Max Jacquard

ARTIST'S PROFILE

Born in London in 1964 Jacquard trained briefly as a furniture designer before switching to ceramics and glass under Sam Herman at High Wycombe.

The exhibition ‘Solid Air’ at the Crafts Council in 2002 marked a turning point where Jacquard worked with sound and light along with 3 life-size hanging glass figures to create a challenging and moving sensory experience. Subsequently, the V&A, Broadfield House Glass Museum and The Shipley Museum of Applied Arts in the UK and the MAVA Museum, Alcorcon, Madrid, acquired his work.

Jacquard has established a reputation for innovation, both in technique and conception, that makes his work distinctive and unique. Narratives are woven in and around objects often transforming the familiar or ‘found’ into strange and unsettling realities using the glassy state as both aesthetic and metaphor. His style combines personal stories with diverse cultural references including archaeology, nature, landscape and craft traditions. Kiln-forming is his central technique but the results are extensively cold worked and combined with other media in a rich sculptural language. The scale varies from body sized to hand held but even the smallest items retain the distinctive ghostly beauty to be found in the larger pieces.

In 2006 Jacquard was awarded first prize in the UK Glass Biennale for his work 'For My Lost Loves' featuring a series of crumpled tissues captured with extraordinary delicacy in clear crystal. The piece was described by the judges as 'A Lyrical Masterpiece- a deft blend of visual poetry and virtuoso technique'.

In 1998 Max Jacquard co-founded, New London Glass and has been pivotal in organising site specific exhibitions in London such as ‘Sub Urban Glass’ at Gloucester Road Underground Station and ‘Transfuse’ at The Great Eastern Hotel. In Liverpool Street Max also lectures regularly in kiln-formed glass at The University College For the Creative Arts (Farnham) and at Richmond College, London.

In Spring/Summer 2008 Jacquard exhibited at Zest, London, SOFA New York and group shows The Art of Glass in St Ives and Glass Light and Space in London He will also exhibit at the UK Glass Biennale and In And Out at Quennington Old Priory,Gloucestershire in the Autumn.

CONTACT

www.maxjacquard.com

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