Jade Montserrat

Jade Montserrat is a research-led artist and writer based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. She makes visual and live artworks that explore race and the vulnerabilities of bodies, the tactile and sensory qualities of language and challenge the structures of care in institutions.[1]

Early life and education

Born in 1981 in Scarborough, she studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 2000 to 2003 and gained a MA in Drawing at Norwich University School of Art and Design, from 2008 to 2010, and is currently a Stuart Hall PhD scholar at the Institute of Black Atlantic Research, School of Art, Design and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire starting in 2017[2] on 'Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project'.

Career

Montserrat works collaboratively with artist and performance collectives including Network 11, Press Room, the Conway Cohort, Rainbow Tribe: Affectionate Movement and Ecology of Care Bureau. Recent selected screenings, performances and presentations include: Arnolfini, and Spike Island, Bristol (2017), Alison Jacques Gallery (2017) and Princeton University (2016).

She is the recipient of the Jerwood Drawing Prize student award (2017) for ‘No Need for Clothing’, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark.

Montserrat has been a visiting artist at the University of Brighton, Camberwell College of Arts, Goldsmith, Leeds Beckett, and visiting lecturer at the University of Reading, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and King's College.

In February 2020 Montserrat became the first artist to be commissioned under the Future Collect project managed by INIVA, a scheme to support museums and galleries to commission artists of African and/or Asian descent.[3]

Exhibitions

Montserrat's touring exhibition 'Instituting Care' was part of the artist's practice-led PHD 'Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project'. The work consisted of a rustic pod - constructed from wood, hung with foil and blankets and filled with the artist's own books- sitting within a gallery space in which the walls have been entirely covered with words and phrases drawn in charcoal. Montserrat stated that 'charcoal serves to coerce the audience into "becoming with drawing" - duplicity engineered, the carbon is already in the air, and absorption is inevitable.' The words and phrases drawn on the wall were drawn from the artist's bibliography of texts for her thesis. The artist drew directly onto the gallery walls over a period of days - part of a durational performance called No Need for Clothing.[4]

Selected works

References
  1. Society, Contemporary Art (2020-01-30). "Jade Montserrat". Contemporary Art Society. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. "Jade Montserrat". Stuart Hall Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  3. "Iniva commissions first Future Collect artist | Museums Association". www.museumsassociation.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  4. Velvick, Lauren (June 2020). "Lockdown". Art Monthly. No. 437: 10.
  5. "Jade Montserrat: Instituting Care". Absolutely Cultured. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  6. "the Bluecoat >> Jade Montserrat: Instituting Care". www.thebluecoat.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  7. "International Performance Art Festival". Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  8. "Revue". SPILL Festival. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  9. "In Memory of Sarah Reed". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  10. "4717 live-stream". LUX. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  11. "The Last Place They Thought Of - ICA Philadelphia". Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA. 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  12. "Artist Talk: Jade Montserrat – Castlefield Gallery". Retrieved 2020-03-05.

Further reading
  • COCCYX LIVE WORKS vol. 6| Centrale Fies | SUPERCONTINENT² – 3 parte 21 July 2018
  • “What will white culture have to do?” paper presented at “What should white culture do? Race, Art and Politics” symposium, Royal College of Art
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