Jax Hall

Studio 65

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I use various different media to explore existential concepts

Jax's current artistic practice has grown out of an interest in Jungian psychology and Irving Yalom’s existential concepts such as isolation and death, through her work as an art therapist. Working more recently with multi-layered monoprints, she has been exploring what it means to be human in a materialistic and potentially meaningless existence. Previous work involved covering fruit with different outer, protective coatings, cut away to reveal the slow but inevitable decay inside, watching how the inside and outside respond to each other. She has also experimented with then setting this decay and degeneration into resin, as a way of preserving the strange beauty and to stop time, and creating unstable and vulnerable moulds from latex and other materials, and seeing what happens when they are used to try and hold things together, stop things leaking out.

This work has led her to experiments with mono printing, a technique that has proved interesting in allowing her to take risks, and see what is visible and what is hidden inside. The last year she has been focusing on these prints, exploring what we show and what gets hidden. Themes that emerge are loss, ageing, the attempt to ‘look good’ and remain standing and moving, while inside there is fear and collapse. This has felt particularly resonant in relation to her father’s degeneration through dementia. 

The process of layering prints in a free associative way mirrors what it aims to explore – the chaotic, unknown nature of the search for meaning in a messy, unpredictable and, ultimately, transitory life.

It's Time to Go
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

Bone Caves
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

Ghost Bones
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

Angel Bones
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

Deep Sea Bones
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

A Way Through
Acrylic and collage on paper 42cm x 60cm

£450

What Lies Beyond 1
Acrylic and collage on paper

£550

What Lies Beyond 2
Acrylic and collage on paper

£550

Petrified Cracks Open
Acrylic and collage on stitched canvas 91cm x 120cm

£1,250

Left Right Hemisphere
multi-layered print 29.5cm x 42cm
Variable Edition of 20

£300

Exposed 5
Mono-print and mixed media 25cm x 35cm

£250

Tangled Mind 1
Multi-layered lino and drypoint print 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

Tangled Mind 2
Multi-layered lino and drypoint print 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

Spine:Struggle 2
Multi-layered lino and collagraph print 29.5cm x 42cm

£200

Dancing or Falling 6
Multi-layered lino monoprint 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

Spine: Struggle 6
Multi-layered lino and collagraph print 29.5cm x 42cm

£200

Dancing or Falling 4
Multi-layered lino monoprint 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

Dancing or Falling 1
Multi-layered lino monoprint 29.4cm x 42cm

£300

Gilded Alien 1
Mono-print and mixed media 25cm x 35cm

£250

Born in the Shadowlands 2
Mono-print and mixed media 29.5cm x 42cm

£250

Born alienated 3
Mono-print and mixed media 25cm x 35cm

£250

Inside Out 1
Mono-print and mixed media 25cm x 35cm

£250

Born Alienated 4
Mono-print and mixed media 25cm x 35cm

£250

Collapse 1
PVA, pastel, ink 29.7cm x 21cm

£75

The Hidden Tension of Remaining Upright 1
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

SOLD

The Hidden Tension of Remaining Upright 2
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

The Hidden Tension of Remaining Upright 3
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

The Hidden Tension of Remaining Upright 4
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£300

Fading Existence
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£250

Exposure 1
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

SOLD

I'm not Feeling Myself 1
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£250

Inner Collapse 4
Mono-print 29.5cm x 42cm

£200

Get up 4
Mono-print 29.5cm x 29.5cm

£150

Get up 6
Mono-print 29.5cm x 29.5cm

£150

Buried Self Emerging 5
Mono-print 29.5cm x 29.5cm

SOLD

Buried Self Emerging 7
Mono-print 29.5cm x 29.5cm

SOLD

Collapse 2
PVA, charcoal, collage 21cm x 29.7cm

£75

Leaking Tissue
Tissue, PVA, plaster 15cm x 4cm
Not for Sale

P.O.A.

Fading
PVA, pastel, collage 29.7cm x 21cm

£75

Memories of Past Glories
PVA, pastel, collage 29.7cm x 21cm

£75

Dementia
Photographic print of mould series 60cm x 15cm
(Limited edition of 10, 6 available)

£75

She was a Great Beauty
Photographic Print 60cm x 14cm
(Limited edition of 6, 5 available)

£75

Leaking Spine
Wire, Tissue, sellotape, plaster 15cm x 4cm
Not for Sale

P.O.A.

Deep Cave Bones 4
Lino monoprint 29.5cm x 42cm

£150

Deep Cave Bones 3
Lino monoprint 29.4cm x 42cm

£150

Deep Cave Bones 2
Lino monoprint 29.5cm x 42cm

£150

Deep Cave Bones 5
Lino mono print 29.5cm 42cm

£150

Deep Cave Bones
Lino monoprint 29.5cm x 42cm

£150

Shadow Dance 1
Mono-type print 50cm x 50cm

£150

Shadow Outside Myself
Mono-type print and collage 50cm x 50cm

£150

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