
Ray Jacobs
I create imaginative and powerful artworks with a variety of companies, performers and participatory groups, focusing on installative and site specific works using performance, film and digital media.
Inherent in my work is belief in the integrity and power of movement to create inspiring, transformative art; for the subtle and unspoken to be as powerful as the bold voice.
I aim to create movement and image which steps quietly into the human heart, bringing people in touch with their senses and the sensory world around them.
In 2007 I co-directed ‘Coming to my senses ’ for the OMH Café, Shrewsbury. This focuses attention on the beauty and artistry of people’s everyday hand movements. The three screen installation included images of people’s hands, text on cafe coasters and a sound track.
In residence with Arty Party Performance Group, I create site specific performances and digital media works. ‘I saw a girl’ won ‘best overall film’ at the Oska Bright film festival.
‘The remembrance path’ explores connections between place, bereavement and memory. Wren Miller and I used the bereavement experience of young Darwin to share thoughts, memories and experience with the public in Shrewsbury. We exhibit words and images from these shared walks during 2009.
