Jacqueline Moulton is an artist and curator best known over the past decade for her evocative installations that blend history, mystery, and the everyday. She was an arts lecturer at a local college for nearly 30 years before retiring to focus on her artistic practice and her two children. Known for her meticulous attention to detail and her ability to weave together disparate elements into cohesive narratives, Jacqueline's work benefits from extended observation. The more of your own curiosity and experiences you bring to her work, the more you get out of it. Her work gently invite viewers to explore the intersections of past and present, reality and fiction, through carefully curated objects, sounds, and visual elements. Despite her prolific creative output over the past five decades, her online presence remains subdued, with much of her work undocumented. This could be attributed to her private nature and, perhaps, a deliberate avoidance of ‘the digital.’ Special dispensation has kindly been granted by Jacqueline to host this work here, recognising the Shoreswood Archive’s commitment to recontextualising the everyday and exploring its role in shaping perception and memory. Placed alongside works with similar intent, this setting aligns with the reflective, educational nature of her practice.

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"Deskscapes" is an audio-visual installation first presented over 10 years ago. This rendition of the work has been meticulously reconstructed from Jacqueline's original drawings, notes, and a vast collection of objects and sounds generously provided by her close associates and family. The installation consists of four intricately designed wooden desks, each serving as a canvas that tells the imagined stories of their anonymous owners. Adorned with a curated array of seemingly ordinary objects—including glass vials, wooden beads, snippets of text, small toys, stones and shells, and scrap metal—the desks invite viewers to unravel the hidden narratives within. No explicit details about the owners of these desks are provided. At the heart of each desk lies a weathered radio speaker emitting an ambient soundscape. These soundscapes blend recorded sounds of objects and spaces with snippets of rearranged music, underpinned and punctuated by radio static. Within this blended soundscape, many of the mysteries and nuances of the narrative can be unpicked.

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"Deskscapes" challenges conventional storytelling by presenting narratives that are open to interpretation and discovery. This meticulous reconstruction for the Shoreswood Archives ensures that each desk retains its original allure and enigmatic charm, offering visitors a glimpse into the intricate worlds Jacqueline has created from fragments of history and imagination.