Jessica Mallock

“Thinking of the photograph as an object makes photography itself available as a material. With this starting point, I attempt to explore simultaneously – both the spaces of photography – the space within the frame (the internal space of the image) and the overlooked space the photograph physically occupies (its context).

Making sculptural works using photographs is an attempt to test the boundaries of both photography and art.

“These works are further informed by my apparently contradictory obligations: to keep house and to make art, offering an attempt to fold together the space between these seemingly polar urges.

Using formal considerations of art production and display applied to more prosaic or mundane activities (and vice versa) I attempt to draw parallels between these areas of activity and explore where they coincide: imposing order (arranging and display), maintaining (preservation and archive), and sustaining (repetition, invention and re-invention). The resulting works are ‘marriages’ of ideas, elements and processes laid bare.”