Melanie Jackson

Hot Flash is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, animation and drawing by Melanie Jackson, that brings together two bodies of recent work, Rouge Flambé and Spekyng Rybawdy, in a pair of installations across Exeter Phoenix’s two gallery spaces. Together, they present us with an assembly of conceptual nomads, drawn from medieval sculptures of dissent; to incendiary (colonial) trading histories; to a fascination with technoscience’s visions and chimeras.

Throughout, Jackson presents a world of absurd and inventive beings, rich with humour, dissent, subversion, delight, hilarity, titillation and surprise. Her work opens up an important lineage of visual methods and vocabularies of resistance, and ways of imagining alternative power structures for self determination, as well as challenging ways such images may be used to uphold violences of control and exclusion.

The exhibition has been supported by the Royal College of Art and the University of Plymouth.

Opening: Saturday 15th February, 3-5pm
Show runs: 15th February - 12th April, free
Mon – Sat, 10.30am – 5.30pm

Artist’s Talk: Sat 22d Mar, 12.00pm, free (booking required).
Join Melanie Jackson for an informal discussion with Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.

Exeter Phoenix
Gandy St, Exeter
EX4 3LS