JANE EPPEL
(b.1979, Cape Town, South Africa)

Jane Eppel is a South African printmaker. Graduating with a degree in printmaking from the University of Cape Town in 2001, Eppel’s career has subsequently followed a circuitous route, to include printmaking, oil painting as well as collaborating with her husband, artist Nic Bladen. 

Detailed and delicate, Eppel’s monochromatic etchings are deeply autobiographical, using motifs from the natural world to explore the push and pull of events in her own life. Fascinated by the interconnectedness of all things, of the micro and the macro, in Eppel’s work the strands of a spiderweb can allude to the imagined lines of a constellation or the bonds of a molecule. The quietness of her prints belies the physical rigour of their making: etching is a very laborious process, and a work can take weeks or months to complete.

Eppel has exhibited her etchings in London and New York and has had several solo exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, most notably at the Everard Read galleries and the Irma Stern Museum, South Africa.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019
Southern Aspect, group show, Everard Read, London, UK
Recent Works, solo, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2018
Winter, group show, Everard Read, London, UK

2013
Recent Work, solo, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2012
TRACE, a joint show with Cathy Abrahams, In Toto Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
An Alphabet of Fynbos, solo, South African Print Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Nature of the Earth: conversations from above and below, with Nic Bladen, Astrid Dahl and Katherine Glenday, Amaridian Gallery, New York

2011
In Bloom II, group show, Casa Labia, Muizenberg, South Africa
Print, Rust en Vrede Gallery, South Africa
Art on Paper, group show, Kalk Bay Modern Gallery, South Africa
Recent Prints, solo, South African Print Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Natural Selection, with botanical sculptor Nic Bladen, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
10 Years On, group exhibition curated by Andrew Lamprecht and Jessa Mockridge, acknowledging the 10 year milestone of the 2001 Michaelis graduates. The Michaelis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

2010
In Bloom, group show, Casa Labia, Muizenberg, South Africa
Coppertone 77, group exhibition, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
20-squared, Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Print, These Four Walls Gallery, Observatory, South Africa
HEEMS, group exhibition at Kruisrivier Farm, South Africa
Art on Paper and Ceramics, Kalk Bay Modern Gallery, South Africa
Contemporary South African Art, curated by Geeta Chagan at Degree Art Gallery, London, UK
Tretchikoff and me, group show, curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
Smorgasbord, group show, Wessel Snyman Collective, Cape Town, South Africa
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, UK
'Heartland' a 3-woman show with Marieke Prinsloo and Mila Reyneke at Grande Provence Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa

2009
Let them eat cake, group show, Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Angels IV, the annual Summer exhibition at Grande Provence Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa
Artworks on Paper' group show, Kalk Bay Modern Gallery, South Africa

2008
Sanctum, solo, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2007
RINT 07, group show, Bell Roberts Gallery, Lourensford, South Africa
Greenhouse, group show, Bell Roberts Gallery, Lourensford, South Africa

2006
Orientation: bearing east, solo, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

2004
Brett Kebble Award finalist
Curiosity CLXXV, group exhibition celebrating UCT's 175th anniversary