Painter, draughtswoman, and printmaker Jane Joseph was born into a Jewish family in Surrey, England on 7 June 1942. She studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art (1961– 65), then won the Leverhulme Travelling Award, which she used to travel in continental Europe (1965–66); much later, she worked in the Graphic Workshop in Pecs, Hungary, in 1989. She twice received the British School at Rome’s Abbey Award in Painting, in 1991 and 1995, respectively, and was commissioned in 1999 by the Folio Society to produce etchings to accompany Primo Levi’s ‘If This is a Man’, followed by ‘The Truce’ in 2001. She had more than 20 solo exhibitions at venues including Morley Gallery, London (1973, 1995, 1997), Flowers East (1982, 1992, 1994), the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York (1999), the Stanley Picker Gallery, University of Kingston (1999), the London Jewish Cultural Centre (2014), Southampton City Art Gallery (2016), and the School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth (2018). She also participated in many group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (most years between 1978 and 2008) and at Ben Uri Gallery in the International Jewish Artist of the Year 2004 (IJAYA) and the exhibition, 'No Set Rules - A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection Southampton and Ben Uri Permanent Collection' in 2015. She taught for many years at Wimbledon School of Art and Morley College, London.
Jane Joseph died in London, England on 16 February 2025. Her work is in UK public collections including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Ben Uri Collection, the British Library, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Government Art Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery, the V&A and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; as well as collections abroad including the Hebrew Union College in New York, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and the Douro Museum, Portugal.
