Hackson Jollock: The Line Learns to Breathe

At first encounter, the new monochrome work by Hackson Jollock appears almost evasive. Black lines wander across a white field with an air of studied indifference, looping, stuttering, accelerating, then hesitating as if the drawing were caught mid-thought and decided not to resolve itself for our benefit. There is no centre, no hierarchy, no obvious … Read more

New work: Hackson Jollock, Untitled (Interface Rapture No. 87)

by Zeleke Akpan At first encounter, this piece announces itself as a palimpsest of ecstatic refusal. Looping vectors of incandescent orange, imperial violet, and infrastructural blue collide and coalesce across a void-white ground that functions less as background than as metaphysical provocation. The marks, if one dares call them that, oscillate between urgency and indifference, … Read more

Interview with Hackson Jollock: Lines, Fury, and the Endless Loop of #64

Hackson Jollock is one of Britain’s most ferociously original visual artists,if not always the most serene. His canvases are an explosion of line and motion, electric with frustration, precision, and improvisation. His latest work, titled simply #64, is a tangle of looping, frenetic lines in indigo, copper, and blood red. It’s been hailed as both … Read more

In Defence of Digital Gesture: A Response to the Crankshaft ruderies

By Hackson Jollock I read Mr. Artimus Crankshaft’s review of my exhibition, Ctrl+Z My Soul, with a mix of weary amusement and cautious optimism , the latter arising from the hope that even the most reactionary voices might inadvertently signal that the work is, in fact, hitting a nerve. Crankshaft dismisses my canvases as “digital … Read more

Is Hackson Jollock the greatest artist ever?

Oh, the movement, the color, the sheer effervescence and joie de vivre. Hackson Jollock represents all that is magnificent in this late-capitalist millennium. Funded by the SAE to help push the envelope, Jollock is one of the artists mentioned in the Lavenham Art Society Gazette’s Hundred Artists under a Hundred living in Hounslow. Hackson has … Read more