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jess bugler

hereford
I use the concepts and language of printmaking to conjure worlds and interrogate predicaments, with outcomes often in the form of sculptures and installations.
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I use the concepts and language of printmaking to conjure worlds and interrogate predicaments, with outcomes often in the form of sculptures and installations.  My embodied practice is an act of exposure, an attempt to capture something elusive, to do as Louise Bourgeois suggests and “physicalize the problem.”   


I created two installations Forest Ghosts and Forest Books for an Arts Council England project about the nature of aloneness. The pieces stood in contrast to each other, one dark with chaotic disquiet, the other fragile with airy impermanence. Writer, Rachel Cusk, talks about the ‘gift and burden’ of being alone. This dichotomy is mirrored in these pieces.
 

More recently, my work has been about Ymyl Y Tir / Edge of Land.  Here, I observe both sea and rock fold, which contributes to the “stuff” of their trysting and its peculiar vitality and affect. Thus, I embrace the language of folding, the texture of carborundum grit and the resistance of wax to speak to this essential meeting of differences.  This exploration of the forces of the non human world offering a chance to step outside ourselves, see beyond ourselves.   
 

I was awarded The Hawthorn Prize in the Flourish Awards for Excellence in Printmaking in 2024. I have exhibited across the UK with grants from Arts Council England and Wales.    
 

 

http://www.jessbugler.co.uk 

 

Blue Rock

Collide

Verticality

Disturb

Forest Ghosts 2023

Forest Books 2023

Alone Together installation 2022

Enclosure III

Blue Glimpse

Black Glimpse

Retablos

Erasure

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