Hilary Jack works across media in socially interactive research based projects which involve the “repair” and re-use of found objects collected from city streets, charity shops and ebay. The work takes on a mildly activist edge referencing the excesses of an economy based on built in obsolescence, while highlighting our intimate relationship with material goods.

Recent exhibitons include; “E8”, at Transition Gallery London, “Meeting Point”, at Axel lapp Projects Berlin, “Extreme Crafts”, at The Centre for Contempoary Art Vilnius, Lithuania and Conflux, New York.

Hilary is also co-curator of Apartment, an artist led project and exhibition space in a one-bedroom flat on the sixth floor of a city centre council tower block in Manchester. Here, with artist and resident Paul Harfleet , emerging and established artists are invited to make new site referential work which is placed amongst Paul’s already existing everyday objects.

 

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Education:
2003    Tihany International Post Graduate Programme, The Hungarian Academy of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary and Goldsmiths College, London
2002-2003    MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

1993-1995    BA(Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

2008:
Café Artistique, in collaboartion with Sally O Reilly for Axis at Sale Waterside
One minute, The Directors Lounge, Berlin, curated by Kerry Baldry
Sex and Witchcraft, group show, Transition Gallery, London
Grupo Forgia, curated by Ima Pico, various sites Valencia
Art Transpennine 08, multi site curatorial project with Paul Harfleet

Selected Exhibitions:
2007
E8, Transition Gallery, London, (catalogue)
Extreme Crafts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lithuania
Meeting Point, group show, Interludes, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, selected by Axel Lapp, Berlin.
The World is my Imagination, CUBE, Manchester, (commissioned installation) curated by Andrea Zapp.
One Minute, Video Programme, selected by Kerry Baldry, various sites throughour UK, Europe and Russia.

2006
Make do and Mend, off site project, Transition Gallery, London.
Make do and Mend, Conflux 2006, multi site exhibition in conjunction with McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. www.glowlab.com/conflux
Home, video programme, Flat, selected by David Wilkinson Budapest, Hungary.
We Belong Everywhere, Various public sites in Sheffield, curated by Anachron-gen. www.webelongeverywhere.co.uk  
Visitor Assistance in collaboration with Paul Harfleet, commissioned by Cornerhouse as part of a series of live events entitled Social Work selected by James Hutchinson and Kathy Rae Huffman

2005
Cyclists Dismount, Apartment Collective, Apartment, Manchester  www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com
Turquoise Bag in a Tree, commissioned video installation and public inventions, The Bigger Picture, Exchange Square, Manchester,(selectors Kathy Rae Huffman, Cornerhouse, Kate Taylor, The Bigger Picture, ICA Film Festival)
Conversations on Feminism, group show, Cornerhouse, Manchester, (in collaboration with Poppy Stephenson) Catalogue

2004
Surveillance,Group Show, Three Colts Gallery, London.
Do Something For Floating Ip, Floating Ip, Manchester.
Twoeightone, Transient Gallery, Manchester and Tokyo.
Gallery 32, London W1, London Biennial of Contemporary Art 04
Art Trans Pennine, Trans Pennine Region, curated by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson. www.artranspennine04.org.uk
Waygood International Art Fayre, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
Wipe, group show, publication, Geelong, Australia

2003
Kunst Gulag, Hungarian Academy of Fine Art, Budapest. Curated by Beata Veszely and David Wilkinson, Goldsmiths College London.
Dark and Disturbing Things Ov Arup, Manchester.
The Eve of Destruction (curated by Vilma Gold) at International 3
Beyond The Endgame, Manchester Art Gallery (assistant curator with Ben Cook, catalogue)
Thermo 03, The Lowry, Salford.
www.turquoisebaginatree.com ongoing web based solo project.
Wallpaper (solo) Comme Ca Art, Timber Wharf Gallery, Manchester

2002
Ladies Only, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Independents, Liverpool, curated by Caroline Black.
Wish You Were Where?, (commission for the reopening of Manchester Art Gallery) with Debbie Goldsmith, The Clore Inter-Active Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery.
Re-Use, Collect Gallery, Liverpool.
On the Spot, Comme Ca Art, Debenhams Windows, Manchester

2001
Commission, for the relocation of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
The Second Builders Arms Summer Bieniale, International 3, Manchester.
Consequences, Salford Art Gallery, Salford
Record Collection, International 3, Manchester and The Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Grid (solo) Comme Ca Art, Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester

Bursaries, nominations, Commissions and Awards:
The World is My Imagination, commissioned by Andrea Zapp and CUBE.
Overlap Symposium, Budapest (invited participant) facilitated by Hungarian Academy of Fine Art and Goldsmiths College London.
The Wrong Place, bursary to attend conference, selected by Claire Doherty, Situations, University of West of England.
Turquoise Bag in a Tree, commissioned by Kate Taylor and Kathy Rae Huffman at Cornerhouse for new video work.
Nominated for Beck’s Futures 2002 and 2003

Collections:
Hungarian Academy of Fine Art
Manchester Art Gallery
Castlefield Gallery
The Collection of Ian Simpson Architects at No. 1 Deansgate, Manchester.
Numerous Private Collections