Jan Giliam

A network is a mode of inquiry for me, a way to explore my position as an artist through the connections between people and things. Through collaborations with schools, cultural institutions and fellow artists, I weave a living web, mediating through aesthetics and digital interaction, inviting others to take part in the process. I seek to open culture through concepts, conversations and shared sensibilities, while my own visual language, my drawings, paintings and glass works, give shape and substance to these encounters. My work becomes a membrane, a place where gestures, images and voices converge, one side personal and tactile, the other open and communicative..