Jane Burns is an Australian artist, based in Naarm/Melbourne on the unceded Country of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples. She holds a Bachelor Fine Art Degree - Sculpture (1992) and  Graduate Certificate - Visual Art (2018) from the Victorian College of the Arts, and Diploma of Education - Art (2005) from Monash University. 

 

Burns' practice has ranged across photography, printmaking and installation, but in recent years has focused on digital weaving, creating handwoven works on the TC2 Jacquard loom—a computer-controlled, manually operated handloom. This practice integrates the disciplines of hand weaving and digital weaving, and utilises an innovative technology that only a few artists in Australia currently use.

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As there are just four TC2 looms in Australia - and none are publicly accessible, she has to travel overseas to access her tools. Over the past five years, Burns’ has undertaken workshops in France, Finland and New Zealand to gain specialist skills with master weavers and produce work. A residency at UNSW Art & Design created access within Australia. 

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Burns is interested in how this technology allows for the traditions of hand woven tapestry with the flexibility to use digital imagery and produce objects that sit between the pictorialism of painting and photography, and the materiality of weaving. Through the laborious process of hand weaving, she constructs detailed surfaces of pattern, structure, and pixel-level imagery, building each work thread by thread, often to large scale.

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In 2025 and 2026 Burns travelled to the historical centre of European tapestry in Aubusson, France, to work at Lainamac, a centre for wool excellence with a TC2 studio. Work made during the workshop includes recent work in progress and a body of work titled 'Stubborn Tangles'. In 2024 Burns travelled to Finland to make the series, 'Movement (Arrest)' which was shown in 2025 as a solo exhibition at The Lennox. 

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Alongside her art practice, Jane works in environmental education and consultancy across community and business sectors. In 2015, she was awarded Victorian Environmental & Sustainability Educator of the Year. 

 

She maintains a studio at Creative Spaces, The Meat Market. Burns is seeking to establish Australia's first open access Digital Weaving Lab to make the TC2 loom available to work and learn on. Follow the Loom Loop!