Approved: 02.03.2009

Jacki Storey

Artist, Film-maker, Lecturer / academic, Maker, Teacher

Approved: 02.03.2009

My work investigates the ability of light to reveal and conceal objects and spaces, and is particularly influenced by Freud's notions of the uncanny and Proust's narrative of the transitional. Camera Obscura Projective Installations explore and extend the artistic potential of the camera obscura to perceptually transform objects and spaces by exploiting its unique visual qualities. These pertain

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Artist Statement

My work investigates the ability of light to reveal and conceal objects and spaces, and is particularly influenced by Freud's notions of the uncanny and Proust's narrative of the transitional. Camera Obscura Projective Installations explore and extend the artistic potential of the camera obscura to perceptually transform objects and spaces by exploiting its unique visual qualities. These pertain to immediacy and directness, and possess a unique visual 'feel' where two dimensional imagery strongly suggests three dimensions. Although apparently tangible, projected imagery appears to reside in a void where there is an absence of surrounding visual reference. However, unlike conventional camera obscura projections, these involve synchronicity, juxtaposition, transparency and transition and the manipulation of ordinary objects. Whilst initially experienced in real time as installations, unmediated recordings are also available for film screening. Alongside live and recorded moving imagery, I use long exposure Pinhole Photography to trace and capture in single images, the passage of time as light slowly moves over objects and spaces.

CV & Education

Qualifications and training 2006 - PhD Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Glos 2001 - MA Fine Art Sculpture (Distinction), University of Gloucestershire 2000 - BA Fine Art Sculpture (Hons), Cheltenham & Glos College of Higher Education Solo exhibitions 2010 - Other Spaces, Sundial Theatre , Cirencester, Glos 2008 - 'Vanitas' and 'Uncanny Spaces', Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham Group exhibitions 2010 - Transfixed Motion/The Transitory Still, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield 2009 - Film screening, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, Somerset 2009 - Season 8 Outcasting, Outcasting - online screening, www.outcasting.org 2009 - Unique Perspectives, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Lancs 2008 - MIR Festival, Athens, Greece 2008 - Moving Things, Annexinema iii, Stand Assembly Studios, Nottingham; Residencies 2010 - Artist Residency, Brisons Veor Trust, Cape Cornwall Private commissions 2009 - Camera Obscura , St Augustines Farm, Arlingham, Gloucestershire Public commissions 2009 - Pinhole Photography - 'Ghosts in the Attic' , Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 'Through the Pinhole' exhibition of pinhole photography of and at Newark Park,National Trust, Glos 2014; Museum Box Project,Space Place Practice, Aberystwyth University School of Art, 2015; 'Taking Time' Photography exhibition at Ruskin Mill Gallery, Nailsworth, Glos 2015;  Album cover for 'Dust' for Aqueousart 2015; Glos; Exhibition of Pinhole Photography at Wotton Gallery, Wotton under Edge, Glos 2016.