About
Approaching poetry as a painter, painting as a poet…
Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Born on the south coast of England, she attended Camberwell College of Art in London before moving to New York City in 2002. After relocating to NYC, she concentrated on poetry and spoken word and performed extensively across the United States, plus the UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, and Canada. Jane now resides in Hudson, NY. She was a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA (2012-2025), an independent press focusing on edgy and experimental poetry and prose. She is the recipient of a 2020 NYC Acker Award in publishing for her contribution to the avant-garde community.
Jane returned to painting in 2022. In 2025 she joined the Hudson Open Studio organizing committee. In addition, Jane hosts and curates the literary and performance series “A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” at the historic Park Theater in Hudson, NY on the first Thursday of the month with John K Lawson.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Hudson Open Studios, Hudson, NY (October 11-12, 2025)
Sneak Peek, Hudson Open Studio Pop-Up, 253 1/2 Warren St, Hudson, NY (August 9 -31, 2025)
Scene Scenes, CREATE Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
Luminous, Arbor Gallery, Carmel, NY
What We Hold, CREATE Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
2024
HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Best in Show, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY
20x20, CREATE Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
Hudson Open Studios, Hudson, NY
2023
Silver & Gold, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson, NY
Hudson Open Studios, Hudson, NY
Small Work by Strangers, Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY
2022
A Kind of Magic, Gallery 40, Poughkeepsie, NY
Hudson Open Studios, Hudson, NY
2011
a nod to John Cage, de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
1995-1997
Words & Pictures - Ulta-Paranoid (Extra-Spatial) Portable Art! Venues including Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Contemporary Print Show, London, UK; London Artist Book Fair, UK; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France
1994
Unplugged, Unit 9, London, UK
1993
Pet Show, Union Street Gallery, London, UK
1990
Riverside One, London, UK
1989
BT New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, and national tour
Website photographs by Peter Darrell, Jay Franco, Michael Geffner, Kat Georges, and Shell Sheddy