Jackie Chettur CV
I moved to Penzance in 2022, I have a studio at Krowji in Redruth. Often inspired by popular culture. I use diverse media, research, acts of appropriation and the elaborate remaking of recognisable cultural forms, to create works that are familiar, accessible yet off kilter somehow. I’m exploring new landscapes in the far west of the country as I continue my search for the terrain in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. This is coupled with for-rays into more colourful worlds where props are intricately crafted to create illusory lens based work which is sometimes installed out of doors. In 2023 after a two year writing collaboration with artist Chloe Cooper we designed and published our collection of pandemic writings.
PAST ACTIVITY
Published Geranium collected writings by Chloe Cooper and Jackie Chettur - Launched Jupiter Gallery Newlyn [2023]
London Creative Network took part in this development programme for London-based visual artists, hosted by SPACE, London. [2018]
Published All rooms are the same - a reworking of Jean Rhys's 1930's novel Good Morning Midnight [2018]
Curated Adaptation where three artists explored the possibilities of adapting literary fiction, Transition Gallery London [2016]
Residency At Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium. I experimented with photographic images and photogravure etching techniques [2016]
Artist Producer: A fall into Grace part 2 I devised and produced this year long project which took place in Aberdare and other towns in the South Wales Valley’s. Working with Addo and funded through Arts Council Wales and the Ashley Family foundation. Essentially a book project, where both novice and experienced writers were supported to produce love stories through writing workshops with well known published authors. Themes were further explored through printmaking and performance, a small print studio was set up for the project. An anthology of 33 love stories was published [2014 - 2015]
Published Can’t Eat for That’, You Can’t Eat for That, re-working of John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath. [2014]
Published The Un-creation of Ethan Frome, funded through Arts Council England my adaptation of the novel had multiple iterations, including: performance, a book (handprinted at the Museum of Technology, Cambridge), adapting collectable editions and printing my first Print on Demand publication. Exhibited across a number of venues. [2013]
Wysing Arts Centre: studio artist. [2011 - 2015]
Escalator Retreat: Wysing Arts Centre on the theme of print and production, culminated in A Mock Up, ways of working, launched ICA, London. [2012]
Experimental Art Writing Summer school with Information as Material, Whitechapel London [2011]
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Published re-workings of classic novels have featured at many international book fairs and are collected by numerous institutions including: The Chelsea Art Library, The Saison Poetry Library at South Bank Centre and in the US, the Clark Institute; Joan Flasch Collection (SAIC); Yale; Lafayette; Swarthmore; MoMA.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Second Nature, What is 'nature' anyway? Exhibition and Symposium The Portico Library, Manchester [2020]
Picture Palace, Over 100 artists make work inspired by film, Transition Gallery London [2020]
A Novel in Six Parts, Parse 1, collaboration with Benjamin Miller, SPACE, Hackney, London [2018]
I'r Môr/ To The Sea, Two Schooners and a Barque, Festival of the Sea, Caernarfon Castle [2018]
Adaptation, Transition Gallery [2016]
The Expanded studio project, Aid and Abet Cambridge [2015]
The Expanded studio project, Nottingham Primary Studios [2015]
KALEID, curated book exhibition, London [2014]
Winter-garden, Transition Gallery offsite at Sutton House, Hackney [2013]
Pilot Festival, Brightlingsea [2013]
There Will be Words, G39 Gallery Cardiff [2013]
Art Language Location, Cambridge [2013]
Still, Transition Gallery, Hackney [2012]
Recollect, exploring architecture, memory and experience, Wysing Arts Contemporary, [2012]
Performance, Pleasure, Photography exhibition and symposium, University of Newport [2012]
An Evening in Process, XMarx the Bökship, London [2012]
The National Eisteddfod of Wales [2010]
Purchase Prize, Millennium Centre Cardiff (highly commended) [2009]
310, g39 Gallery, Cardiff (solo show) [2009]
Undercover ‘Oriel Davies Open 2006’ [2006]
Perfectly Normal, tactile BOCSH, Cardiff [2004]
MART, From A Distance It Seems All Quite Nice, Manchester [1999]
Traffic, Silver Dream Machine, Site Gallery Sheffield [1999]
SELECTED PUBLIC REALM PROJECTS
...it is 89 days this morning since we left the mumbles head... Commissioned by Locws International, and originally exhibited on the Swansea bay foreshore, this series of stereoscopic tableaux, explored the 19 century copper trade between Swansea and Chile. Subsequently exhibited at Swansea’s Waterfront Museum, Swansea Museum and the Pilot Festival in Brightlingsea, Essex [2010-2013]
A Fall into Grace Part 1 the Coliseum Theatre Aberdare: included a series of love stories collected from members of the public, together with a tableaux of stereoscopic theatrical images depicting an imagined love story. [2011]
Platform 1 Six month funded residency on Pontypridd railway station, once the longest platform in the world. I reactivated the old disused buffet by casting a new set of cups, on site and using ideas and ephemera from the film Brief Encounter, the buffet exhibition was opened to commuters at 6am on some morning. I also collaborated with artist Alison Harris to create Art Railway Fete Day, with a day long screening of BFI transport films, cups of tea for 10p, demonstrations from the model railway group and new posters made by young people.
The Winter Garden Was an illuminated greenhouse, using multiple back projections, audio and outdoor lighting. The Winter Garden was exhibited in winter on the bandstand of a park, using documentary footage and still images illustrating the growing season of the previous summer. Funded through Arts Council Wales. [2006]
Silver Dream Machine A Citroen CX converted into a space-age silver three seat cinema showing artist film and video, toured to Rootless 97 Hull Time Based Arts, Exeter and Devon arts centre, the Old Leadworks Bristol and other locations around the UK. [1997-2000]
EDUCATION
MA. Fine Art. University College Institute Cardiff. [2003 -2004:]
B.A. Hon’s Ceramics. Camberwell College of Art & Design. [1991 -1994:]
Exchange programme to Alfred University, New York State, USA [1993:]
Foundation course Art & Design, Hounslow Borough College [1990 - 1991:]