Jane Langley

For the American singer, see Jane Pickens Langley.

Jane Langley is a painter, teacher and environmentalist born in 1959. She is the CEO and Founder of the social enterprise company Cool it World Ltd. The company owns two websites, Cool it Vision and Blue Patch. Blue Patch launch will be summer 2014. Cool it Vision was previously known as Cool it Schools launched 2009, see below). She studied at The Royal College of Art, Camberwell, and Chelsea School of Art. She was an Abbey Scholar at the British School of Rome in 1993 and in 2008 a Visiting Fellow, at Goldsmiths, University of London, attached to the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles.[1] Jane Langley is a 2014 London Leader (London Sustainable Development Commission, City Hall, London). Currently establishing an international environmental film competition and awards for young people under the Cool it Vision umbrella.

She is also a curator and one of the founders of The Pattern Lab, which was discussed on UK Radio 4 Woman's Hour in an interview titled "Exploding The Teardrop",[2] a curatorial umbrella group that brings artists, filmmakers, musicians and people from different fields of practice, together to research concepts around fine art, textiles,[3] pattern and craft.[4]

She is a teacher and has worked with undergraduates and post graduate fine artist students at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. She currently teaches at City and Guilds of London Art School.

July 2009 Jane Langley launched the online climate change and environmental project for young people Cool it Schools, now rebranded as Cool it Vision.[5] Cool it Schools was inspired by a lecture on climate change called 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' given by environmentalist Thomas Friedman at R.I.B.A. in October 2008. Cool it Schools provides children with a creative and positive way into learning and caring for the environment. Cool it Schools was a Biodiversity Education Partner with the Natural History Museum for the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB-UK).

References

  1. ↑ Jane Langley webpage (not updated since 2009)
  2. ↑ BBC Woman's Hour
  3. ↑ Travel: Paisley
  4. ↑ The Pattern Lab (not updated since 2008)
  5. ↑ Ecologist: Schools using art to learn about climate change

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