NI Science Festival 2023: Sensing the City

Jane Butler's practice forms a series of enquiries into the vastness of the human mind, and examines the differences in how we perceive the environment and process its information. Her architectural interventions, installations and photography-based works are informed by elusive memories and neurological effects. She utilises surfaces, text, colour and light to explore how the formal aspects of artworks subconsciously affect human experience, and how advances in neuroscience influence how architects and urban planners shape cities. She is interested in the unseen potential of existing urban structures and predominantly works site-specifically to generate poetic responses to city life and connect public and private states.

Jane received a BA Fine Art (Sculpture) from Ulster University in 2009. She is currently an associate member of Array Collective and Co-Director of Household, who work collaboratively with artists, writers, curators and the public to develop thought provoking projects in the public realm. She has been commissioned by organisations in Belfast, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, France and most recently Poland, to produce site specific projects.

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