Approved: 05.01.2018

Jaykoe

Artist, Curator

Approved: 05.01.2018

Current work explores globalisation through its accelerated impact on city space. Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities. 

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    Artist Statement

    Current work explores globalisation through its accelerated impact on city space. Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities. 

    Areas of research are mapped out across the metropolis, shifting contours that fluctuate over the gridlines of the city like the movements of Parkour, probing the structures of the centres we build up, the forms they take and questioning what they reveal about us. 

    Drawing is the foundation of the work, overlaid with an approach to each project that actively combines and assimilates new materials and techniques in experimental forms. This interdisciplinary approach ranges through drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, neon, performance, books and other works on paper.

    Enquiries into movements of cultural resistance are layered with a background as a sound-system DJ. This resonates throughout the work, formally with the application of the techniques used in audio sampling to visual material and conceptually with pirate radio as a metaphor for the notion of networked performances across global cities, all with the potential to construct spaces of positive interaction between different groups and cultures.

    CV & Education

    Education
    2008 – 2012
    MA Fine Art (Distinction), The Cass, London, UK

    Solo Installations
    2010
    Dependency Theory, New London Theatre, London, UK

    Two Person Exhibitions
    2017
    Overstand (Postcolonial Sampler) Studio 73, Brixton, London, UK
    2013
    10×10 • SAMPLED SPACE, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK

    Selected Group Exhibitions
    2017
    Filtered, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
    PIAF, Peckham International Art Fair, London, UK
    #9Topics, TRIAD, London, UK
    2016
    Design & Architecture, Studio 73, London, UK
    ArtRooms & MTArt Conference 2016, London, UK
    2015
    hundreds and thousands, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
    Battersea Art Station, Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK
    2014
    The Singapore Art Fair, Singapore
    ArtGemini Prize, TriSpace Gallery, London, UK
    Screen City Lab, Riga, Latvia
    Artist’s Film, BFI Southbank, London, UK
    2013
    Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, UK
    Screen City, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
    Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Germany
    Tower Bridge (Engine Rooms), Tower Bridge, London, UK
    2012
    KISS THE FUTURE, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
    Feeling The Pressure, Rhyl Museum, Wales (Highly Commended)
    FILE, SESI Gallery / FIESP Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
    2011
    Opening Night at the Castro, Castro Theater, San Francisco, USA
    Online Show One, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, fermynwoods.co.uk
    2010
    VIDEOKILLS, HomeBase, Berlin, Germany
    2008
    Global Cities Project, DFG West, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
    One year travelling around the world, overland where possible, connecting global cities, documented in photographs, drawings & videos.

    Awards
    2017
    Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
    2013
    New Creative Markets (Grant), Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
    EU Regional Development Fund (De Minimis Aid)
    2011
    Europol Art Prize, Category A Prize, The Hague, Netherlands
    (Work selected for display in the office of the Director of Europol)

    Collections
    BlackRock, Inc. New York, USA & Milan, Italy
    Mills College Book Art Collection, Oakland, California, USA
    Noor Al Dabbagh, UAE
    Private Collections (UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Georgia, Australia, USA)