Jan Mcneill

My practice has evolved through many materials and forms but continues to manifest itself as installation, photography or sculpture, sometimes a mixture of all three.

Currently, I have become intrigued by language and although language ideology is a relatively new dimension to the work, it is one I have investigated in this current work A Play On Words (2011).

This work is an interrogator of language, its power and authority and the impact it has on the individual to create barriers of class and gender.

A linguistic sparring between viewer and the work occurs causing questions to be asked but leaving the response to personal interpretation.

My intention is to bring a sense of lived experience of language within a quiet subtle space.

This echoes a desire to make work that creates an intimate, reflective space leaving a residue of lived experience within the viewer long after they have departed.

June 2011 - BA (Hons) Fine and Applied Art, University of Ulster, Belfast.
June 2008 - EDGE Business Course, Southern Regional College, Portadown.
June 2006 - BTEC Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Southern Regional College, Lurgan.
June 1997 - B.Sc. (Hons) Information Systems, University of Derby, England.