Jacqueline Ennis-Cole is a London based writer, installation artist, poet, curator, analogue and digital photographer. Her neurodivergent practice maps the spaces between authority and authorship, corporate concealment, and creative imagination. Ennis Cole is a Ph.D. candidate at the Slade School of Art where she was awarded a University College London Ph.D. Research Opportunity Scholarship. Her research anchors on an intergenerational ethos of care, standing as a visual liturgy of human injustices and the mapping of fragile ecologies and their restoration. She graduated with MA distinctions, in Art History and Curation, Photography, and Drawing as well as earning an MSc in Anthropology of Childhood, Youth, and Education. Her ethnographic fieldwork on ‘communities of practice’ was carried out at Wimbledon School of Art, at the University of the Arts London.
She was selected as a guest curator for the group exhibitions Intersectional Matter: Waste, at the Photo/Frome - Festival of Photography in 2023 and for Intersectional Geographies: Extraction at the Martin Parr Foundation in 2022. She is a recipient of the Spread the Word Writing Commission Award for disabled writers in 2023. She presented a paper at Nottingham Contemporary gallery’s Language Matters Symposium 2023 and served as a Concerned Photography Conference panellist on Magazines and Books organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Photographers’ Gallery 2021. She received a Poem Brut Commission Award in 2019 and was nominated as Photo Selector for the fLIP Magazine no.56: Global Warming Winter issue 2023, where she also wrote her debut review of the 2023 Barbican exhibition Re/Sisters. She is a regular contributor to the WORMS arts magazine writing on transnational social and environmental justice matters. Ennis Cole released her first postcard box set publication, Here to Pick Up the Pieces, with Polite Publishers in 2023. She was a beneficiary of the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Award in 2021 and was long-listed for This Is Gender 2021 – Global Health 50/50 and was a MEAD Fellowship Award finalist in 2018. She is at present working on her first monograph from her Crude Extracts series, I Dream Black Forests Anew with Sunbursts of Red and Yellow.
Select group exhibitions include: Beneath Us, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome Photo Festival, UK (2023); Freedom, National Justice Museum, Nottingham, UK (2023); Beneath Us, Photofusion Salon/2021, selected by Emma Bowkett and Zelda Cheatle, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK (2021); Post – Industrialism, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy (2021); The Man And The Machine, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy (2020); Tracing Elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, UK (2020); Significant Colour, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (2020); Cities of Light Barcelona – Coexistence, The Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2019); Why Do It Together When You Can Do It Alone? After School – Collective Strategies with Hemera Collective, Lewisham Arthouse, UK (2019); Photofusion Salon/2019, selected by Dr. Lucy Soutter, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK (2019); LIP 31st Annual Exhibition, selected by Laura Noble Tom Hunter and Philip Grey, Espacio Gallery, UK (2019). A selection of Jacqueline Ennis Cole's works is in the University of the Arts London (UAL) Art Collection.