Hilary Jack
I have a research-based practice. I work across all media in site referential artworks, sculptural installations and interventions. My work has an activist element which comments on the politics of place, socio- political and environmental issues. I am co-founder of Paradise Works.
Since Graduating from an MA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art I have built a reputation for presenting large scale, critically engaged, and challenging site referential artworks which draw out the peculiarities and histories of location and the politics of a particular place. I work with a small but trusted team, that in the past have consisted of art technicians, an architect, structural engineer, fabricator, bronze caster, gardeners and arbore-culturalists.
My work is in private and public collections including recent acquisitions for The Government Art Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, Alnoba Sculpture Park New York and Salford University Arts Collection. I am represented by Division of Labour.
I have exhibited across the UK and Internationally, working with private and public galleries, and heritage sites. Recent exhibitions and commissions include: Seaview at Salisbury Cathedral 2024; Deluge, The Leadenhall Building as part of the 13 th Edition of Sculpture in the City, City of London 2024; Medusa, Union Gallery London; The Lost Voice Spoken by Others, The Whitaker, Rossendale 2025; No Borders for OPENAIR at Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2018-2022 with 2nd and 3rd editions on the roof of The Custard Factory, Birmingham 2023-present day, and in the collection of Alnoba Sculpture Park, New York; Deluge, commissioned by Meadow Arts for Watermark, a multi site exhibition the city of Worcester 2023 touring to Pershore Abbey 2023; Host, The Spinningfields Art Commission 2017; Flights of Fancy The Tatton Park Biennial; Interlude, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin; Conflux 06, multi site exhibition New York.
I work with Extinction Rebellion and other environmental movements to support their creative actions.