About Jacki Clark Arts
I am driven by the capacity of art to communicate beyond words — to act directly on the body, the brain, and the nervous system. My practice explores art as a preverbal language: a way of sensing, orienting, and making meaning before language is formed. I am particularly interested in how visual and immersive experiences shape health, well-being, and our ability to navigate the world.
Trained in fine art, my work has increasingly moved into immersive media, including virtual and augmented reality. These environments invite the viewer to enter rather than observe — to move through space, memory, and sensation, and to experience meaning as something embodied rather than explained. Immersion allows stories to be lived, felt not told.
Over the past years, I've been supported through Immersive Arts UK; my research and collaboration has shifted toward identifying how external environments and systems act upon us — socially, spatially, emotionally, and neurologically. I am interested in how individuals respond to pressure, imbalance, and flow within these systems, and how we intuitively seek levelling, orientation, and safety.
Increasingly this has led me to question the boundaries between ourselves and the world around us. Are there boundaries? If so where do they begin and end?
We tend to experience reality as a collection of separate things; a person, a place, a tree, a moment. We name and measure them in order to understand them, but beneath these distinctions everything is in constantly interacting and changing.
Ideas from philosophy and quantum physics opened up new ways of thinking for me. From Heidigger's theory of Being and the behaviour of particles and fields; I am drawn to the possibility that what something is cannot be entirely separated from its relationships and interactions. This has also shaped the way I think about time. We divide continuous cycles into years, months and days creating fixed standardised measures on processes that are fluid.
My work increasingly is focussed on these spaces of transition, of interaction between self and environment, observer and observed, stability and change.
I am interested in what happens between 'things' and whether those 'things' are truly separate.
Perhaps Being is not something fixed that we all possess; but something that continually happens through interaction.
Intrascapes explores the shifting relationships through which we experience, shape and are shaped by the world of which we are already a part.
Qualifications
Fine Art degree- Newcastle Upon Tyne 2:1
Postgraduate Art and IT MMU.
NLP Practitioner
CBT Practitioner
Art therapy
Autism Awareness level 2
Counselling Skills level 2
Recent Awards
Immersive Art UK Award April 2025 (Explore strand)
Recent commissions (AR/VR trails)
CNY Art trail- 2020/21/22/23 MTC
Art trail 2022 S4A
Tunnicliffe Art trail 2021
Artwork -Prof Jacki Morie 2020/21
LiT 2019
Recent curated exhibitions/work selected./talks
Beneath The Surface - curated group exhibition October 25
Invited to speak at the ImmersiveX conference November 24
One VR still selected for exhibition at Thompson Gallery, Zug, Switzerland. November 24
ArtBasel Paris 24 Galerie Agnes Nord October -3 Digital VR stills selected
Halloween-October/November 2023 San Diego
Relics- 2023
LumenArt 2023
XR show- Atlanta , Georgia 2021
VArt, Moscow 2021
When The World Takes A Breath 2020
XR show, San Diego 2020