Jacqui Barrowcliffe North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Jacqui Barrowcliffe is a London born multidisciplinary artist based in North Yorkshire. Her work embraces slowness through a process based practice, offering moments of quiet calm in a rushed and noisy world. Exploring themes of change and time within personal narratives and environmental concerns, her practice spans photography, video, text, textiles and found object processes.
Combining and contrasting digital and analogue, intimate and universal narratives, man made and natural rhythms, her work meditates on our emotional connection to our surroundings. From textile work reflecting on grief and resilience through the practice of unpicking, to video installation and cyanotype pieces that consider our relationship with nature; all her work stems from personal experience of loss, framed within a wider exploration of impermanence and transformation. Inspired by the landscape and heritage of the North Yorkshire coast of England, where she is based, her practice considers these themes in the context of environmental change such as rising sea levels and coastal erosion, reflecting on the connection between personal, collective and environmental grief and transformation.
She has exhibited in group shows around the UK as well as photography festivals in Barcelona, where she was previously based. As well as showing work in traditional gallery spaces, she has exhibited in several alternative venues including empty shops, a beach hut, a disused toilet block, a forest and a market hall, where she enjoys responding to the space and bringing artwork into an unexpected context within the public realm.
A key part of her practice is facilitating creative space for others, through community engagement, collaborative artworks and curatorial projects. She has worked with schools and community groups to design and deliver projects inspired by the themes in her own work with a view to generating discussion around environmental threats and nature connection. Projects include commissions from Invisible Dust, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Carers Plus and the University of Sheffield.
Artwork
Temporary surface, Photograpic sculpture, 2023
Invisible threads, Installation, 2020-2022, NFS
Aqua, terra, (f)lux, Cyanotype, 2022 - ongoing
Dedicating time and presence as an act of care, Video installation and interactive piece, 2024
Projects and exhibitions
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Mother Nature Balance06/02/2024 — 24/02/2024 In February 2024 I undertook a 3 week residency in the gallery space at RuptureXIBIT in Hampton Wick, London. Unable to relocate to London for the duration of the residency due to my parenting responsibilities, my intervention was a hybrid format between occasional physical presence in the space and remote working from North Yorkshire. This... [Read more] |
RuptureXIBIT, Hampton Wick, London | Details |
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After Anna; Blueprint Impressions from Today’s Seas - community art project01/01/2023 — 31/08/2023 A community art project commissioned by Invisible Dust and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust as part of their Wild Eye art and nature project. I worked with different community groups and members of the public introducing them to the pioneering work of English botanist and artist Anna Atkins and the photographic process cyanotype, to make images using... [Read more] |
Scarborough Market Hall and high street shop window display, Scarborough, North Yorkshire | Details |