Jacqui Barrowcliffe

Jacqui Barrowcliffe lives and works in Scarborough where her practice focuses on exploring human connections to nature and evolving environmental threats. Inspired by her everyday surroundings, her work reflects on themes such as loss, impermanence and processes of change. She works across disciplines but is particularly drawn to photography and installation, often working with a combination of digital and alternative photographic practices, video, text, performance and found objects. She particularly enjoys responding to a specific space or context through temporary interventions. Since moving from an urban to a more rural environment a few years ago, her work has increasingly become concerned with the fragile relationship between the natural world and human infrastructure, with a particular focus on the effects of rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Her environmental concerns impact her creative process too, as she tries to work where possible with materials with a low carbon footprint, often recycling and repurposing, and questioning what she feels the need to produce and why.

Aqua, terra, (f)lux (ii)

Cyanotype

44cm x 33cm (including frame)

2023

£175

A series of works that use the cyanotype process to explore the meeting point of land, water and light. Inspired by my walks on the beach observing the patterns formed by the clay that trickles down from the cliffs onto the beach and towards the sea. Using this very same clay, I experiment to let it create its own trace on cyanotype coated paper that is then left to expose over a period of time. This ongoing project wishes to reflect on the processes that shape and affect landforms over time and the constant flux of the shoreline.