The Art of Staying Put
Jon Everall, Get Hastings
October 2025
Picked up by the contemporary gallery Alison Jacques, of London’s famed Cork Street at the young age of twenty-five, what’s the secret to her meteoric rise and success? Was she chaperoned and guided by well connected parents, hand held through art school and her career kickstarted through nepotism? “No, they’re not interested in art,” she offers dead pan. Expanding on this, she claims her dad’s interest in tropical plants and being a keen twitcher, are akin to the magpie qualities of her own practice. The laser focus, the sharp interest, the way he lives his life, is, she says, like an artist. […]