Jack Woolley
Jack is a visual artist based in London and Edinburgh. Coming to art after a career first as an inventor, then as a chartered architect, Jack uses the medium of expanded painting to address the unravelling of apparent certainties he is experiencing in relation to the nature of materiality, architecture as a societal panacea and Britain’s imperial history. He expresses the results of his research through the medium of expanded painting, drawing on sailmaking and hydrographic skills learnt from his parents and embracing unexpected possibilities revealed through making.
Examples of Jack's architectural work:
Awards
2024
Freelands Painting Prize
Liberty Art Award
Pure Arts Studio Award
2015
RIBA Viewpoint
2012
Architects' Journal Small Projects Award
Exhibitions
2026
The First Round Proper; Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2025
Hypernormal, Uncovered Collective, London
A Bell is a Cup, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2024
Tribute; Uncovered Collective, London
Freelands Painting Prize winners exhibition, Freelands Foundation, London
Past, Present, Future, Art Academy, London
2023
Derelict; Uncovered Collective, London
2022
I’m So Sickle Of It; Uncovered Collective, London
2012
Brit Arch: The Changing Face of British Architecture; The Architecture Centre, Bristol
1993
In The Swim; BEDG/Blueprint, Bremerhaven
1993
The Best of British Design; DTI/British Trade Commission, Hong Kong
1992
Britain Salutes Seoul: Future Visions; DTI/Design Museum, Seoul
1989
Leading Edge; Axis Gallery, Tokyo