About Me
Jacob Weeks (b. 1989, South East England) is a visual artist working primarily with photography and is the co-founder of Void Collective.
Weeks’s work centres on themes of absence, loss, and mourning, exploring how these experiences become entwined with emotional attachments to the material world. Drawing from personal history and lived experience, his practice reflects upon transitional phases—moments of change, uncertainty, and becoming—where identity and memory exist in a state of flux.
Through a subtle interplay of light and shadow, he invites the viewer into spaces shaped as much by what is no longer present as by what remains. His images speak quietly yet powerfully to the universal human experience of moving through grief, memory, and transformation.
Weeks has exhibited widely across the UK and Europe. His work has been selected by leading institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Journal of Photography, and FORMAT Festival. He has received numerous accolades, including finalist positions for the Ingram Collection’s Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, the Sunny Art Prize, and most recently the Visual Art Open. He has also been selected for the London Group Open and the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.
Alongside his creative practice, Weeks works as a tutor and programme director, leading an Art and Design course and supporting young people in their creative development. As both an educator and a father, he is deeply committed to inspiring the next generation of artists and to creating space for emerging voices to thrive.
Awards
Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2025
Sunny Art Prize 2022 Finalist
Winner of British Journal of Photography Edition 365
Sustainability First Art Prize Finalist
The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Finalist
Exhibitions
2025 | Linden Hall Studio, Winter exhibition
2025 | ING Discerning Eye 2025, Mall Galleries, London
2025 | London Group Open Exhibiton 2025, Copeland Gallery, London
2025 | Visual Art Open Finalist Exhibiton, Minster Building, London
2025 | Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition
2024 | Linden Hall Studio, Winter exhibition
2024 | Fourth Wall Gallery, Egg-xhibition
2023 | Folkestone Art Gallery, Winter group show
2023 | Der Grief, ‘Past and Present’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2021 | British Journal of Photography, Edition 365
2021 | Undisclosed Resource, online exhibition curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell
2021 | FORMAT21, CONTROL festival. Waves of Exposure
2020 | Being Human Exhibition, Being Human Festival, St. Mary’s University, London
2020 | Sustainability First Art Prize exhibition, Online
2020 | Float Magazine, Best of Quarantine, Online
2020 | Psychasthenia, Online Exhibition
2019 | Joseph Wales Studios, Margate . 'The Mourning After : Lost Objects'
2019 | 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield. 'Fronteer 2019'
2019 | Photographic Exploration Project, Berlin. 'Interior'
2019 | 44AD Artspace, Bath. 'Eighth Wonder'
2017 | The Beany, Canterbury. 'Here's looking at you'
2017 | Menier Gallery, London. 'Stimulus'
2017 | Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks. 'This is Tomorrow'
2017 | Chatham Dockyard, Chatham. 'This is Tomorrow'
2017 | Candid Arts Trust, London. ‘Salon des Refusés’
2017 | Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield. ‘Perception’
2016 | The Cello Factory, London. The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize.
2016 | Studio 24, Leeds. Paint by Number Issue 3 launch and exhibition
2013 | Georges House Gallery, Folkestone. 'Subset'
2013 | Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury. MA Final show
2012 | Pie Factory, Margate.
2011 | AM Gallery, Brighton.
2010 | Royal Star Arcade, Maidstone. Group exhibition
2009 | Secret World War Bunker, Exhibitor & Creator
2008 | Maidstone library, Maidstone.
Selected Press & Interviews
2021 | Working artist, Issue eight
2020 | Artists responding to… Issue four
2020 | The Mass ‘Niche’, November Issue
2020 | Art Hole Magazine '1' Magazine
2017 | Loosenart 'Imitation of Life' Book
2017 | Artnumber23 'Stimulus' Catalogue
2017 | Art Reveal Magazine issue 26
2017 | Float Magazine Portfolios
2016 | LandEscape Art Review Anniversary Edition
2016 | FSTOP Magazine issue 80
2016 | Paint By Number Issue 3
2016 | Floorr Magazine issue 6, interview
2016 | Average Art Magazine, October
Curation
2021 | Always present, Void Collective
2021 | Revolv Collective, Void Collective Takeover
2021 | Spectrum Photographic, Void Collective Takeover
2020 | Void Charity Printsale
2020 | The New Black, Void Collective
2020 | Lost in Isolation, Void Collective
2020 | Co-founded Void Collective
2020 | New Visions, Mister Gallery
Education
MA Fine Art Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
BA (Hons) Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone