Later Works is London-based artist Jack Jubb’s first solo exhibition in the UK, featuring a newly commissioned series of sculptures and watercolours. The exhibition ambivalently acts as a fever dream of a British modernist in their decadent era or, alternatively, a 3D-printing hobbyist compulsively producing counterfeits. In his debut in sculpture, the artist draws on these dual roles, continuing his interest in themes of labour, reproduction, value, and mythmaking – this time through the lens of countercultural hobbyism and the legacy of British modernist sculpture.
Employing ‘the miniature’ as a device to interrogate the relationship between preparation and completion, scale and value, Jack Jubb utilises a model-maker or gamer hobbyist’s toolkit and aesthetic language: a household-scale 3D printer, a tablet, modelling software, and stereolithography. His work suggests that models occupy a conceptual space where they are not merely prototypes or stand-ins. In the artist’s framing, the miniature discards the linear pathway between originals and derivatives, instead engaging in the quasi-antagonistic practice of counterfeiting. As counterfeits, they remain suspended, irreverent about someone’s or their own cultural legacy, value inscription mechanisms, and the mystique of the final work, all while nodding to the allure of those legacies and their own participation in these mechanisms.
Later Works inhabits the in-between: a future withheld, a past slightly awry, and a present that deceives. The exhibition performs as its final form and as a knock-off display in preparation, a work-in-progress. Suggesting a state of incompletion that will not be resolved, the miniatures and their supports seem poised for transformation that never arrives.
Jack Jubb lives and works in London. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include 'Saturday Night Live', Edel Assanti, London, UK (2023); 'VEGAN', Spouse, Vienna, AT (2023); 'Half-Life', Stems Gallery, Brussels, BE (2023); 'The Empath', Carl Kostyal, Milan, IT (2022); and 'Viscous Cycle', The Residence Gallery, London, UK (2022). Selected group exhibitions include 'Encounters', Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK (2024); 'RAW', Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN (2022); 'Works on Paper on Fridges', Harkawik Gallery, New York, USA (2022); 'Memeplex', Seventeen Gallery, London, UK (2021); 'The future isn’t what it used to be', Moarain House (Rose Easton), London, UK (2021); and 'Halcyon on and on', Franz Kaka, Toronto, CAN (2021). Jubb holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
With support from the Foyle Foundation
