Jane Burton Creative Director & Founder

About me

Jane Burton Jane is Creative Director and Head of Tate Media, Tate, London. She leads the team responsible for Tate’s film productions, including documentaries about artists for TV and online, the weekly video series TateShots, and cross-platform projects such as the Tate Movie Project - a crowd-sourced animation made with Aardman - and a 360 degree interactive video experience of Damien Hirst's current exhibition at Tate Modern, produced for Channel 4. In 2002, she launched the world’s first wireless multimedia tours at Tate Modern, and in 2008 piloted the UK’s first gallery tour for iPhones at Tate Liverpool. She has produced a raft of mobile products that bring art to wider audiences, including games, podcasts and location based apps; and has won two Baftas for her work. She initially joined Tate in 1999, as Tate Modern’s Curator of Interpretation, and previously worked as a journalist, art critic, and editor for national newspapers.

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Matisse Live from Tate Modern: TrailerMatisse Live from Tate Modern: Trailer
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Palace x Tate - Palace Skateboards inspired by John MartinLev Tanju, the driving force between London skateboard company Palace, has created a unique set of decks inspired by art on show at Tate Britain. He talks us through the design process and we follow him and his team of skateboarders out on a test run. The video mixes digital and VHS footage, and a soundtrack by Rustie and Oneohtrix Point Never on Warp records and LuckyMe.
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TateShots: Daughter performs Smother at Ruin LustHaunting music amidst the ruins in this intimate peformance by the band Daughter. 'Whether its an abandoned man-made structure or a human body, everything will eventually be accepted back into the earth, however cold and brutal it once was,' says singer Elena Tonra, of London band Daughter. Choosing their track 'Smother' as an evocative parallel to the themes of ruin and decay explored in Tate Britain's exhibition Ruin Lust, the band perform a late-night gig, creating a haunting soundtrack fo