Lacking: Jamie George

Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Jamie George
Mulberry Tree Press, London, 2022
Design by the artist
Printed by Aldgate Press
112 pages
Edition of 500 copies
ISBN: 978-1-9160949-4-9

The publication Lacking accompanies the exhibition Lack by Jamie George. It is designed by the artist and features a number of his new and previously published writings, as well as an extended text by the curators, Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. His practice explores enactments of loss and breakage, be this in the making processes of the work or his personal and cultural narratives. The exhibition is the outcome of an extended residency and brings together a body of sculptures in the gallery and is further extended by the textual space of the publication, a space punctuated by conversation. Casting is a key process in his sculpture, embedding and transforming reclaimed cultural and personal materials, while writing remains a fundamental aspect of his practice. Though perceived as distinct disciplines, the artist nevertheless emphasizes the link between shaping material and writing or editing text, using gestures of reduction or stripping away.