I’ve just started a 3 month residency at BPW Organised by their new curator Moran Been-noon and with technical support from Dónall Billings….really pleased to be able to take advantage of this terrific resource.
Jacqueline’s Jerwood Bursary will be instrumental in developing a mentoring relationship in order to unpack the role and conditions of the artist. She will explore the institutional, social and personal barriers to participation in contemporary practice.
Opening Thursday, 30 January 2020. Exhibition continues until February 15
‘Out of step and slightly awkward I am articulated through identities as daughter, sister, artist, office worker, dog owner, benefits claimant, unpaid/paid cultural worker. The seesaw of survival as an artist and as a citizen: the hidden life, the under-the-radar life in conflict with the desire to be legitimate. Squeezing my art practice in between the everyday exigencies of earning a living, creating time, space and energy to enable a continuity of art practice. And in parallel, trying to muddle along in the art world, where the studio is home but the art world feels at times like a minefield of social mores that feel like a foreign land.’ JH
This Moment of Being is an exhibition by Jacqueline Holt that documents the day-to-day life and experiences of a cultural worker. Opening up discourse around cultural production by exposing process and practice, trying to make ends meet and touching on the personal. By using peripheral and fleeting moments of connection and intimacy in an effort to capture the unseen life that escapes the direct focus of intended production. The exhibition brings together photography, sculpture and video, using the exhibition as a medium to mark a moment in process.
pssquared.org/projects/this-moment-of-being
Thursday 26th September 6-8pm at Havelock House
It’s been great to have a studio at Flax these last few months. As part of the launch for the new space at the old UTV building. We were asked by curator Phillip McCrilly to insert works around the building. I chose a piece from 2011 and tucked it into one of the lift recesses in the rear stairway.
Un Jardin d’hiver - just off the Crumlin Road, Belfast 2018. Photograph 30 x 60 cm
I have been invited by the lovely Gerry Smith to participate in The Last Soiree of the Belgium Embassy Annex, London N16. Loved putting this together! You can listen to him here, in praise of the Belgian’s on Resonance FM
Clear Blue Sky 2018/86 was made in response to Soft Fiction Projects request for an image for their new publication, Doris. The title evolved from a phrase I had heard somewhere saying that, ‘there is no sky between us’, the implication was that we are of one mind.
DORIS was launched during Printing Plant, the first artists book fair organised by Looiersgracht 60 (Amsterdam) in conjunction with the Amsterdam Art Weekend on 23rd-25th November 2018.
