Jacqui Chapman was born in South Africa. She grew up with expansive untamed wilderness and unexplored places. From a five acre garden of her childhood, moving on to the farmland, to game reserves and summers spent on the wild coast. These were the places that shaped her connection with the land she knew and loved and gave her a deeply rooted African spirit.
Leaving South Africa proved a difficult transition, a loss which she admits seems impossible to let go of. This is why her work engages memory, the sensation of places that mean something to her. Reconnecting with the landscapes yet dealing with concepts of time and space, identity and displacement. Her work investigates the process of how we remember, translated into a personal metaphorical painterly language connecting a subconscious link to places from the past.
