Jane Aubourg

Jane Aubourg is a composer, violinist and zine maker based on Dhawaral Country (Wollongong, NSW Australia). She writes a monthly zine called Paper Trails that follows her creative process and experiences of composing, performing and improvising.

Jane has been a member of award-winning exploratory new music ensemble The Music Box Project since 2014. She has performed and composed for their Upstairs pub series and co-directed Cut Paste Play 2024, a weekend festival of experimental music featuring international, interstate and local Sydney artists.

Since 2020, Jane’s major solo project has been composing and performing on Anita Johnson’s sculpture Play Me Mend Me – a curious assemblage of an unfinished violin, a salvaged crutch, a tobacco tin and a blanket. Jane’s music on this instrument/sculpture primarily explores her experience of chronic pain from playing violin. This cross-artform collaboration explores how to continue making music; how to play and how to mend.

Jane is represented as an Associate Artist with the Australian Music Centre.