Jacqui
Chapman
B.A.
(Hons)
Fine Art
My work explores the relationship in us
between identity and territory and demonstrates that they are integral to what
we are. As an immigrant from South Africa I am interested in the idea of
homeland, living in exile and national identity as influenced by landscapes and
as told in close up histories, in literature, philosophy and art, while
investigating my own foundations where contradictions of transience and
permanence exist.
In this work, Requiem, I remember my friend.
She was only 42 when she died. Our daughters were best friends age 7. It is
about our last walk up Moel Famau for a windy picnic before she became ill.
Reclaimed floorboards from a demolished girl’s
school in Wallasey, having had their own history, form the implacable box, in
contrast with the fragile book I made from a drawing /painting I worked on during the year she was in
hospital.
Printed:
Ink -jet on Lokta paper 1/1
Having
had a successful career in advertising for 13 years as a senior Art director, I
retrained in England and qualified in 2006 with a first class B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Degree
from Wirral Metropolitan College, (validated by Liverpool JMU) followed by a
Fellowship in 2007. My work is exhibited widely in the North West of England,
nationally and internationally, most recently in the Florence Biennial 2011.
For
more information please visit my website or contact me should you be interested
in a commission or to view other collections of my work.
