Coral Shaw Jackson

Coral Shaw Jackson has been chosen for Leicester Print Workshop's Graduate Award. Each year we visit the degree show and award a printmaker with a solo exhibition in our gallery.

Between the Stones examines landscape as an extension of the body. Taking the ancient monuments of Britain as subject, the artworks included in this exhibition seek to renew our enchantment with the landscape through performative interactions.

Coral Shaw Jackson’s approach has been informed by W. J. T. Mitchell’s proposal that landscape is better understood as a verb: ‘to landscape’. Seeking bodily activities through which a rich connection with landscape could be made, she came across the waning folkloric tradition of Morris dancing. The artist performed a solitary Morris dance amid the stones at Arbor Low Stone Circle. This action takes and employs landscape as the ground to which her artistic analysis of historical objects and landmarks is applied.

Between the Stones presents again this performance in conversation with an archive of related happenings through solar-plate intaglio, cyanotype, and other printmaking techniques. These documents of anterior landscape interactions aspire to encourage viewers to pursue future landscape encounters of their own.

Coral Shaw Jackson studied Fine Art at Loughborough University, recently graduating with first class honours. She is staying on at Loughborough University as one of two Graduate Artist Scheme fellows, allowing her access to cutting-edge facilities, workshops, equipment, and specialist knowledge. Her writing, photography, and printmaking practices take bodily engagement and interaction with landscape as the point of departure for an artistic analysis of our understanding and experience of objects and the world.