Jacqui Barrowcliffe North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Jacqui Barrowcliffe lives and works in North Yorkshire where her practice focuses on exploring human connections to nature and evolving environmental threats. She works across disciplines but is particularly drawn to photography and installation, often responding to a specific space or context through temporary interventions.

Inspired by her everyday surroundings her work reflects on themes such as loss, impermanence and processes of change. Her work considers the fragile relationship between nature and human infrastructure, with a particular focus on rising sea levels and coastal erosion. In ongoing projects along this theme she experiments with the cyanotype process as a medium in itself to explore these ideas, with work including site specific installations in a beach hut, an abandoned building and an empty shop window. The multi-disciplinary nature of her practice gives her the freedom to experiment and push her ideas to utilise and repurpose a wide variety of materials, and recent projects include working with an office printer, a nanny cam, found bricks and sand, amongst other things, to create a video installation, an experimental performance, and a collaborative piece as part of a recent residency at an alternative gallery space in London.

She has exhibited in group shows around the UK as well as renowned photography festivals in Barcelona, and particularly enjoys working in non-gallery spaces.

A big part of Jacqui’s practice involves working with the community, developing projects and workshops that promote and enhance our connection to nature and generate conversations around climate issues. Recent collaborations include a project with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and arts and science organisation Invisible Dust.