Sculptor. Born in London. She studied at St Martin's School of Art (1974-79) and at the Royal College of Art (1980-83), where she won the Special Melchett Award for work in steel, and the Fulham Pottery Award. She also travelled with a scholarship to Carrara in Italy. She specialises in abstract and figurative steel sculpture, and has exhibited regularly at the Kingsgate Gallery in North London, since her first solo show there in 1984. Her work in collaboration with Levitt Bernstein Architects on the redevelopment of the Old Royal Free Hospital in Islington (1993) was awarded the Europa Nostra Prize, and in 1995 she received an award from the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation in New York for her work to date. In 1997 a major retrospective of her work was held in the Provost’s Garden at Worcester College, Oxford. Jane Ackroyd’s two most visible works in London are Moonlight Ramble (1992, Haymarket), and Herring Gull (1994, Narrow Street, Limehouse).