Artist - Jacqui White​

The Michaelmas 2015 exhibition in the Community Room of the Church of Lazarus by artist Jacqui White depicts that bridging of polarities. As Jacqui explains this is an alchemical process. She says that both a strong acid and a strong alkali will eat away at anything that is submersed in them, but mix the two together in the correct proportions and the resultant liquid is harmless, even friendly. Her own particular mixture turns blue. Each of her works represents the bridging of opposites or polarities. An attempt to describe this for each work may be found in the caption to each work.

Jacqui White explaining her work

MAN as the bridge between Light and Dark. Light and Dark are depicted as collage to show that they are two separate worlds.

The clown. The polarity is stark. The clown elicits mirth but is himself anything buy joyful, in fact he is bleeding. (Sold)

A punk rocker and his angle. He is looking 3/4 on while his profile is a red shadow. Where is his attention?

These are clowns. What is the polarity in a clown? This is titled "Who?"

This is titled "Sanguinity"

Just a few lines and he owns the space. Entitled "Choler"

Blue and orange are complementary colours. Bridging them properly adds vibrancy to the work.

The title is "Endurance"

A depiction of the poem by South African poet Ingrid Jonker "Spoken From The Wound In My Side". The mouth is dumb but the wound speaks.