Biography

Jane Austin is a writer, illustrator, producer and digital content maker,  who explores her waking dreams through illustration, screenplays, poetry and experimental short films.
 
Executive Member of Coast on Screen film collective, Austin combines her love of film with her passion for dreaming. She is a member of Dream Network Australia (DNA) and the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and is a graduate of the Assisi Institute’s Jungian Dream Patterning certificate and other dream study.
 
Her first film was a short doco, 'So happy. Together.', exploring the positive impact of belonging to a group singing harmonies. Her current project is the six-part 'Fable' series, inspired by six profound dreams.  Austin premiered 'Liminal' at the MCEVF Festival in New York in 2016 and 'Animus' in 2017. She is currently in pre-production on the third work, 'Mesmeric' and her award winning screenplay, 'Trampoline'.

She has written two screenplays,  worked in production roles on a number of films including 'Old Mates', a six-part web series and was producer and floor manager on 'The Litmus Test', an monthly video podcast series. She has also produced a successful play reading, 'Millie's War' and a Short+Sweet festival-winning live performance of 'Liminal'.

Holding a BA in Literature, she is a published poet in Australia and Ireland,  holds TESOL teaching qualifications and has worked in the Adult Migrant language teaching sector as a teacher, coordinator, resource developer and curriculum designer.
 
She has also worked in corporate and marketing communications roles in Education & Training and for two years as a script editor in news and current affairs at ABC, SBS and TCN Channel 9. She was  Academic Manager at NAISDA Dance College for 10 years, supporting the development of an innovative arts-based curriculum for Indigenous Australian students.

In 2021 Austin moved to Darwin to work at Charles Darwin University and is a Master of Arts student  student researching the use of dream practices in Anamnesis: re-membering the things we forget we once knew through digital arts-based enquiry.

Her latest films  'Dreaming the White Goddess' and 'Anamnesis' were showcased at Darwin Visual Art's 'The Female Gaze' Exhibition, 2023, along with 'Liminal'.

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Creative Work & Presentations

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• Writer/Director, 'Dreaming the White Goddess', 'The Female Gaze' exhibition, Darwin Visual Arts, 2023
  
• Writer/director, 'Anamnesis', 'The Female Gaze' exhibition, Darwin Visual Arts, 2023
  
• Presenter, University of Newcastle, HASS Symposium 'Portals into the 'Non-Human', 2022
• Writer Award Winning microscript,  'Trampoline'  2018
• Presenter, 'The Cambrian Explosion', International Association for the Study of Dreams conference, Arizona, USA 2018
• Writer/director, 'Mesmeric', in pre-production, 2018
• ​'Dream Your World into Being' online international conference presenter, 'Dreaming and the Creative Process', October, 2017
• Director, Producer, Writer, Illustrator 'Animus' experimental short film, April, 2017
• Producer & Grand final winner, 'Liminal dance performance', Short+Sweet Central Coast winner, Laycock St Theatre, 2017
• ArtsNSW International Arts& Health Conference Presenter, Dreaming and Creativity, NSW Art gallery, Sydney, 2016
• Producer, 'Millie's War' playreading and workshop, Laycock St Theatre, Gosford, 2016
• Writer, Producer, Animator, Director, 'Liminal', premiered at the 2016MCEVF Experimental Film Festival, NYC, USA, 2016,
• Co-writer, 'Animale', 13-part TV series, Low budget, MA, 2015
• Associate Producer, 'The Litmus Test' 8-part video podcast series, 2015
• Wardrobe Mistress, 'Happy Hippy and Friends', 2015
• Writer, 'Trampoline', Low budget, G
• Writer, 'Surfacing', Low Budget, MA15+
• Production Manager, 'Sackcloth and Ashes', 2014
• Production Manager, 'Big Girls', 2014
• Production Assistant, 'Catch That Shadow', 2013
• Writer and Director, 'So Happy. Together', 2013​

Publications 

• ​Writer, 'Foxglove', Silverstreams Post Modern Art Journal, Ireland, June, 2017
  
• Dream Network Australia, 'Dream Inspirations', 2015
• 'Control, Shift, Edit', published in Australian Poetry Organisation's 'Make Your Mark' publication, 2015
• 2016 International Association for the Study of Dreams,  Art Exhibition,  'Une fable sur une Sirene', The Netherlands, 2016, 

Fine Art Exhibitions 

• International ArtExpo SELF IDENTITIES | Buenos Aries, ​'Liminal', Argentina, June, 2016
  
• 2016 IASD Dream Art Exhibition, Liminal Art installation, Kirkrade, The Netherlands, 2016   
• Pearl Beach Sculptor's Exhibition, 'Urban Angel',  Mad Hatters, Sydney, 2013
• Empire Bay Art Show, 'Swirly Whirly Girl I', 'Swirly Whirly Girl II', 2007  
• Empire Bay Art Show, 'Triptych',  Empire Bay,  2006 
• Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre, 'Angel Time' and 'Floating Woman and Cow', Sydney, 2003

Dream Study 

• Robert Moss, 'Dreaming Your Ancestors', Stella Maris Retreat Centre, Howth, Ireland
  
• Dream Network Australia, 'Eclipse of the Creative Psyche' conference, Sydney, 2016
• Assisi Institute, 'Jungian Dream Patterning' Certificate course, Connecticut, USA, 2015-2016
• Dream Network Australia, 'Dreams, Archetypes and Transformations' conference, Sydney, 2015
• Dream Network Australia, 'Dreams at Transitional Points of Life' conference, Sydney, 2016
• The Shift Network, 'Dreaming into the Dreamtime' course, Robert Moss, August – September 2015 
• The Shift Network, 'Dreaming Wide Awake' course, Robert Moss, June – August 2015
• Robert Moss, 'Writing as a State of Dreaming Consciousness ' Writing Workshop, Seattle, USA, May 2015
• Robert Moss,  'Dream Temple of Healing' workshop, Esalen Institute, USA, April 2015