JAN MCCULLOUGH WORKS WITH PHOTOGRAPHY, MOVING IMAGE, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION. HER WORK EXPLORES HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE CAN BE USED TO CONSTRUCT AND PRODUCE NEW INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE EXPRESSIONS OF SELF.
ARTIST BIO
Jan McCullough is currently Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Lightwork in Syracuse, New York (2020-2021) and participated in the Freelands Artist Programme at PS² (2018-2020). Her work has been nominated for Pla(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize (2016); The International Centre for Photography New York Infinity Award (2016); and won the British Journal of Photography Breakthrough Award (2016). Her book ‘Home Instruction Manual’, published by Verlag Kettler, was awarded the Kassel Fotobookfestival Dummy Award and shortlisted for the Recontres D’Arles Author Book Award (2016). Recent solo exhibitions include The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry (2020-2021); Seen Fifteen Gallery, London (2016); Belfast Exposed Futures Gallery, Northern Ireland (2016); and The Gallery, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Freelands Gallery, London (2021); Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, South Korea (2019); Filter Space, Chicago, USA (2018); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2018); and Landskrona Museum, Sweden (2016).
#2 from the series Constructions, 2019, Jan McCullough, 72cm x 58cm, Framed archival pigment print (dibond mounted)
Sketchbook for Tricks of the Trade, 2020, Jan McCullough, Colour palette: biro blue, voltage red, docket pink
Recent work has included sculptural, material responses to how the camera mediates, encounters and transforms built space and can question how we locate ourselves in it. Other work has explored how people use photography when improving their own lives in a world where desires are shaped by, and affect, advertising and the photographic image
An installation of shot of Tricks of the Trade, Jan McCullough, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 2018.
Install at CCA, Derry/Londonderry (Instagram 2020)
Remote Residency for Lightwork in Syracuse, New York, 2020-2021
TITLE
Jigs for [the Fabrication and Assembly of] Stool Legs
ARTIST
Jan McCullough
ABOUT THE WORK
Jigs for [the Fabrication and Assembly of] Stool Legs is part of a new series of images titled Jigs. To create this series, the artist collaborated with a number of fabricators to make a series of temporary architectural landscapes using their jigs – wooden custom made shapes that are used as tools to assist in the repeated cutting, placing and securing of their materials – in sculptural installations that she photographed. The fabricators included scenic construction workers who support the film and TV industry that has come to dominate the East Belfast docklands area in place of more traditional manufacturing industries. Their highly skilled labour involves staging partial cityscapes; slices of town scenes, portions of buildings etc. Much of their work is to create the unseen structures that underpin the authenticity of the sets.
These images are intended as a series of temporary monuments to the inventive nature and evocative gestures of this usually invisible labour, and to a changing city.
Jigs for [the Fabrication and Assembly of] Stool Legs was made as part of To Make a Monument, a multi-year project by Jan McCullough produced in collaboration with Household that explores untold acts and histories of labour, care and maintenance; fabrication and DIY; and the communities that form around them.
DATE
2024
DIMENSIONS
49cm x 35cm
MEDIUM
Framed archival pigment print (dibond mounted)
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 5
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jan McCullough works with photography, moving image, sculpture and installation. Her work explores how the photographic image can be used to construct and produce new individual and collective expressions of self.
DELIVERY AND POSTAGE
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FRAMING
Artwork comes framed.
ADDTIONAL INFO
Photographic Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (Matt Fine Art Paper)
Archivally mounted, framed, glazed and ready to hang. Custom framing: Bleached Walnut, Birch Ply Butterfly Splines with Anti-Reflective 70% UV Glass.
Made to order - production time 4 weeks.