presented over 40 large-scale exhibitions, hosted more than 200 events and collaborated with over 170 artists - from art school graduates to renowned practitioners. She developed comprehensive community engagement programmes and secured substantial funding to support the space's activities.
Jane is a visiting tutor at City & Guilds of London Art School and ESOP and mentors emerging artists at Turps Art School. She also consults for arts charities, bringing her expertise to support and strengthen the arts sector.
Education
2015: MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (Distinction)
2011: BA (Hons) Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (First Class)
Solo Exhibitions
2023: A Little History, Castor Gallery, Fitzrovia
2021: In The Night Garden, Castor Gallery, London
2019: The Witch’s Garden, GiG, Munich
2017: Lead Me Not Into Temptation, Block 336, London
2016: Solo presentation: XL Catlin Art Prize, London
2015: Shovel-Screening. Art Bermondsey, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Apr: LAS Begins, 3 The Artworks, Creekside, Deptford, London
2024
Aug: The Nature of Things, curated by Jane Hayes Greenwood, Castor Gallery, London
Jun: Lychee One: 10 year anniversary show, Lychee One, London
May: Waverton Art Prize show, Boisdale, Lonfon
2023
The Moth and The Thunderclap, curated by Simon Grant, Stuart Shave Modern Art (Helmet Row)
2022
Her, Fir Gallery, Beijing, China
There Goes The Neighbourhood, Castor Gallery, London
The Destructive Mollusk, curated by Haze, Assembly Point, London
2021
Friends of Friends, Collective Ending, London
2020
Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary (USA)
Staycation, Lychee One
In Touch, Danielle Arnaud, London (online)
No Time Like The Present, Public Gallery, London (online)
2019
A High Hang, Arebyte, London
Zombies, Peter von Kant, London
Sour Persimmons Chasm, curated by Andy Holden, Bedford
The Amber Room supper club, curated by Rosie Reed
The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow, London
Sleepy Heads curated by Mindy Lee, Blyth Gallery, London
Absinthe §2, Spit & Sawdust, London, London
One of One curated by Julie Bentley, 163, London
Abracadabra curated by Brian Mountford, Assembly House, Leeds
2018
The Lotus Eaters, Aindrea Contemporary
Paper Cuts curated by Kris Day. Saatchi Gallery, SW3 4RY
Oh She Does Like To Be Beside The Seaside: curated by SHELF, Spanish City, Whitley Bay
Do Re Mi Fa So La Te, Griffin Gallery Perimeter Space, London
Fair Play, 10 Lees Place, London
2017
You see me like a UFO: curated by Marcelle Joseph, Ascot, Berkshire
The Summer of Undertone: curated by Emily Marant, Le POC, Marseilles
Ultra Sunrise, IKO and Milk Collective. Hosted by SET, London, SE1 3AW
Exceptional - Collyer Bristow Art Award 2017, Collyer Bristow, London
The Other Side: curated by Paul Carey-Kent, House of St. Barnabus, London
Undertone: curated by Studio Marant, Paris
Sans titre Vol 3: Nothing To Hide curated by Marie Madec, 45 quai de la Tournelle, Paris
2016
It’s Offal: curated by Emma Cousin & Emily Austin, Arthouse 1, London
Sans titre: Vol.2: Curiosités 2016: curated by Marie Madec, Paris
Myth Material, TAP, Southend-on-Sea
Artwork Atelier, Manchester
XL Catlin Prize, London Newcastle Project Space, London
Opening Night Part II, Chabah Yelmani Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Foreign Bodies, Pipeline, Hotel Elephant, London
Dead Rubber, UEL space, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Opening Night Part II, Chabah Yelmani Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
COUNTER_FITTERS, Geddes Gallery, London
Catlin Guide. Launching at the London Art Fair
2015
MA Fine Art Show, City & Guilds of London Art School
Plymouth Contemporary Open. Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
Creekside Open. Selected By Lisa Milroy. Deptford, London
Material Tension at Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2014
Pseudo Museology, Dalla Rosa Gallery, London
MA Interim exhibition, City & Guilds of London Art School, London
Art Athina, Lubromiv-Easton, Athens, Greece
Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol
Future Flesh, Gallery 223, Waterloo, London
Block 336 Studio Artists I, Block 336, London
2013
Aid & Abet at Manchester Contemporary
2012
ArtWorks Open 2012, London
Searcys, The Gherkin, London
'1', Block 336, London
2011
Liber Abaci - Geometry in Nature, Coldharbour London Gallery
City & Guilds of London Art School Degree Show, London
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2024: Hogchester Arts
2024: Palazzo Monti x ACS Residency
2020: Geoffrey Bond Professional Development Bursary
2019: Jerwood Bursary
2017: Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts
2011: The Haworth Trust Award
2011: Outstanding Work in Show (Fine Art) Selected by The Board of Trustees
2011: The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers
2011: The Worshipful Company of Grocers
2010: Philip Connard Travel Award (The Worshipful Company of Skinners)
2010: The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers
2010: Worshipful Company of Grocers
Published
2024
London Art Round Up - The Nature of Things curated by Jane Hayes Greenwood
Anna Souter: Spotlight on Jane Hayes Greenwood
2023
4* review of A Little History at Castor Gallery in Time Out by Eddy Frankel
Studio International by Jillian Knipe
A Little History - essay by Tess Charnley
2021
Strange, wild, transformative by Philomena Epps
FAD, Paul Carey Kent
Interviews from Lockdown with Giulia Mangoni
Interview with: Words With
2020
Chats In Lockdown with Emma Cousin podcast: LISTEN
Art Fictions podcast with Jillian Knipe: LISTEN
Interview with Assemblage Magazine
2019
Interview for Absinthe §2 with Hector Campbell
The Daily Lazy: GiG Munich
Magdalena Wisniowska for GiG Munich
The Immaculate Dream: a-n review
Top 3 things to see in Munich: GalleryTalk
2018
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting
Ambit Magazine #233
Art Maze Magazine
2017
Lead Me Not Into Temptation: Block 336 publication
Interview with ALL-THE-ONES
Interview with Floorr Magazine
Interview (Block 336) with Floorr Magazine
Feature in Grazia France
2016
Apollo Magazine
Interview with FAD
Interview with After Nyne
Interview with AN.D
Dazed Digital
XL Catlin Guide
Looking at Painting