Alternative arts education pedagogy, artist-led communities, artist as curator, graphic design, sculpture, display of artwork, and using digital design programmes.
Jack’s work is influenced by approaches developed whilst working as a graphic designer, which he adopts to inform design-led methodologies for working and approaches around colour palette, composition, and type. He frequently sets himself briefs when working, encouraging formal and spatial limitations to emerge.
Jack’s work embraces the themes of decay, ruination, and the architecture of public space (particularly the vernacular design of shop fronts), where there is a tension between thematics and materials used. His works have often been described as anachronistic, operating in an uneasy historical space of reference points and projected futures.
Jack is interested in both artist-led activity and alternative arts education, and established Day School in 2021: a year-long programme offering artists a shared studio space alongside monthly education days with guest artists, support and advice for work and careers, and other professional development opportunities, community projects and social occasions.
Selected exhibitions include To Live A Thousand Years In One Poem, Gallery 36, Newcastle Upon Tyne (2023), The Age of Dreamers is Over, Grand Union, Birmingham (2022), MAD as MAP, News of the World, Deptford (2019), Open/Closed, SERF, Leeds (2018), East Midlands Today, Two Queens, Leicester (2017), eeeeeeeee, CBS Gallery, Liverpool (2017), Future Late, Tate Modern, London (2016), Platform, Modern Art Oxford (2013).
