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.
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​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, not told.​​
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Over the past year, 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.
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Drawing on neuroaesthetics, alongside principles from neuroscience, CBT, and NLP, I approach art as both inquiry and tool: a means of understanding how we adapt to external forces, and how creative experiences can support regulation, connection, and resilience. Neuroaesthetics offers a contemporary framework for what cultures have long known — that art is not decorative, but essential, shaping how we feel, relate, and survive.
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My work creates spaces where meaning is felt rather than decoded — where navigation, presence, and perception become the artwork itself.
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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
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Recent Awards
Immersive Art UK Award April 2025 (Explore strand)
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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
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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