珍．辛普森生於1965年，1985-8年在倫敦切爾西藝術學院攻讀美術；1990-3年就讀皇家美術學院。作品曾在達明安•赫斯特策劃的「有人瘋了有人逃跑」(倫敦蛇形畫廊，1994)及「感覺：薩奇英國青年藝術家藏品」展(倫敦皇家美術學院，1997)中展出。現於倫敦生活及工作。
辛普森創作雕塑時會採用不同的物料，如冰、矽膠、貴金屬及家居物品等，最奇特的更有製冷處理系統。當還在倫敦皇家美術學院唸書時，辛普森就已嘗試在雕塑作品中使用製冷技術。用食材來創作時，她更會研究各種冷藏方法去保存食物，對過程中的物質轉化興趣日濃。
辛普森的雕塑和攝影，尤其她的現代靜物作品，都參考了畫家喬治奧．莫蘭迪的特質而聚焦在物體基本形態上。作品《牛奶照片》系列富有豐富的白色調子，呈現了半浸在牛奶中的家居物品。她使用近距離的拍攝及剪裁手法，使被棄置的廚具如同浸泡於淺海裡。在底座或架上排列的瓶子和其他器皿，不管是工業生產或是手製的、陶瓷或橡膠的、單色或多色的，顯然具有莫蘭迪的影子，除了表現她對莫蘭迪的敬意外，更展示了她對靜物的獨特研究。在組合作品《美人 (冷藏的黃金年代)》(2000)中，優雅的燈座底和鋼盤表面的白色物質，是辛普森使用製冷技術所結的一層霜。霜層和家居物品互不協調地並列，讓我們重新審視並尊重平常熟悉的東西。
辛普森主要個展包括：「我的遺產和不幸的故事」（格林與魯柏茲畫廊，紐約，2008）；「靜物」(加菲亞．魯柏茲畫廊，馬德里，2006)；「和自己的三向對話」(新藝術中心，羅茲庭院，威爾特郡，2005)；「生動場景」(馬拉加當代藝術中心，2004)；「某處（結冰和融化之間）的熱情」(加菲亞．魯柏茲畫廊，馬德里；桑德拉．格林畫廊，紐約，2004)。最近的聯展包括藝術局收藏展「聚集」(朗賽德畫廊，約克郡雕塑公園，2010)；以及和莎拉．斯塔頓共同策展的「親親表親」(亨利．摩爾研究所，列斯，2007)。
Jane Simpson was born in 1965. She studied Fine Art in London at Chelsea School of Art from 1985-8 and later the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1990-3. In 1994 she exhibited work in the exhibition Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, curated by Damien Hirst at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and also Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1997. She lives and works in London.
Simpson creates sculptures using such diverse materials as ice, silicon rubber, precious metals and household objects and, most unusually, refrigeration. She started experimenting with refrigeration in her sculptures whilst still a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. She worked with food and developed ways to preserve it in her work, and became increasingly interested in the transformative qualities of the process.
The sculptural and photographic work of Jane Simpson references the work of painter Georgio Morandi, with a similarly intense focus on essential form particularly apparent in her modernist still life pieces. A palette of whites is evident in her Milk Photos, serial works in which household objects are semi-submersed in milk and the closely focused image cropped to suggest a continuous shallow sea of abandoned kitchen implements. Her plinth or shelf mounted arrangements of bottles and other vessels are homage to Morandi. The uniquely obsessive studies feature generic still life objects, manufactured or hand made, in ceramic or rubber, monochrome or multicoloured. Simpsons’s use of refrigeration elements within her object assemblages produces an additional material in the layer of frost that forms a white coating on the base of an elegant lamp, and the surface of a steel dish in Belle (Golden Age of Refrigeration) (2000). The incongruity of the frost in juxtaposition with the domestic objects invites us to re-examine and revere the familiar.
Selected solo exhibitions include: My Inheritance and Other Bloody Tales, Gering & López Gallery, New York, 2008; Still Still Life, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain, 2006; A Three Way Conversation with Myself at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, 2005; Tableau at CAC Malaga, 2004; and Somewhere (between freezing and melting) there lies passion at both Galería Javier López, Madrid and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, 2004. Recent group exhibitions include The Gathering, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Arts Council Collection Show, 2010; and Kissing Cousins, curated by Jane Simpson and Sarah Staton at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2007.