"Hallum's painting is charged with delight in colour, line, surface
and composition, in powerfully unconventional ways." - Hettie Judah
This is the first monograph on the London-born, Devon-based artist
Jacqui Hallum. The publication documents Hallum's solo exhibition
at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (10 October 2019 - 1 March
2020), along with a series of solo, two-person and group
exhibitions held between 2014 and 2020. Hallum is best-known for
her mixed-media paintings on textiles - techniques she has
developed and refined over the course of twenty years since
completing her studies. Incorporating imagery and visual languages
ranging from medieval woodcuts and stained-glass windows to Art
Nouveau children's illustrations, tarot cards and Berber rugs,
Hallum employs ink staining, painting, drawing and printing to
create layers of pattern, abstraction and passages of figurative
imagery. As part of her working process, Hallum often leaves the
fabrics in the open air, exposed to the elements, in order to
introduce weathering into the works. History, religion, mysticism
and the beliefs and creativity of past civilisations are among the
themes that overlap - often in a literal sense of pieces of fabrics
layered, pinned, draped and hung together - to form painterly
palimpsests that carry a sense of the past with them into the
present. Along with a foreword by Professor Caroline Wilkinson,
Director of the School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores
University, and an introductory essay by artist, curator and
director of Kingsgate Workshops and Project Space in London, Dan
Howard-Birt, the publication features newly commissioned essays by
arts journalist and critic Hettie Judah and by Andrew Hunt,
Professor of Fine Art and Curating at the University of Manchester.
Also featured is the edited transcript of a conversation between
Hallum and Howard-Birt held at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Jacqui Hallum (b.1977, London) graduated with a BA in Fine Art from
Coventry School of Art& Design, Coventry University, in 1999,
and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art,
University of London, in 2002. Hallum's solo exhibition at The
Walker Art Gallery followed a three-month fellowship at Liverpool
John Moores University, which resulted from winning the prestigious
John Moores Painting Prize in 2018. The monograph, designed by
work-form and edited by Susan Taylor, has been produced by
Kingsgate Project Space and co-published with Anomie Publishing.
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