About
Jacqueline Rana is an expanded painter, mixed media artist and curator who lives and works in Brighton and London. Her practice is concerned with social relations, representation and belonging, the sensation and experience of social bonds and relatedness to consider themes of absence and displacement through history, memory and place. Drawing on a counter archive of found photos, she uses the child-adult figure and playing, as a complex relational dynamic to trace how shifting social bonds inform our experience of connection and belonging. Through pour, layer, distortion, repetition and mis-registration .her work considers templates of legibility, what is made familiar and what falls outside. The adjustments, adaptations and contortions required to relate to each other
Jacqueline holds a BA Fine Art (painting) from Leeds Met, an MA Sustainable Design (distinction) University of Brighton and studied Painting Year II at The Essential School of Painting (ESOP), London. She is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate Fine Art at UEL. Recent shows include Interfacing, Between People Gallery. London Dissimilate, Nova S.Korea | Sorry About the Mess, Shaftesbury Ave, London | Mother of All. BOTH Gallery | In Out. Hive Curates, Gerry Raffles Sq, London | States of Exchange , Hypha Studios Stratford, London | Art Matters, Art Pavilion, Mile End | She is a member of Centre for Creative & Cultural Practice (UEL CCP) a co-founder at BOTH Gallery and DFA Arts Exchange and works with Metagraph, an Arts Collective located on the Bristol Estate, Brighton.
