Jacky Lloyd was born in South Africa and grew up in Johannesburg.
She is principally a sculptor in stone, with a back-ground training and career in jewellery manufacture and design.
Lloyd graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a BA (FA) in 1985. (Juweliersware en Metaalnywerheids Ontwerp). Lecturers included Dieter Dill and Daniel Kruger.
Subsequent part-time practical courses have included Traditional Jewellery Enamelling Techniques (1994), Platinum Skills Course (1999), Sculpture/wood carving (1997) and stone carving (2005-6) with Severino Bracchialarghe, an Italian stone sculptor practicing briefly in Paarl, South Africa.
Lloyd opened her own independent studio in 1986 (to 1997) at The Castle Breweries in Woodstock, Cape Town, as a studio-artist jeweller.
From 1989-97 Lloyd lectured part time at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Jewellery manufacture, design and enamelling techniques. While teaching, she joined a wood carving sculpture course (1997) at the school.
A 6 month (relief position) high school art teaching post in 2005 was a career watershed, following which Lloyd moved decisively toward sculpture. South African Resistance art, familiar from the 80’s and 90’s, was by then a formal module in the school curriculum. Approaching this as a historical subject was revealing in how little of what had been fought for was in effect achieved after 1994 Democratic transition, particularly for women. This became the impetus for a sustaining subject matter as a sculptor.
The relationship of jewellery to sculpture is conceptual rather than technical, so that the transition was instinctual, while preferring the challenges of wider intellectual and spatial possibilities that sculpture provides.
Lloyd’s sculpture achieved immediate recognition when her works were selected for Spier Contemporary 2007 and Spier Contemporary 2010 exhibitions. Two of these works were purchased for the Hollard Contemporary Art Collection.
In 2018 Lloyd moved out of the city to build a dedicated space in which to carve and lift heavy stone. Her jewellery practice continues on a secondary level, while since 2020 sculpture work has become her primary focus.
EXHIBITIONS
Sculpture and Jewellery exhibitions _Selected Group Shows and solo show:
2023 Season Exhibition (group) , ISart Gallery, Dorp Street Stellenbosch
2023 IN-MOTION: Art of The Space Age (group) Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet
2023 Slow Intimacy (group) , ISart Gallery, Dorp Street Stellenbosch
2022 Solo Studios Riebeek Kasteel participating artist
2022 Achromatica (group) , RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
2022 New Translations From The Mothership (solo) , ISart Gallery, Dorp Street Stellenbosch
2021 Emergence, ISart Gallery, Dorp Street Stellenbosch. Stellenbosch University alumni and staff.
2020 No Holds Barred, RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
2009/10 Spier Contemporary 2010, Stellenbosch
2007/8 Spier Contemporary 2007, Stellenbosch
2006-11 Veronica Anderson Jewellery, Johannesburg. Various collections including
Bespoke Pt Commitment Rings 2007
Fabulous Rings 2007
The Water Collection 2008
Stoned 2011
Size Matters 2011
Summertime 2008
2004 ‘40 YEARS Artists and Designers from the University of Stellenbosch’. Sasol Art Museum, Art Faculty retrospective
2003/4 ‘ De Beers Shining Lights Awards’, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Germany(Inhorgenta), London.
1999 ‘Low Lustre High Art/Goldsmithing Today’, Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town.
1999 ‘Low Lustre High Art/Goldsmithing Today’, Ntsikana Gallery_Monument Building, Makhanda(Grahamstown)
1998 ‘FNB Craft Vita Now’, Crafts Council South Africa, William Fehr Gallery, Cape Town
1997 ‘FNB Craft Vita Now’, Crafts Council South Africa, Tswane (Pretoria)
1996 ‘Jewellery’, Association of Visual Arts, Bellville
1996 ‘Designer Jewellers of South Africa’, Society For Designers in South Africa, Sandton Cvic Centre
1996 ‘Experimental Goldsmiths’, Natale Labia Museum, Cape Town
1995 ‘Jewellers of the Western Cape’, University Stellenbosch Art Gallery (now GUS), Stellenbosch
1988 Cassirer Fine Art, Hong Kong
1988 Cassirer Fine Art, Christmas Exhibition, Johannesburg
1987 Cassirer Fine Art, Christmas Exhibition, Johannesburg
1986 ‘Creative Goldsmiths’ , Association of Visual Arts, Worcester
1986 ‘ Wearable Art’, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
1985 ‘ Sierade/Jewellery, Daniel Kruger and Students of the Department of Creative Arts University Stellenbosch’.
Association Visual Arts, Cape Town
COLLECTIONS
sculpture in bold format text.
• Spier Arts Trust Collection, Spier Estate,Stellenbosch. ('Longing Boat'; 'Moonlit Skins')
• Hollard Collection Contemporary Art/Spier Art Collection , Villa Arcadia, Johannesburg ('Sacrifice'; 'Descent'))
• (Jewelery and Box/Containers in various private Local and International Collections , including Harry Oppenheimer Jade Collection )
PUBLICATIONS
sculpture in bold format text.
• SPIER CONTEMPORARY 2007 catalogue book
• SPIER CONTEMPORARY 2010 catalogue book
• CRAFT SOUTH AFRICA , by Susan Sellschop, Wendy Goldblatt, Doreen Hemp
Pan Macmillan Press, 2002, Pages 148,149,150, Contemporary Jewellery.
• ART TIMES February 2022, article by Hendrik Theron on solo exhibition New Translations From The Mothership
AWARDS
2008 S A Mint Coin Design, Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape/ Natura Series
First place. 99.9% gold coin in production.
2004 De Beers Shining Lights Awards . Finalist.
1997 FNB Craft Vita Now. Merit Award (jewellery)
1989 Style Design Competition_Clocks . First place, collaboration with John Sweetnam architect
MISCELANEOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020/23 Guide, artist studio walkabout, ‘Solo Studios’, Riebeek Kasteel
2003 Member judging panel, Art Deco Society SA, student jewellery design competition
2002 Member of judging panel for Timo Smuts Prize, Stellenbosch University
Art Department annual prize (all disciplines).
TEACHING
2005 School Art teacher, Rustenburg Girls High School, 6 month relief teaching post: practical, theory and history.
1989-97 Various part time and full time posts, Ruth Prowse School of Art: jewellery techniques, enamelling techniques, design.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
1992-99 Trained with and worked for Life Line South Africa as a part time volunteer, after hours as a councillor-training group facilitator; community course group facilitator, and as a telephone councillor. Active 1992 to 1999