The transformation from the mundane to the extraordinary is a persistent theme within Hilary Jack's work. Jack collects broken and discarded material, from a variety of sources, then transforms and rejuvenates her subjects, occasionally returning them to their previous locations. Hauled back from the brink of oblivion her actions become an absurd and nonsensical act of repair, which intentionally deprives the object of its original purpose, rendering it useless. This metamorphosis of everyday material into functionless art objects have uncanny and melancholic connotations which invite the viewer to re-explore the abandoned objects anew. The flotsam and jetsam of everyday life re arranged to comment on a countryside under threat, a domestic home damaged, while making ingenious use of unwanted detritus and reinvigorating the lost and abandoned into an elegiac narrative.

Hilary is currently showing in a group show, If on a Winters Night A Traveller at August Art, London and at Glasgow School of Art with Brian Griffiths, Roy Voss, Othmar Vassur and Ellen Wilkinson. A solo show at Carter Presents , Singing Through the Fog opens in London on January 27th.

Hilary is pleased to announce that she has been selected for The Tatton Park Biennial 2012 a leading contemporary art event curated by Danielle Arnaud and Jordan Kaplan located in and around Tatton Hall.  http://www.tattonparkbiennial.org/

Recent exhibitions include Memory Flash at Carter Presents , London, and her first UK solo show; And Scent of Pine and The Woodthrush Singing at Castlefield Gallery. http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/.The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by curator and writer Dr Axel Lapp and a second incarnation of And Scent of Pine and The Woodthrush Singing will take place at Carter Presents, London in 2012.  www.carterpresents.org