About Jane Long

Photographer and digital artist Jane Long was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, she combines photography and photomanipulation to create slightly surreal images that straddle the line between reality and fantasy.

Completely self-taught, she has worked with Photoshop since 1994, both commercially and for personal work. This led to a love of photography, concentrating on conceptual work, with digital art remaining an integral part of her work.

Deciding to move into the fine art market in April 2014, her first series “Self-Preservation” received several accolades including several images being listed as finalists for the Macquarie Photography Prize and “Cured” being announced as a semi-finalist for the Moran Photographic Prize.

Her next series “Dancing with Costică” shot her to international exposure with features on over 150 prominent photography and general interest websites including ABC News US, Daily Mail UK, Daily Mail Australia, SLR Lounge, PetaPixel, Bored Panda and BuzzFeed as well as a number of photography magazines and Romanian TV! The series was exhibited at the Romanian Embassy in Canberra, Australia in March 2015 and December 2016, at the Romanian Photo Festival in May 2015 and she was selected as a core artist at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in September 2015. She was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by The Ambassador of Romania to Australia and New Zealand for her work on this series.

Interest in her personal work has continued as well as commercial work for Decca Records artist Aurora who commissioned her for the album artwork for her debut release “All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend” as well as other record and film poster works.

In 2019 she was a finalist in the Click 19 photography awards and a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award and in 2021she was a finalist in both the Art Lovers Prize and the Bluethumb Art Prize.

Curious Serenity, Serene Curiosity, her first major solo exhibition to feature a comprehensive collection of her work, was shown at Sage Gallery in Brisbane in 2022. This was followed by an exhibition of over 40 works at Frame Tree Gallery in Cooroy in 2023.

In 2024 she won second place in the SOHO Art Prize.

2024

2^nd Prize, SOHO Art Prize

2021

Finalist, Art Lovers Prize
Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize
4 works chosen for The Block television series

2019

Finalist, Olive Cotton Award
Finalist, Click 19 Photography Award
Finalist, Moreton Bay Art Prize

2014

Finalist, Macquarie Photography Prize
Semi-finalist, Moran Photographic Prize

2024

The Visceral Pleasures exhibition, Meta Gallery, Perth
SOHO Art Prize, SOHO Galley, Sydney

2023

Solo exhibition, Frame Tree, Cooroy
Fiercely Feminine Exhibition, Art Lovers, Melbourne

2022

Curious Serenity – Serene Curiosity (solo exhibition), Sage Gallery, Brisbane
Absurd Exhibition, Art Lovers, Gold Coast, Melbourne
Gestalt Exhibition, Art Lovers, Gold Coast, Melbourne

2021

Dancing with Costica (solo exhibition), Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération (CCA), France
Renewal Exhibition, Art Lovers, Gold Coast

2018

Wild Bonsai Exhibition (solo exhibition), National Arboretum, Canberra

2016

Affordable Art Fair, Retrospect Galleries, Stockholm, Brussels, Hamburg, London

2015

Core Artist, Ballarat International Photo Biennale, Ballarat
Dancing with Costica (permanent collection), Embassy of Romania, Canberra
Romanian Photo Festival, Napoca, Romania
In Red Exhibtion, Lemnos, Greece
Affordable Art Fair, Retrospect Galleries, Stockholm, Brussels, Hamburg, London

2014

Fact and Fantasy, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, USA