Melanie Jackson: Hot Flash

Sat 15 Feb 2025 - Sat 12 Apr 2025

Category

Price

Free

Time

Open Mon – Sat, 10.30am – 5.30pm

Melanie Jackson: Hot Flash

Hot Flash is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, animation and drawing by Melanie Jackson, that brings together two bodies of recent work, Rouge Flambé and Spekyng Rybawdy, in a pair of installations across Exeter Phoenix’s two gallery spaces. Together, they present us with an assembly of conceptual nomads, drawn from medieval sculptures of dissent; to incendiary (colonial) trading histories; to a fascination with technoscience’s visions and chimeras.

Throughout, Jackson presents a world of absurd and inventive beings, rich with humour, dissent, subversion, delight, hilarity, titillation and surprise. Her work opens up an important lineage of visual methods and vocabularies of resistance, and ways of imagining alternative power structures for self determination, as well as challenging ways such images may be used to uphold violences of control and exclusion.

The exhibition has been supported by the Royal College of Art and the University of Plymouth.


ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

Exhibition Launch: Sat 15 February, 3–5pm, free.
Join the artist to celebrate the opening day of their new exhibition.

Artist’s Talk: Sat 22 Mar, 12.00pm, free (booking required).
Join the artist for an informal discussion with Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.


About the artist:

Melanie Jackson (UK) is an artist and educator who works with modes of nonfiction storytelling through assemblages of sculpture, writing and moving image. She lives and works between London and the South West of England. Her work has a focus on bio-technologies, at shifting scales from the nanoscale to the planetary. There is a concern with abstractions and circulatory systems. Ur-formations. Polyphony. Exclusions. Intimacies. She draws out tales of excess and the absurd, and inventive ways of getting by. The gallery is used to stage different tactics of representation: mimicry, documentary, myth fabrication, science, performance, humour, animation, political commentary, music, installation, craft and the cultivation of aesthetic delight.

https://melaniejackson.net


VENUE: PHOENIX GALLERY

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