Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I

About 

Jacky is an artist and maker that has created pieces for exhibitions, commissions and residencies ranging in scale from small handheld objects through to large-scale architectural pieces, throughout the UK. Each project is completely unique, drawing from a range of metalwork techniques and processes, including jewellery, silversmithing, blacksmithing techniques.  This breadth allows her approach to respond sensitively to the variety of subjects that inspire each bespoke piece.  

Jacky’s work brings together narratives from a range of sources, contemporary and historic. She researches ideas extensively including archive material, interviews and handwritten notes. Jacky has a broad and open approach to fluidly developing ideas.  

The hands-on manipulation of materials, metal in particular, is something that she is passionate about. Scrutinising both form and surface, Jacky strives to bring the material to life, interrogating the qualities of different techniques and processes. Investigating how they can be combined to create artefacts, which stimulate viewers to consider and reflect. Using light and shadows in her work, allows the viewer to see beyond, a sometimes complex structure, to a simpler bolder message. 

Education 

1994-1998                 Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery M.A.(R.C.A) 

1994-1998                 Royal College of Art, London. 

1990-1994                 B.A. (Hons) 2:1 Jewellery Middlesex University   

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Shows 
2022                         Horse Power Somerset Rural Life Museum 

2004                         Boundaries of the Body  20-21 Visual Arts Centre 

2000                         Inside out -Body sculpture inspired by the human form Solo Show Aurum, London 

Group Shows 
2023                         Making Spaces Decorex International, Olympia 

2023                         Future Icons, Barge House, Tower Wharf, London (Part of London Craft Week) 

2022                         Connecting Lines, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff 

2022                         Our Journey Design Nation The Hub Sleaford 

2021-2022               We are commoners by Craftspace Oriel Davies Gallery, Leicester Gallery 

                                  De Montfort University, Make Southwest, The Civic Barnsley, The Hub Sleaford 

2021                         Collect presented by Design Nation 

2020                         Collect Open, Collect, Crafts Council, Somerset House, London 

2018                         Collect presented by Vessel ,Collaboration - Oliver and Hawes, Saatchi Gallery, London 

2017                     Gather-ing Craftspace, Somerset Art works and National Trust 

and 2015                  Somerset Rural Life Museum and Stoke Sub Hamdon Tithe Barn 

2002-2003               Designing Ourselves National Museum of Scotland           

2001-2002               Ikons of Identity National Touring exhibition 

1994                          What is Jewellery Crafts Council, London 

Awards 
2022                         Cockpit 2022 Bursary The Worshipful Company of Tin and Wire Workers 

2020                         Arts Council Project Grant 

2019                         First Prize and Best in Show Pewter Live The Worshipful Company of Pewterers 

2000                         Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary 

1998                         Nicole Strober Award 

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