Jane Rendell

‘’My montages portray a sense of time passing in the fact that all the people have originated from photographs taken during the same shoot in a specific site. I bring people together from separate moments in time to form crowds. Up until recently I have just collected images of people walking past the camera in different direction. I have now began to collect photos of people doing other things then just walking- interacting with one another or stopping to tie a shoe lace - and also to portray a sense of where these people are by adding parts of architecture or landscape.
I have begun using moving image to record how people move through space during short periods of time, how gaps and voids appear in groups of people. I use this in my drawings to explore issues of public and private space, or intimacy and distance. By making my drawings life size I feel there is greater interaction with the viewer, and I have begun to explore what happens when drawings of crowds exist in a crowded space.’’