Hilary Jack works across media in research based projects which often involve the collection, and repair of broken and discarded material collected from city streets, charity shops and ebay. The objects she is drawn to are imbued with a strong sense of human presence and reference the increasingly accelerated journey objects take from production to consumption, obsolescence and decay.

The work takes on a mildly activist edge, sometimes parodying ineffectual attempts by governments, organisations and individuals at societal and environmental improvements, and highlights the inadequacy of action in the face of mass consumption and global waste.

With world economies in free fall, recycling policies in crisis and society being forced to adopt a make do and mend approach the work has a particularly current resonance.

Hilary is a published writer and also has a collaborative curatorial practice with Paul Harfleet having together co-founded Apartment in 2003 and co curated Artranspennine08.

Hilary is currently showing at Castlefield Gallery in The Social Lives of Objects with Dallas Seitz and Lisa Penny and at Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool in Dumb Objects with Ian Rawlinson and Leo Fitzmaurice.