Jennifer Holly Huck- BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History
Jennifer Quinn Huck is a collage-based artist who investigates digital existence. She employs a rule-based methodology to interrogate how we relate to one another in an increasingly screen-mediated world. Working with physical collage, she uses archival materials to construct compositions that echo the visual language of digital interfaces while engaging with the tension between tactile experience and virtual life. These complex visual outcomes act as static experiences to unpick and understand each layer, challenging the image-saturated spaces we inhabit.
JQH’s work combines imagery from nature journals and vintage self-help manuals with stock and public domain images sourced online, collapsing distinctions between traditional archives and the endlessly circulating imagery of the digital sphere. Her cutting process is guided by patterns inspired by the illuminated pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels. This reference informs an ongoing investigation into the evolution of information-sharing and the role of beauty in shaping the dissemination of knowledge.
Sixteen of the Most Perfect Moments began as an exploration of how many screens could be focused on at once. It challenges the normalisation of an image-saturated world where it is expected to spend your life between screens, as well as the inescapable advertising that covers every surface of cities like Manchester. Sixteen reflects the binary nature of data and is too many images to comprehend simultaneously. The appropriated images are taken from a 1982 self-defence manual and a series of orchid specialist journals. This examines how beauty, fear, and the potential of information are utilised to keep the public attached to their screens and disconnected from the physical world.
Recent exhibitions:
Won’t Sit Still, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Liminoid: A Gossip With No Plot In Particular, PINK, Stockport
Mechanical Crossroads, Sink Gallery, Manchester
An Image Is An Act Not A Thing, Future Flares Festival, Manchester
Performance, Creative Factory, Middlesborough
