Artists

Jacqueline Wylie

 

 

Jacqueline Wylie explores how value is assigned to fine art materials and processes. Fascinated by in-between spaces, ‘othered’ or ‘outsider’ art, her art practice deals with inequalities and hidden history, for example her work with wool and the more recent documentation of rituals in Northern Ireland, where Wylie grew up at the height of the ‘troubles’.

“My practice is based around hand and machine knitting using a variety of materials, and also includes video, photography, and text based pieces.  I prefer to use simple, readily available materials and processes – pencil, pen, wool, photocopier, computer, mobile phone, as it is the ideas behind art that interest me most, not the processes, or ‘craft’, as such. These materials/methods often appear in combination in my art, they serve to transform the work, to add layers of meaning.” 

Wylie is currently continuing to produce knitted paintings, developing a group of new works for the Great Northern Craft Fair taking place at Manchester Grammar school in October 2008. For more information about this event visit: http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/

 

 

Education:

1996 – 1999     BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent           
1988 –1990     MA Building Conservation, School of Architecture, Manchester University
1980 –1983     BA (Hons) History & Archaeology, St David’s University College, Lampeter, Wales


Selected Exhibitions:

2006  Chorlton Arts Festival, Commission for 3 site specific text pieces

2006    Smallpond Studio website launch and exhibition

2006    House on Fire, Solomon Grundy, Withington                             

 

2005    Knitted Poems at the Met Met Arts Centre, Market St., Bury. Solo show. As part of the International Festival of Text Art at Bury

2005     On the Shelf, Compartment, Manchester                                                            

 

2004   Ritual Bodies co-curating an artists’ intervention into the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
during the Liverpool Biennial. Edited catalogue.

2004   Processor, group show, Warsaw Projects Space, Manchester

2004    twoeightone mail art event  EX008

2004    twoeightone EX007, Artist-led exhibition, Manchester

 

2003    Displacement at aKa Studios, Crewe. Knitted poems.

2003    Beyond the Endgame: Abstract Painting in Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery

 

2002   Artist in Residence at Bolton Institute Dept of Art & Design

2002   Artstation Crewe. Video work and knitted paintings.                                      

 

2001   Spatial Limits Inaugural show at Chorlton Mill Gallery, Manchester

2001   Art in St Mary Magdalene Knitting/sound installation in group show

2001   Noiz, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester

2001   Brighton Icons, group show,St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton

2000    Art in the Café The Cornerhouse, Manchester.  Solo show.      

2000    Multi-Storey, artwork featured in two issues of new literary and arts magazine based in Manchester. Viewable at www.multistorey.co.uk                                          

2000    Arty Crafty, Potteries Museum, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

2000    Rumpelstiltskin, Solo show, Cajobah Gallery, Birkenhead, Liverpool

1999    Inbetween, Galleriet Uten Navn, Oslo, Norway. Co-curated show

1999    Graduate Show, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent

1999    Woman Artists Diary 2000, The Women’s Press, Illustrations, including front cover

 

1998   vision 21. Exhibited photographs at the Tunnel Night-club, New York, USA

 

1997    highly unlikely. A 100ft knitted installation at the Ancient High House, Stafford

1997   Mail Art. Participated in international thread art exchange to Japan

 

 

  

 

 


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