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 has shown across the UK and Internationally. She is currently showing in Flights of Fancy The Tatton Park Biennial 2012 http://www.tattonparkbiennial.org/  Recent solo shows include And Scent of Pine and The Wood Thrush Singing at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; ...Singing through the Fog at Carter Presents, London and group shows; 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.