Installation Artist
Sculpture & Environments
STUDIO & RESEARCH
Jack is an installation artist and spatial practitioner working at the intersection of experimental sculpture and ‘performative’ environments. With a background in architecture and a specialism in working with light, he creates experiential art projects that thoughtfully combine physical and immaterial qualities. His work is often site-specific and immersive, inviting interaction and encouraging participation and play to create unique and memorable public experiences. Jack is particularly interested in the performative potential of objects and spaces; how they can evolve, transform, or provoke playful engagement to generate rich and varied encounters.
Jack is an installation artist and spatial practitioner working at the intersection of experimental sculpture and ‘performative’ environments. With a background in architecture and a specialism in working with light, he creates experiential art projects that thoughtfully combine physical and immaterial qualities. His work is often site-specific and immersive, inviting interaction and encouraging participation and play to create unique and memorable public experiences. Jack is particularly interested in the performative potential of objects and spaces; how they can evolve, transform, or provoke playful engagement to generate rich and varied encounters.
Jack has over a decade of teaching experience across architecture and interior design, and is passionate about education, participatory practice, and co-creation. He welcomes new collaborations and design consultancy opportunities, drawing on a broad base of knowledge spanning architecture, interiors, exhibition design, lighting and technology. If you’re interested in discussing a project or potential collaboration, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
PROJECTS
Studio & Practice
In The Shade of Streetlight (2025), a permanent light art installation developed for the Regent's Park Estate through a series of participatory workshops.
Changing Room (2024), an experimental performative installation that featured as part of the inaugural exhibition at the Purist Gallery.
Sawhorse (2024), an experimental performative sculpture project developed for the ‘Game = Role-playing = Rule-setting’ exhibition at the Small Time Project space.
Thames Barrier Park Maze (2023), a Royal Docks Summer Programme commission for a large-scale, playable landscape installation in Thames Barrier Park. Collaboration with Colin Priest.
Zoomscape (2023), a Playable City commission to develop a large-scale, playable installation prototype in Queen Square, Bristol. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn.
Peep Show (2023), a large-scale, performative installation that featured as part of Persona Collective’s The Village project at Koppel X.
Storm Room (2020), a site-specific installation that featured as part of Persona Collective’s The Halfway House project in the Lethaby Building. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn. Project featured in Arc magazine. Video
A Polyphonic Playground (2020), an interactive, multi-sensory installation produced for Maps Festival at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Sami Sabik.
The Tottenham Sculpture Pavilion (2020). Shortlisted for the Tottenham Pavilion architecture competition and awarded the ‘Community Vote’. Featured in Architect’s Journal, UK Innovation Corridor. Collaboration with Merrett Houmoller Architects.
Colour Curve (2019), a large-scale landscape installation produced for the Arts by the Sea Festival in Bournemouth. Collaboration with Alex Mead. Featured in Arc Magazine, Bournemouth Echo.
Wellington Street Weave (2019), a permanent public realm art project, developed through participatory workshops for the Wellington Street underpass in Luton. Project featured in LuxReview, Lighting Insight, Lightecture, Iluminet, Illumni, Arc magazine. Video 1 Video 2
Singing Mirror (2018), an interactive, multi-sensory installation developed for Light Night Liverpool at the British Music Experience. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Thomas Blackburn. Video
A Measure of Disruption (2018), a playable, interactive installation installed at The Factory in London. Collaboration with Alex Mead. Video
A Matter of Exchange (2017), a light installation developed for Lewes Light Festival at the Market Tower in Lewes. Project featured in Arc magazine.
CRTV (2017), a permanent video wall installation at New River Studios. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Edmund Fraser. Video
Find Yourself (2017), a large-scale, site-specific, live-video Installation developed for the Barbican’s concert hall foyer space. Collaboration with Alex Mead Video
Extended Window (2017), a light art sculpture developed for the Perspectives 2012-2017 exhibition at The Onca Gallery in Brighton.
Into The Trap Scenography (2016), an immersive light art installation that featured as part of the Into The Trap event at New River Studios Video
Concertina Moves (2016) an experimental installation developed for the Market Stall Theatre event at Ex-Fed Theatre, London.
Watch Sound Hear Light Play (2016), an interactive, multi-sensory installation that featured as part of the Brighton Digital Festival, at the Onca Gallery, in Brighton. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn. Project featured in Illumni and CODAworx Magazine Video
Enter Void (2015), an experimental installation featuring dancers Eve Stainton and Michael Kitchin. Project presented at The Book Club in London and at the InHouse Festival in Manor House Video
Lighthouse (2014), a participatory installation developed with residents of Anchor House in Canning Town and presented at Canning Town Light Night. Collaboration with Rocio Ayllon. Video
Falling House (2014), an experimental film installation, produced for the exhibition ‘Cities Methodologies: Buildings on Fire: Towards a New Approach to Urban Memory’ at the Slade Research Centre. Collaboration with Rocio Ayllon and Riccardo Vincentini. Published in Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies, I.B.Tauris, December 2016. Video
Light Echoes (2013), a live-performance installation developed with Satu Streatfield, Kerem Asfuroglu and Benz Roos, for Canning Town Light Night Video
The Hackney Bathhouse (2012), an architecture paper project, published in Blueprint Magazine, bdonline, and coolhunting. Shortlisted for RCA Sustain Award – exhibited in Sustain Show, Royal College of Art and featured in the London Festival of Architecture.
La Traviata (2011), an outdoor scenographic installation that featured as part of Une Nuit Sans Opera’s ‘La Traviata de Verdi’ in Aix-en-Provence. Collaboration with Marcel Croxson.
Changing Room (2024), an experimental performative installation that featured as part of the inaugural exhibition at the Purist Gallery.
Sawhorse (2024), an experimental performative sculpture project developed for the ‘Game = Role-playing = Rule-setting’ exhibition at the Small Time Project space.
Thames Barrier Park Maze (2023), a Royal Docks Summer Programme commission for a large-scale, playable landscape installation in Thames Barrier Park. Collaboration with Colin Priest.
Zoomscape (2023), a Playable City commission to develop a large-scale, playable installation prototype in Queen Square, Bristol. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn.
Peep Show (2023), a large-scale, performative installation that featured as part of Persona Collective’s The Village project at Koppel X.
Storm Room (2020), a site-specific installation that featured as part of Persona Collective’s The Halfway House project in the Lethaby Building. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn. Project featured in Arc magazine. Video
A Polyphonic Playground (2020), an interactive, multi-sensory installation produced for Maps Festival at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Sami Sabik.
The Tottenham Sculpture Pavilion (2020). Shortlisted for the Tottenham Pavilion architecture competition and awarded the ‘Community Vote’. Featured in Architect’s Journal, UK Innovation Corridor. Collaboration with Merrett Houmoller Architects.
Colour Curve (2019), a large-scale landscape installation produced for the Arts by the Sea Festival in Bournemouth. Collaboration with Alex Mead. Featured in Arc Magazine, Bournemouth Echo.
Wellington Street Weave (2019), a permanent public realm art project, developed through participatory workshops for the Wellington Street underpass in Luton. Project featured in LuxReview, Lighting Insight, Lightecture, Iluminet, Illumni, Arc magazine. Video 1 Video 2
Singing Mirror (2018), an interactive, multi-sensory installation developed for Light Night Liverpool at the British Music Experience. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Thomas Blackburn. Video
A Measure of Disruption (2018), a playable, interactive installation installed at The Factory in London. Collaboration with Alex Mead. Video
A Matter of Exchange (2017), a light installation developed for Lewes Light Festival at the Market Tower in Lewes. Project featured in Arc magazine.
CRTV (2017), a permanent video wall installation at New River Studios. Collaboration with Alex Mead and Edmund Fraser. Video
Find Yourself (2017), a large-scale, site-specific, live-video Installation developed for the Barbican’s concert hall foyer space. Collaboration with Alex Mead Video
Extended Window (2017), a light art sculpture developed for the Perspectives 2012-2017 exhibition at The Onca Gallery in Brighton.
Into The Trap Scenography (2016), an immersive light art installation that featured as part of the Into The Trap event at New River Studios Video
Concertina Moves (2016) an experimental installation developed for the Market Stall Theatre event at Ex-Fed Theatre, London.
Watch Sound Hear Light Play (2016), an interactive, multi-sensory installation that featured as part of the Brighton Digital Festival, at the Onca Gallery, in Brighton. Collaboration with Thomas Blackburn. Project featured in Illumni and CODAworx Magazine Video
Enter Void (2015), an experimental installation featuring dancers Eve Stainton and Michael Kitchin. Project presented at The Book Club in London and at the InHouse Festival in Manor House Video
Lighthouse (2014), a participatory installation developed with residents of Anchor House in Canning Town and presented at Canning Town Light Night. Collaboration with Rocio Ayllon. Video
Falling House (2014), an experimental film installation, produced for the exhibition ‘Cities Methodologies: Buildings on Fire: Towards a New Approach to Urban Memory’ at the Slade Research Centre. Collaboration with Rocio Ayllon and Riccardo Vincentini. Published in Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies, I.B.Tauris, December 2016. Video
Light Echoes (2013), a live-performance installation developed with Satu Streatfield, Kerem Asfuroglu and Benz Roos, for Canning Town Light Night Video
The Hackney Bathhouse (2012), an architecture paper project, published in Blueprint Magazine, bdonline, and coolhunting. Shortlisted for RCA Sustain Award – exhibited in Sustain Show, Royal College of Art and featured in the London Festival of Architecture.
La Traviata (2011), an outdoor scenographic installation that featured as part of Une Nuit Sans Opera’s ‘La Traviata de Verdi’ in Aix-en-Provence. Collaboration with Marcel Croxson.
Design & Consultancy
Exhibition Design Consultancy
Collaborations on:
⋅ Soil: The World at Our Feet, Somerset House, 2025 (lighting co-design & installation technician)
⋅ Making a Rukus!, Somerset House, 2024 (lighting co-design & installation technician)
⋅ Rory Pilgrim: Pink & Green, Chisenhale Gallery, 2024 (lighting design & installation technician)
⋅ Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical, The Garden Museum, 2023 (production technician)
⋅ In Plain Sight, Wellcome Collection, 2022 (lighting installation technician)
⋅ Rooted Beings, Wellcome Collection, 2021-22 (lighting co-design & installation technician)
⋅ AA Murakami, Superblue: Pace Gallery, 2021 (lighting technician)
⋅ Frieze Masters, Kallos Gallery, 2017 (lighting co-design & installation)
⋅ TEFAF, Maastricht, Kallos Gallery, March 2018, 2019, 2020 (lighting co-design & installation)
⋅ Masterpiece London, Kallos Gallery, 2018, 2019 (lighting co-design & installation)
Lighting, Interaction Technology & Prototyping Support at Publica (2021-22)
⋅ Oxford Street Showcase
⋅ Walthamstow Central Lighting Design Plan
⋅ Ecclestone Yards
Lighting Design for the RIBA Clore Learning Centre (2018) - co-design with Satu Streatfield
⋅ The RIBA, London, 2019 - Video 1, Video 2
⋅ Featured in Architect's Journal, Archdaily, Inhabitat, Onoffice Magazine
Lighting Designer at Speirs Major Light Architecture (2013-16)
⋅ Green Heart, University of Birmingham, Birmingham (Public Realm Lighting Design)
⋅ Elephant Park, London (Lighting Masterplan, Public Realm Lighting Design, Pocket Park Lighting)
⋅ Malaysia Square, London (Public Realm Lighting Design)
⋅ Battersea Power Station, London (Lighting Masterplan, Phase 2 & 3 Public Realm Lighting)
⋅ Manhattan West, New York (Public Realm Lighting Strategy)
⋅ Derby after Dark, Derby (Lighting Strategy, Masterplan, Consultation, Pilot Projects)
⋅ The West End Project, London (Public Realm Lighting Strategy)
⋅ Covent Garden Area Lighting Scheme, London (Public Realm Lighting Design)
⋅ Barangaroo, Sydney (Public Realm Lighting Strategy, Masterplan)
⋅ OLF Balham, London (Public Realm Lighting Design)
Architectural Assistant at Mediomundo Arquitectos (2013)
⋅A garden design for the Health Sciences Faculty, Granada
Assistant Designer for Bohn & Viljoen Architects on the Urban Agriculture Curtain (2009)
⋅ Installation: London Yields: Urban Agriculture, The Building Centre, London
⋅ Published in Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities
Architectural Assistant at Penoyre & Prasad Architects (2008-09)
⋅ Belfairs High School
⋅ Ruskin College
Teaching
2022 - 25: Senior Lecturer, MA Interior Design – Istituto Marangoni
2020 - 22: Associate Lecturer, MA Interior & Spatial Design – Camberwell College of Arts
2020 - 21: Visiting Design Tutor, BA Architecture – Year 1, University of Brighton
2019: Visiting Technical Tutor, BA Interior & Spatial Design – Year 3, Chelsea College of Arts
2018 - 20: Artist Workshop Facilitator – Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
2016 - 18: Associate Lecturer, BA Architecture – Year 2 & 3, Unit E, Oxford Brookes University
2015 - 18: Associate Lecturer, BA Architecture – Year 2 & 3, Unit 14, University of Brighton
2014: Tutor, BA Interior & Spatial Design – Year 1, Chelsea College of Arts
2008 - 13: Guest Critic: Royal College of Art, Oxford Brookes, University of Brighton
2020 - 22: Associate Lecturer, MA Interior & Spatial Design – Camberwell College of Arts
2020 - 21: Visiting Design Tutor, BA Architecture – Year 1, University of Brighton
2019: Visiting Technical Tutor, BA Interior & Spatial Design – Year 3, Chelsea College of Arts
2018 - 20: Artist Workshop Facilitator – Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
2016 - 18: Associate Lecturer, BA Architecture – Year 2 & 3, Unit E, Oxford Brookes University
2015 - 18: Associate Lecturer, BA Architecture – Year 2 & 3, Unit 14, University of Brighton
2014: Tutor, BA Interior & Spatial Design – Year 1, Chelsea College of Arts
2008 - 13: Guest Critic: Royal College of Art, Oxford Brookes, University of Brighton
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