Peta Jacobs

The inspiration for my art practice arises from my fascination for quantum light. The abstract, often geometric mixed-media artworks illuminate the bizarre and paradoxical properties of the quantum world. This evolved from the art-based research of my art practice-based PhD, 'Making Quantum Questions Material'.

Along with the recurring motifs of entwined particle/wave dualities and enfolding and unfolding orders, I appropriate apparatus used in the two-slit experiments as art materials. Mirrors, prisms, dichroic materials and diffraction grating) offer experiences of quantum peculiarities in the playful and illusory artworks. These include, superposition, entanglements, interference patterns, indeterminate boundaries and the intrinsic interconnectedness of all things.

In some pieces, diffraction grating unravels the radiant colourful beauty hidden within white light—the colours are an illusion, the drawings within the works are made with black ink.

Lenticular and dichroic materials in other pieces articulate quantum physicist David Bohm's holomovement (the process where the undivided wholeness underlying reality is in a perpetual process of flux and becoming).

The works are kinetic and invite an active participation from v...

Art practice-based PhD. University of the Arts London. 2022

MA Textiles (Distinction),University for Creative Arts, UK. 2012.

First Class BA Textile Design, University for Creative Arts, UK. 2010.

• Beyond Duality and Other Quantum Questions: Artist in Focus. Newlands House Gallery. Petworth, West Sussex. 11 April - 22 June 2025. Current.
• AVA All Art Program. Nobu AVA Resort Cancun. Mexico. No 2024 - Nov 2026. Current.
• London Contemporary Art Fair. ELEMENTS Contemporary Art Space. 29 November - 10 December 2024
• The Other Art Fair. Truman Brewery. London. 1- 14 October 2024.
• Rome International Art Fair 2024, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy. August 30 - September 12, 2024
• Mixing Identities: Contemporary Venice. Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy. July 2024.
• Art Exhibition. Art Nou 277 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain. February - March 2024.
• Beyond the Rainbow. Installation. South Hill Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK. September - November 2023.
• Quantum Light: Beyond a Crisis of Perception. Solo show. James Hockey Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK. November - December 2022.
• Tansa 探査: Japanese threads of influence Process and Making. GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan. May - June 2022.
• Tansa—Large Works. South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK. March - April 2022.
• Tansa 探査: Japanese threads of influence Process and Making. Craft Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey, UK. January - March 2022.
• The Makers Ta...