Jackie Langfeld
Winchester, Hampshire, UK
Jackie’s intentions are to provide stimulating and sometimes challenging visual pieces that perhaps change perception and provoke discussion.
The pleasure of ‘doing’ and ‘making’ is always supported by serious thought, often tempered with a sense of humour and a genuine enthusiasm for creative practice.
Enjoying the investigation of the unusual or unconventional, and hoping to demonstrate the idea that objects and materials are laden and often the teller of tales, her history of making has included, among others, the humble tea towel, recycled cardboard, discarded spoons, rusty nails and the found object.
There are layers of meaning in her work; some obvious, some hidden and some for the viewer themselves to discover and hopefully continue the conversation.
Her current work uses the technique of an independent metal ‘thread’. Surrounding the notion of shelter and refuge and seeming to refer to nests and the organic, her pieces can be read in different ways, asking questions about whether shelter is just for the physicality of something or can it also be for the more abstract and less definable concept of ideas, thoughts and even story telling captured inside the tangle of threads?
Narratives are built and messages conveyed just by making.
Photographs: by the artist