Working in metal, Jacky creates small hand held objects through to large scale architectural pieces for commissions, residencies and exhibitions. Having initally trained as a jeweller, Jacky has developed a broad and open approach to fluidly developed ideas, drawing from a range of metalwork techniques and processes, include soldering, piercing, etching and enamelling, as well as blacksmithing and silversmithing techniques. This allows Jacky's approach to each piece to respond sensitively to the subject matter, with each project being completley unique. Her work brings together narratives from a range of sources, contemporary and historic, including archive material, interviews and handwritten notes. Scrutinishing both form and surface, she strives to bring the material to life, interrogating its qualities, celebrating the hands on manipulation of the material. Jaky investigates how elements can be combined to create artefacts, which stimulate viewers to consider and reflect on the piece on a number of levels. Collaged surfaces, with cut through details of archive material, are often supported on a linear structure. Using light and shows in her work, allows the viewer to see beyond, a sometimes complex structure, to a simpler bolder message.
Jacky was selected by the Crafts Council for COllect Open in 2020 and awarded an Arts Council Project Grant. In 2022 she was awarded the Cockpit Bursary by the Worshipful Company of Tinplate alias Wireworkers and in the same year was commissioned by Somerset Rural Life Museum, to create an installation for the "Horse Power" exhibition. During her residencies she has created work that is now in the permanent collections of Poole Museum and Teignmouth and Shaldon Museum. For her University of Leicester Botantic Garden residency, she created three sculptures, now on permanent display in its grounds. She is currently the Bunhill Artist in Residence in Islington, London.
