Jacob George Wilson (b.1999), the son of a plant mechanic and an office administrator, is a British artist-filmmaker and writer currently working out of Camberwell, London. Wilson's work focuses upon the inherent poetics concealed inside trivial and domestic circumstances. Wilson's work champions a more ill-defined and conceptual expression, dividing broad narratives into diverse and synchronous images, highlighting the dependency experience has on the interplay between multiple, shifting pieces of information. What motivates Wilson's work is his enduring obsession with authority and how values if left to be determined by someone else, can abandon an individual unresolved without any means to navigate ambiguity. Wilson's work is, therefore, an effort to regain his agency through applying the gesture of significance afforded to him under the title of artist. J.G.Wilson is a recent 2021 graduate of Moving Image at Brighton University and is currently an MA Student of Artists' Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

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Working outside the traditional parameters of film, Jacob- Geroge Wilson considers how art reflects the values that animate us and how video is the most modern means to decipher and discuss what contemporary circumstances define and bound individuals today. Low Low's Air-Raid, before and after congress (2022), is a multi-media installation, combining video with sculpture and found material, developed by the artist to engage with existing, de-poeticised affirmations of domestic and trivial objects and challenge them, illustrating how domestic activities and gestures become art through intention. The arrangement of the installation evokes the domestic scene of a suburban garden or a catalogue of confused, urban materials. At the centre of the space is Falling in Grass (2022), a video and sculpture piece which best exemplifies Jacob's engagement with how we reach concepts through symbols and how naivety and playfulness can distort perceived notions of what a trivial object such as a clothesline can accomplish. Accompanying Falling in Grass are two video works; Whale hunting (2022), projected into the far corner of the space, and Sorry, I'll call you again tomorrow (2022), located on the CRT monitor in the first left-hand corner. In addition, there is also a collection of found materials titled Notes from the ground, exhibited on the first right-hand wall. Together the works, developed over the year, constitute Low low's air-raid, before and after congress - A sentimental consideration of how the trivial objects we define have come to define us.

The mountains and the aeroplanes of September last year (2022)
Multi-channel video installation, duration: 20 min.

In his work The mountains and the aeroplanes of September last year (2022), Jacob appropriates found footage material of varying kinds to render a scene informed by personal experience, historical references such as Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon (1888), and the life and poetry of Hart Crane. The piece is a three-channel installation, consisting of two CRT monitors and a single projection, assembling a singular image of a man sleeping at the foot of a mountain that develops as the screens reveal new details, symbols, and narratives over time. The piece expresses the artist's belief that understanding is relational, that art is what we reason, and that time has no dominion over experience. [Quote] "The mountains and the aeroplanes of September last year are not just that, they are the mountains and the aeroplanes of every year of my life to come."

Shown as part of the Group Exhibition: Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions, A.P.T Gallery 17-27 March 2022

Group Exhibition: Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions, A.P.T Gallery 17-27 March 2022
Panel Discussion: 24-March 2022, 5pm
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 21-26 July 2022