LOCATION: London, UK.
DID YOU HAVE ANY FORMAL TRAINING? Self taught.
SUBJECT OF CHOICE: Print Making / Painting City Lit Covent Garden printmaking courses.
MEDIUM OF CHOICE: Etching
WHAT INSPIRES YOU? Please see my personal statement below.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ARTISTIC AMBITIONS THAT YOU ARE WORKING TOWARDS? This year I have worked on the David Shepherd Pangolin Fundraiser selling etchings with a proportion going to charity. I also have illustrated the cover of the United Nations COP26 Conference publicity in Autumn in Glasgow. So I want to do more work with fundraising and conservation.
LINKS TO:
Website: outsidein.org.uk
Facebook: Jack Haslam
Instagram: haslam492
Flickr: Jack Haslam
DO YOU OFFER WORKSHOPS / TUITION / COMMISSIONS? Commissions.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
My work is about friendship, loyalty and control. My love for animals has been a major influence in my life and is a driving force for my work. What others might consider minor and unimportant details are the things that inspire my work. I am fascinated by the minutiae of different animals: the gorilla’s cheeks and the anteater’s claws. my portraits of animals appear fanciful, majestic and, at times, desperate. My cognitive problems mean that I have difficulty relating to humans. I find them unfathomable at times. Animals help me manage my feelings of isolation and allow me to build bridges with people.
Although I see myself as a printmaker, I also paint, make models and take photographs. In my early work, I often used dolls which became the vessels of my hopes and dreams. My work enables me to act out concepts I find it hard to understand through other means. my need for control is a theme running through all subjects and media. I have to keep things still in order to record the moment. I am always searching for things that I think exist, but in fact do not. In my frustration, I try to make them materialise through my work. For this reason, i tend to use repetition and recurring images.
I had two one-man shows in 2018 (in London and Leicester). I am currently experimenting with digital embroidery and glass and organising a wildlife conservation field trip.
My work has been sold on the mall galleries buy art I buy now website and I have recently sold several pieces here and in my other exhibitions.
STUDY
I studied printmaking and painting at city lit and the mary ward centre in London. I have also taken various art courses at the national gallery and the national portrait gallery.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2021 Figurative Art Now - Mall Galleries -Artist Feature prize
2021 Shape Arts commission -Arc -painting the climate crisis
2021 Royal Society of painters in watercolours 2021 Presidents Prize
2021 Artworks together -Tony Heaton OBE prize
2020 /21 DSWF 2021 nomination Wildlife artist of the year
2019 Shape Open -peoples choice award
2019 royal watercolour society publicity award, contemporary open 2019, bankside gallery, London
2017 50th anniversary limited edition print for shape arts celebrations
2014 student of the year, city lit printmaking, covent garden
2016 people’s choice award, shape open, stratford gallery
2014 – 2018 nominations for dswf wildlife artist of the year, mall galleries London.
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND E-ZINE FEATURES
2019 the royal watercolour society contemporary open, bankside gallery, London (publicity award)
2019 unit 6 studio/gallery ‘let it out’, Richmond, Yorkshire
2019 ‘wake up screaming’ edition 17, the mind e-zine
2019 ‘criercrowd’ e-zine, first edition lebenstraum and before
2018 one man show, Attenborough arts centre, Leicester (funded by the arts council)
2018 one man show, tooting hospital, London
2018 david shepherd wildlife exhibition, mall gallery, london
2018 shape open, the ecology centre, Bethnal green, London
2016 royal society of british artists, mall galleries, London
2016 shape open digital embroidery (my life, guest projects) Bethnal green, London
2016 lynne painter stainer prize, mall galleries, london
2015 david shepherd wildlife exhibition, mall gallery, london
2014 royal society of portrait painters, mall gallery, London
2014 shape arts pop-up gallery, westfield, stratford, London
2013 Shape auction at the chocolate factory, wood green, London
2013 tight modern, liberty stadium, London
2013 the impact art fair, Brixton, London
2013 david shepherd wildlife exhibition, dswf, mall gallery, London
2013 dswf gallery, surrey
2013 shape in the city, gracechurch street, London
2013 see hear documentary, shape in the city, London
2013 creative journeys, hackney museum, London
2012 swla the natural eye, mall gallery, london
2012 bite printmakers – etchings, mall gallery, London
2012 tight modern gallery, brighton and hackney, London
2012 affordable art fair, artichoke, hampstead, London
2012 exhibition of etchings, London zoo, London
2012 shape open exhibition, Portobello gallery, London
2011 the hankie show, London printmakers trust
2005 moma wales, the tabernacle gallery, wales