SHOW: ‘Manifest’ at The Stable Gallery

Between April 29th and May 2nd this year I had the privilege of being a part of The Stable Gallery’s debut show. An outcome of the pandemic and lockdown, the launch of this gallery by my daughter Evie Jacobs was born out of a necessity to be creative due to lack of opportunities and develop and build projects closer to home. Manifest was a collaboration between Sally Sole and myself, and was an exciting opportunity to bring our work together. We discovered many areas of common ground from the rigorous investigation undertaken in order to pursue concerns found in plain sight to the nuances of colour and material linking the work to create more than a sum of its parts.

Sally works with found and discarded material, relocating and investigating their potential. She explores the relationship between architecture, light and colour, often shifting between the material and the immaterial. Light gives the work a three dimensionality that attempts to make manifest our experiences of time and space. My practice also works with found material, with the objective of unearthing meaning contained within the experience of the object. Concerned with significance already in the world, the core inquiry centres around the space between knowing and not knowing, laying bare the prejudice of perception.

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As artists we share the lived experience of migration, finding ourselves as neighbours in a foreign land far from home. Situated in a quintessential English village the gallery was an ideal setting to explore our experiences of place. From the air we breath to the earth we walk on, we bring our gaze from far away places to make manifest the new land we now call home. To manifest is to make clear or evident to the eye and to show plainly that which is in front of us. The show at The Stable Gallery has been an invaluable experience in bringing place a little closer and realising that we do not need to look far to see it.