Molly Jack is a conceptual artist working with sculpture, installation, text and new media. She works with the materiality of the social sphere, attempting to interrupt, conceal or play games with the rhythm of everyday life. In this way, she examines the dichotomy of intimacy and anonymity, exhibiting fragments of personal archives – from pages of her diary to other people’s shopping lists.

She creates processes that are detailed and obsessive, often following and mimicking the lives of strangers with forensic detail. Her work is vulnerable, voyeuristic and questions the ethical frameworks of working with people.
Growing up in a village in Aberdeenshire but living in cities for the last five years, she works with both urban and rural spaces.

She draws lines of communication between her past and future selves, between her and her family and between herself and strangers – always in search of ways to communicate through our culture of mediated images.
Molly’s work is characterised by a sense of portraiture: she has studied the engravings of lovers on trees, initiated a large-scale search for the recipient of a lost letter, invited strangers to declare their sins within a purpose-built confession box and explored the tapestry of human life through VHS installation. Her work therefore offers a reflection on the documented live moment and a range of human predicaments, including: memory, religion, family, nostalgia, loneliness, gender relations and love.