Bio

Jacqui Barrowcliffe is a London born multidisciplinary artist currently based in Scarborough, UK. Her practice embraces slowness, offering moments of quiet calm in a rushed and noisy world. She works in a variety of media, often combining digital and alternative photographic practices, video, text, performance and found objects. Her work explores time and processes of change, most recently focusing on human connection/disconnection to nature. She trained in Fine Art, Art Therapy and Therapeutic Photography and has exhibited nationally and in Barcelona, where she was previously based. 

A key part of her practice is facilitating creative space for others, through community engagement, collaborative artworks and curatorial projects. Her community engagement work includes working with schools, disability and SEND groups and community centres to design and deliver projects for organisations including Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Invisible Dust, Forestry England, Carers Plus Yorkshire and Scarborough Gallery & Museums Trust. Projects are inspired by the themes in her own work with a view to generating discussion around environmental concerns and nature connection. Workshops focus on process as a key to creative expression, based on her art therapy training, and include cyanotype and mindful photography.

Over the last 4 years she has collaborated with arts and science organisation Invisible Dust on their art and nature project Wild Eye as both community artist and assistant curator.

She is also Trustee at the Old Parcels Office Artspace in Scarborough, where she has her studio, and assists with exhibition programming, curation and the development of empty high street shops into meanwhile art spaces for grassroots artists.


Awards

Exhibitions 

  • “Who wants flowers when they are dead?”, curated by Broken Grey Wires, part of Liverpool Independents Biennial, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, UK, 2025 (group show)
  • “About time”, curated by Prof. Susan Collins, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar, UK, 2025 (group show)
  • “Here we are”, Scarborough Art, Scarborough Fair, UK, 2025 (group show)
  • “Nurture”, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, UK, 2025 (group show)
  • “Fruiting Bodies”, Changeable Beast collective, Old Parcels Office, Scarborough, UK, 2025 (group show)
  • ”Emerging Journeys”, Scott Creative Art Foundation, Northallerton, UK, 2024 (group show)
  • “Environment”, curated by Prof. Michael Archer, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar, UK, 2024 (group show)
  • “The Sun (and other stories)”, Scarborough Art pop up solo show, Scarborough Fair, UK, 2024
  • “Who Cares?”, curated by Hannah Bowles, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK, 2024 (group show)
  • “Symbiosis II”, curated by London Alternative Photography Collective, Four Corners Gallery, London, 2024 (group show)
  • “Mother, Nature, Balance”, RuptureXIBIT, London, 2024 (solo show)
  • Wintertide Festival, Scarborough, UK, 2023 – 2024 (group show)
  • Old Parcels Office studio show, Scarborough, UK, 2023 (group show)
  • “Light”, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, UK, 2023 – 2024 (group show)
  • “Light”, Scott Creative Arts Foundation, Thirsk, UK, 2023 (Emerging Artist Award show)
  • North Yorkshire Open Studios, UK, 2023 (open studios)
  • Saltaire Arts Trail, Saltaire, Bradford, UK, 2023 (art festival)
  • Malton Sculpture Trail, Malton and Dalby Forest, UK, 2023 (public art festival)
  • “Fibre”, Air Gallery, Altrincham, UK, 2023 (group show)
  • “All the small things”, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2023 (group show)
  • “Women in Photography”, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK, 2023 (group show)
  • Inspired by….Gallery, Danby, UK, 2023 (group show)
  • Old Parcels Office studio show, Scarborough, UK, 2022 (group show)
  • The House of Smalls at Fronteer Independent Art Fair, Chester, UK, 2022 (group show)
  • North Yorkshire Open Studios, UK, 2022 (open studios)
  • Malton Sculpture Trail, Malton, UK, 2022 (public art festival)
  • “Transitional”, Aurores, Barcelona, 2021 (solo show)
  • Beach Hut Sundays pop up exhibition, Whitby, UK, 2021 (intervention in public space)
  • “Extimitat”, Panoramic Festival, curated by Joan Fontcuberta, Andres Hispano, Mercé Alsina, Félix Pérez-Hita, Granollers (Barcelona), 2020 (photography festival)
  • Photogenic Festival, Barcelona,2020 (photography festival)
  • Foto Colectania Foundation “The Projector”, Barcelona, 2019 (photography festival)
  • “Blindspot”, Cubitt Gallery, London, 1998 (group show)
  • “Circuit Ouvert”, Huy Art Festival, Belgium, 1996 (public art festival)

Residencies 

  • RuptureXIBIT (London), February 2024
  • AHH Collective Studios (Malton, UK), March 2023
  • Roca Umbert, Granollers (Barcelona), October 2020 to December 2022

Community Art Projects

Collaborations/Appointments

  • Assistant Curator, Wild Eye project, Invisible Dust, 2024/2025
  • Support Artist for Northern Expressions creative arts programme, Scarborough Gallery & Museums Trust, 2024
  • Trustee for Old Parcels Office Artspace (Scarborough Studios CIO), appointed August 2023
  • Selection panel for Malton Sculpture Trail 2023, 2024
  • Contribution to Kua Crossing Beyond publication “Re-integration” by artist curator Yu’an Huang produced by Chisenhale Gallery and Delfina Foundation, launched in May 2022

Media