Jane Dodd is a contemporary jeweller based in Dunedin. Her works, fabricated from a mixture of different gold alloys, sterling silver, bone, wood, and shell, display the high level of technical craftsmanship for which Dodd is admired. She came to jewellery through a Diploma in 3D design from UNITEC in Auckland, following earlier studies at the universities of Otago and Auckland.  Since the early ‘90s Dodd has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia, and she is recognised by collectors, galleries and institutions as a significant artist in this field.

In 2021 a survey exhibition of Dodd's work, Wild Domain - the natural history of Jane Dodd Jewellery was held at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, and a thematic survey of her animal themed jewellery, The Kingdom - animals in the jewellery of Jane Dodd was held at Tuhura Otago Museum in 2024.

In recent years, Jane Dodd’s jewellery practice has pivoted around the portrayal of animals.  With a subtext of human impact and interaction, she has explored issues of extinction and infestation, cruelty and conflict.  Strongly influenced by historic European craft traditions, but mindful of the plunder of the natural world that enabled and sanctioned such exuberant work, Dodd channels these contradictory emotions into works of tension, humour and intrigue.