Jacqueline Rana Solo Exhibition
27th May – 5th June 2025. 10am-6pm.
|Nova Gallery
Private View: Tuesday 27th May, 6-9pm
Time & Location
27th May – 5th June 2025. 10am-6pm.
Nova Gallery
About the event
‘Dissimilate’
Works by Jacqueline Rana
Curated by Dr. Jaeyeon Choi
‘Dissimilate’ explores how we are shaped - by culture, memory, and the subtle patterns of social life. Referencing the structures of pattern-making and form, the exhibition uses painting and mixed media to reflect on the quiet forces that guide how we live, relate, and belong. By reconfiguring found materials, Dissimilate considers how inherited templates might be questioned, unsettled, or remade.
Artist
Jacqueline Rana is a painter and mixed media artist based in Brighton and London UK. Her expanded painting practice explores the sensation and experience of complex social bonds—how we are shaped by others, by history, and by unseen forces of influence. Drawing from a self-assembled counter-archive of found images, materials, and ephemera, her recent work turns to the relational dynamics of childhood play as a lens through which to examine social and cultural patterning. Through processes of layering, repetition, fragmentation, and formal disruption, she reflects on the invisible architectures that condition ways of being and relating to each other.
Jacqueline holds a BA Fine Art (painting) from Leeds Met, an MA (distinction) University of Brighton and studied Painting Year II at The Essential School of Painting (ESOP), London. She is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate Fine Art at UEL. Recent shows include Sorry about the Mess, 125 Shaftsbury Avenue, Mother of All. BOTH Gallery. In Out, Hive Curates, Gerry Raffles Sq, London. States of Exchange , Hypha Studios Stratford London. Art Matters, Art Pavilion, Mile End. She is a member of Centre for Creative & Cultural Practice (UEL CCP) a co-founder at BOTH Gallery and DFA Arts Exchange and works with Metagraph, an Arts Collective located on the Bristol Estate, Brighton. Her civically engaged practice includes work with Urbact EU (Active NGOs), Our Place Steering Group (Brighton Festival), ARTS Accelerating Transitions.
Insta: @jacqueline.rana