Jack Built explores biography, transparency, materiality and objecthood. The text was commissioned by Goldsmiths CCA in 2020, as a response to the exhibition Transparent Things.
Between Us, published with Moxy Magazine in 2020. The text considers a plaster study by the sculptor Rodin, Balzac Étude de Robe de Chambre in relation to autobiography and the bodies of others.
Untitled (Barricades), is an essay with an accompanying poster, exploring place and memory. The text was written in response to time I spent as an artist-in-residence at VASL Artist Collective, Karachi Pakistan, in 2012, as part of the Gasworks International Fellowship programme.
On Collectivity and On Loneliness were written to accompany the exhibition MY (We), produced in collaboration with Katie Schwab for Jerwood Arts in 2012. Click HERE for an excerpt from the booklet produced for the project (design Helios Capdevila).