10 June – 24 July 2011
Hilary Jack
Castlefield Gallery
Manchester
M15
The floatsam and jetsam of everyday life are rearranged by Jack to form sculptural instillations that comment on a countryside under threat or a domestic home damaged, making ingenious use of unwanted detritus and reinvigorating the last and abandoned article anew. (Castlefield)
- What was once beautiful: There is a drip-drip of water and a feel of the forest, earthy green and lush for a while but then brown, ripped and destroyed just a little further on down the trail. Life sits slightly uncomfortably with death here haunted by a suggestion of the untimely event in both the natural and the domestic worlds. Mirrors offer surprising angles and reflections not of me, the viewer, but of the work and the life that once was. In the reflections much of the dead comes alive and is beautiful once more. A Quizzical stare is exchanged between me and the eyes that greet me.
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