Hilary Jack works across media in research based projects which often involve the collection, repair and rejuvenation of discarded and broken material collected from city streets, charity shops and ebay. The objects she is drawn to are often imbued with a strong sense of human presence, and reference the increasingly accelerated journey objects make 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 in Making and Mending at Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Sufffolk and has recently taken part in CRESC Annual Conference  at manchester metropolitan University in "Objects What Matters?". In July she exhibited 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.