Jacqui Barrowcliffe
Working across various disciplines, but mainly photography and installation, Jacqui's work focuses on process and impermanence. Inspired by both domestic and natural environments she responds to her everyday surroundings to develop a narrative that is both personal and universal. Her work aims to connect with the viewer on an emotional level, through pieces that explore themes such as loss, memories and change, reflecting on the traces we leave behind. Since moving to the North Yorkshire coast her work has increasingly focused on change and impermanence in the natural world, using the photographic process cyanotype as a medium to explore this.
Jacqui Barrowcliffe
Working across various disciplines, but mainly photography and installation, Jacqui's work focuses on process and impermanence. Inspired by both domestic and natural environments she responds to her everyday surroundings to develop a narrative that is both personal and universal. Her work aims to connect with the viewer on an emotional level, through pieces that explore themes such as loss, memories and change, reflecting on the traces we leave behind. Since moving to the North Yorkshire coast her work has increasingly focused on change and impermanence in the natural world, using the photographic process cyanotype as a medium to explore this.
Light on the darkest days
Installation; cyanotype on paper, brass plaque, bench
This project uses the fundamental elements of photography to reflect on light as an element that can be perceived and recorded, but also as something more spiritual. Inspired by memorial benches looking out to sea, using the photographic process cyanotype I sit and “register" the light over winter, the darkest time of year. It is neither a scientific nor documentary record, but rather an emotional response to a specific place and ritual. The contemplation of a moment of light. A reminder, a memory, a hope. A life, a loved one. Finding there is light even on the darkest days.
