Jacqueline Huskisson

Calgary, Canada

Jacqueline Huskisson’s work explores the delicate interplay between memory, emotion, and identity through mixed media and collage. Her art is a journey through fragments-layering personal history, found objects, and visual elements into evocative compositions. Each piece feels like a reconstruction of a dream, inviting viewers to explore what is remembered, forgotten, and reimagined. By embracing imperfection and juxtaposition, Huskisson’s work offers a reflection on the fluid nature of identity and the narratives of our past. Her art challenges us to look closer, finding meaning in both absence and presence, and the embrace the beauty of the unresolved.

Jacqueline Huskisson is a visual artist from Calgary, Alberta Canada and currently living between Calgary and Berlin, Germany. In 2011 she received a BFA in print media from the Alberta College of Art and Design (Now AU Arts.) In 2017 she received an MFA in studio arts from the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland. She works primarily with printmaking, painting, comics, and media arts. She considers herself a “comic” artist. Majority of her practice relies on narratives, abstract or linear. She focuses on telling narratives of the human body, illness, and the human form’s relation to its surroundings.

In the spring of 2025, Jacqueline Huskisson was one of three artists selected for Muster Point. Her installation, LABYRINTH, explored the labyrinth as a symbol of pilgrimage, a path toward salvation or enlightenment. Traditionally used for contemplation, labyrinths invite participants to relinquish their sense of direction and disengage from the external world, fostering inner stillness and reflection.

For Muster Point 2025, LABYRINTH was presented as an immersive installation addressing themes of place, transition, and otherness through the lens of labyrinthine mythology. Upon entering the space, viewers encountered a parallel world activated by neon light, ambient soundscapes, and monstrous figures. As visitors navigated the maze, narrative elements gradually unfolded, constructing an abstract, personalized story.

The installation engaged with mythological monsters especially from Western traditions, as metaphors for the “other.” Historically, this label has been imposed on LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, disabled people, women, BIPOC communities, and others marginalized by dominant cultural narratives. Huskisson drew inspiration from the figure of the Minotaur and related myths to reclaim these symbols as expressions of identity and resilience. In LABYRINTH, the Minotaur served as a potent symbol of mortality and existential anxiety, recurring throughout literature and pop culture as a call to confront our fears and embrace the complexity of human nature.

The exhibition invited audiences to reflect on their personal and collective narratives. Using the metaphor of the labyrinth and its monsters, Huskisson offered a space for exploring identity, transformation, and the shared human condition. Visitors were left with a final question as they exited the installation: Will you be the same when you emerge?

You can watch her installation video here.