January 2nd, 2010

JANE & JEREMY

One Girl. One Boy. Together, Jane and Jeremy create various art projects that
are so lovely they make you feel all warm inside. Cutest couple ever.

How did Jane & Jeremy start?
In a small room, in a small blue house in South London, after another long day
at work, it was probably raining outside and it was then we decided we wanted
to do something nice, for ourselves and our friends! We were always working
on our own projects before we met and we just felt like it could all work together well
as we both liked each others work. We did it for our own sanity! Why not?

Where are you from and what is the relationship between you two?
Jeremy is from Australia and Jane is from England….we met on a dance floor in
London…I guess that was where the Jane and Jeremy adventure began! We are
still in London and we are together.

What inspires you?
That can come from anywhere, you just never know. We like our traveling, photographic
books, Ed Ruscha’s in particular, Gerhard Richter, Richard Prince, August Sander,
friends, conversations, music, finding nice things at markets and charity shops,
like booklets, old photographs, or ephemera.
One of Janes favourites at the moment is Fine little day blog and Jeremy still
thinks the talk by Damon Murray of FUEL Design goes down
as one of his most inspiring.

The Envelopes Book is brilliance. How did the idea start? How long did it take for you to collect all these envelopes?
Jane was doing work experience at ‘THE FACE’ Magazine many moons ago…..
“I got to do some good jobs, one of them was opening the post!! I liked all the
different envelopes they used to get from big fashion houses and creative people…
nice paper and designs, and handwriting. Instead of putting them in the bin I
put them in my bag and then decided to make a little sketch book from them.
Years later Jeremy found it and thought it was great, so we decided to make more
for our website….he’s the entrepreneur!”
Now we ask all our friends to save their envelopes for us!

Are you currently working on any new projects?
Yes, just about to release Palm Springs, a new book which is by our friend
photographer Noel Mclaughlin. We’re also working on two new books, with our
own imagery….one will be images of surfing inspired by the surfing film Litmus
and the other will be another photographic series.

Any advice to young artists?
Just work hard and get your work out for people to see it….working with friends
is great for that! And always have fun!

  

www.jane-jeremy.co.uk