About
Janet Sang ARE is an artist-printmaker based in Brighton who specialises in screenprinting. Since 2016 she has made prints at Volcanic Editions, under the guidance of Ian Brown. Her work embodies layers of ideas, and is driven by an engagement with social injustice and inequality. She constructs allegorical settings, often anchored in specific events or places. She uses autographic and digitally-mediated imagery, combining them through radical juxtaposition, cryptic clues and metaphor.
Janet says of her work:
I think of my approach as collagist, and enjoy how screenprinting in particular allows me to assemble and re-assemble images from different sources. I can layer marks and colours, and play with perception. My prints typically have more than twenty layers of ink, and I work on heavy paper to support them, making small editions and printing to the edge of the paper so that the finished pieces really feel like physical objects. Some prints begin with hand-drawn positives, whereas for others I use Photoshop to map out compositions. The process is very revealing and every print is an adventure. I adjust my plans throughout to explore what emerges in the form of hidden information and the character of particular visual signatures. I want to draw people in and engage their attention at as many levels as possible, challenging them to tease out possible meanings for themselves.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026
Sidney Nolan Open, Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, LD8 2LL. 11 July ‐ 3 October.
2026
Flourish 25 Award Exhibition, Northern Print, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NP. 23 May ‐ 4 July.
2026
RE Original Prints 2026, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 24 April ‐ 31 May.
2026
RBSA Print Prize Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA. 26 February ‐ 28 March.
2026
Flourish 25 Award Exhibition, Leicester Print Workshop, 50 St George Street, LE1 1QG. 6 February ‐ 21 March.
2025
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 6 ‐ 16 November.
2025
RE @ RBSA, RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham B3 1SA. 7 ‐ 18 October.
2025
Small But Mighty, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 18 ‐ 28 September.
2025
LOOP 20th Anniversary exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 9 ‐ 14 September.
2025
Flourish Award Exhibition, WYPW at the Piazza, Huddersfield, Princess Alexandra Walk, HD12RS. 19 July ‐ 21 September, then on tour in the north of England.
2025
RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH, 2 May ‐ 8 June, and then at Mandell's Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich NR3 1HN, 14 June ‐ 12 July.
2025
LOOPx BSMT, BSMT Gallery, 529 Kingsland Road, London E8 4AR. 8 ‐ 13 April.
2025
London Original Print Fair (with Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. 20 ‐ 23 March.
2025
RE at The Burton at Bideford, Kingsley Road, Bideford, Devon EX39 2QQ. 11 January ‐ 1 March.
2024
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH, 7 ‐ 17 November.
2024
Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking Competition, Merrythought Village, TF8 7NJ, 8 September ‐ 16 November.
2024
LOOP2024: Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH, 10 ‐ 15 September.
2024
Miniprint Kazanlak, Kazanlak Art Gallery, Bulgaria. 1 ‐ 30 June.
2024
SMTG International Print Triennial, Nova Huta Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland 25 May ‐ 21 July.
2024
RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 3 May ‐ June.
2024
London Original Print Fair (with Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. 21 ‐ 24 March.
2024
Surface Challenge, Printmakers Council, Barbican Library, London 2 ‐ 27 February.
2023
LOOP2023 Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 12 ‐ 17 September.
2023
Miniature Print, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT. 4 June ‐ 20 August.
2023
Miniprint Kazanlak, Kazanlak Art Gallery, Bulgaria. 1 ‐ 30 June.
2023
London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. 30 March ‐ 2 April.
2023
9th International Miniature Print Biennale, Ottowa School of Art, J W Stellick Gallery, 35 George Street, Ottowa, Canada. 30 March ‐ 14 May.
2023
Thinking for Printing, Printmakers Council Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH. 31 January ‐ 5 February.
2022
Surface and Depth, Printmakers Council Exhibition, Mandell’s Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich NR3 1HN 29 October ‐ 19 November.
2022
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery,Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH, 22 September ‐ 2 October.
2022
LOOP2022 Artists in Print, Bankside Gallery,Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street SE1 9JH, 13 ‐ 18 September.
2022
Miniprint Kazanlak, Kazanlak Art Gallery, Bulgaria, June.
2021
Press and Play, Phoenix Art Gallery, Brighton (with Volcanic Editions).
2021
Printmakers Council: Ecologies of Change, ROSL, London.
2019
Print International, Tŷ Pawb Gallery, Wrexham, Wales.
2019
National Original Printmaking Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London.
2019
Print: A Catalyst for Social Change Bury Museum and Art Gallery.
2018
SMTG Krakow International Print Triennial, (Main exhibition: Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland).
Collections:
Victoria and Albert Museum Print Collection.
RE Diploma Collection.
Printmakers Council collection, Scarborough Art Gallery.
SMTG Krakow.
My work is also on show on Instagram.