About the Artist
Jacqueline M Byrne is an Irish visual artist based on the Dorset coast, UK. Working across installation, assemblage sculpture, painting, film and land-based interventions, her practice explores the intersection of environment, memory and material process. Rooted in the rural and coastal landscape where she lives, Byrne responds both to site and to lived experience, engaging natural and reclaimed materials — ash, wood, soil, glass and organic residue — alongside constructed forms and immersive spatial arrangements. Environmental forces such as fire, weathering and seasonal change sometimes operate as collaborators; elsewhere, structure, balance and formal composition assert control. Across these approaches, her work examines tensions between vulnerability and resilience, fragmentation and cohesion, presence and disappearance.
Across bodies of work including Plant Ash, Cut Down – Built Up, Walks Boxes, Outside the Lines and Lost – A Journey Through the Fragile Mind, Byrne moves between ephemeral interventions and materially resolved installations. Some works are intentionally relinquished to ecological cycles; others are carefully assembled, immersive or formally composed. Documentation, object and spatial experience coexist within her practice.
Byrne completed an MA in Fine Art with the Open College of the Arts (UCA) in 2019. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is published in International Contemporary Artists Books (2015 & 2016). She is a member of Artwey CIC, Dorset Visual Arts (Salon Collective), Arts Territory Exchange and Visual Artists Ireland.
Instagram: @jacquelinembyrne
Email: jacquibyrne@btinternet.com
Tel: +44 (0)1305 871279
Selected Exhibitions
A Stitch in Time
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019–2020; reopened 2021)
International triennial exhibition presenting works developed through Arts Territory Exchange collaborations.
Lost – A Journey Through the Fragile Mind
Lighthouse Main Gallery, Poole, UK (2019–2020)
Large-scale immersive installation combining film, suspended fragments and shadow.
Un-boxing
Arts Territory Exchange Touring Exhibition (UK, France, USA, 2022–2023)
Presentation of Footprints, originally created for the Earth Action Climate Art Show, California.
PROCESS
Lighthouse, Poole, UK (2022)
Salon Collective exhibition examining the material and structural investigations behind Cut Down – Built Up.
Earth Action Climate Art Show
University of California, Berkeley, USA (2018)
Collaborative ash-based work responding to environmental change.
Plant Ash
The Engine Room, Poundbury, Dorset, UK (2018)
Exhibition of works from the ash imprint series exploring agricultural process and residue.
Duodecimal MA Fine Art Exhibition
Civic Centre, Barnsley, UK (2019)
Postgraduate exhibition presenting Lost – A Journey Through the Fragile Mind.
The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2017)
Ash-panel bookmarks placed within the exhibition’s honesty shop, extending the work through dispersal.
Ongoing Practice
Alongside exhibited collections, Byrne continues to develop long-term bodies of work including Walks Boxes, Ephemeral Captured, Seed, and site-responsive environmental interventions. These projects explore memory, landscape, ecological cycles and the material trace of human presence.
Her work is published in International Contemporary Artists Books (2015 & 2016).
Enquiries
For exhibition, commission or acquisition enquiries:
jacquibyrne@btinternet.com
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