Jack Halford, (B. 1995, Leicester) is an artist exploring perception enhancement. Absurdly process led, he wrote the Methodicalist manifesto in 2020, a call to failure over inaction, DIY attitude combined with stoic virtues and consistency. Using painting, alternative photographic processes, print, drawing, video, sound and broadcast as a means to express ideas linked to perception, from visable wavelengths to the photoreceptors found in our retinas, he draws from science, philosophy, psychology, music and his lived experience. Creating saturated paintings using traditional materials and co-oping photographic techniques from antiquity merged with modern digital tools, creating surreal worlds.
Jack wants more people to just do, doing is what he helps people to do and is what he does through his youth work and further community work teaching artistic process in an easy to understand manner. Against elitism, confusing (in the wrong way) art writing, he advocates for accessible art criticism, theory and teaching by doing it himself. In fact he wrote, yes I wrote this, what’s all this third person nonsense about anyway, maybe I’ll write my obituary next. Identity is everything after all. I’m sure Buddha said that.
Enquiries about exhibition opportunities or available works please E-mail: info@jackhalford.com
Jack leads art workshops for multiple arts organisations across the midlands, engaging people of all age groups and abilities with contemporary art, if you’d be interested in attending one of his workshops please goto the Events page. For availability to facilitate workshops with your organisation please use the Contact Form.
2016 - Present:
Studio Holder at Two Queens Gallery/Studios, 2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QW
2020-Present:
Director of Painting Ground a Nomadic Curatorial Research Project.
2020-2023:
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts - BA Fine Art: Painting
2023 - Present:
Contributor to RAN (Running Artfully Network)
2023 - Present:
Selected Exhibitions:
Two Queens Members show, Leicester, 29th August - 14th September 2025
D.I.Y., Ilkon Contemporary Arts, Ilkeston, June 8th - 30th 2024
Mix the colours, Two Queens Gallery, Leicester, 23 February 2024
All this wrath, Blue Shop Gallery, London, 15 February 2024 - 3 March 2024
Smock-Ravelled, Two Queens Gallery, 26 august - 9 September 2023
Just the powder of the flute, Safehouse 2, 137 Copeland Road London, SE15 3SN 3-6 March 2023
Southwark Park Galleries, London, 4-5 February 2023
Alchemical Vessels, 126 Gallery & Studios, Galway, Ireland. 13 - 29 January 2023
Blunderbuss, Two Queens, Leicester, 12 November - 19 November 2022
DRIP (I curated this, part of my curatorial project ‘painting ground’), Two Queens, Leicester, 22 September - 1October 2022
Gloam Gallery, Sheffield, 29 April - 8 May 2022
Half Way - A.P.T Gallery, London, 17 - 20 February 2022
Members Show - Two Queens, Leicester, 12 - 27 November 2021
Creative Lockdown - Art @ The Chapel, Leicester, 9 - 22 November 2021
Members show - Two Queens, Leicester, UK. 22 October - 31 October 2020
Socially Distanced - StudionAme, Leicester, 11 September 2020 -13 September 2020
Two Queens at We Are, Leicester, UK, 6 September – 5 October 2019
Members show - Two Queens, Leicester, UK, 31 May – 1 June 2019
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK 15 December 2018 - 2 February 2019
Members show - Two Queens, Leicester, UK, 26 May 2018
Happy To Be Here - Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK, 7 January – 12 January 2017
Don’t Mind – Two Queens, Leicester, UK, 20 August – 28 August 2016
Galerie 691, London, UK, May - July 2015
Etienne Gallery, Derbyshire, UK, March 2015