Jane Crisp is a British artist with a practice spanning furniture making and homeware design. Focusing on the trug as a sculptural object, her work is situated between biophilic design sensibilities and a contemporary aesthetic informed by traditional craft methodologies. Crisp’s pieces reference the making mythologies of her native East Anglian Fen country, where trugs have been made by fenmen and women for generations. Positing the trug as a vessel borne from necessity and shaped by the rhythm and ritual of community, her work is a meditation on our symbiotic relationship to the natural environment and how its myriad repetitions influence and inform the human experience, as we mirror and respond to nature’s patterns by way of our own customs and behaviours.
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The Own Art Scheme is an interest-free loan scheme set up by the Arts Council that is designed to make it affordable for everyone to buy original, high quality contemporary art and craft by letting you spread the cost of your purchase over 10 months.
You can choose any work with a retail price between £250 and £25,000 from our great selection of prints, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, glass and wood. It is not possible to buy gift vouchers with the Own Art Scheme.
You can borrow from as little as £250 up to a maximum of £25,000 . We then spread the cost of your purchase over 10 months with an interest free loan. For instance, if you buy a painting from us that costs £300 through the own art scheme, you would pay £30 in 10 monthly installments.
