Jacqui Hallum
Following her MA at the Slade, Hallum moved to Dundee where she served on the committee of the innovative artist run space GENERATORprojects. She now lives and works in the south of England. Her paintings represent an exploration into relationships between figure and ground. Forms and contours in the paintings are enabled by a practiced understanding of (organic) forms in the observed world. It is an open-ended negotiation of marks and colour towards a point when representation is on the threshold of becoming fixed. This fluid negotiation of painterly space is affirmed in richly varied media such as distemper, oil paint glazes and crystal-forming sulphates. Chosen primarily for colour properties, they often have secondary characteristics, such as the crystalline chemistry forming ‘found’ contours.
Stone to Bloom
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Painting
33cm x 46cm
Oil, Panel
Many diverse elements combine in each of Hallum’s works, for which this is only a broad introduction. Each piece is a field of marks, which begin to build a coalescence through the carefully worked process. Her work could be seen as essential painting, offering the viewer as much a material relationship as a visual one. Her titles offer a route into the work, often drawn from literary, academic or journalistic texts, though they never explain or describe it.
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