"Works by the artist Jacob Clayton tap into many philosophies and reflections. Material and photographic exploration manifest in pieces that are materially resolved yet propose many questions. With a defining set of symbols and visual language, works may at first exude obscurity, but on closer inspection provide many departures into understanding Clayton’s view on human cultures.

Manifold iterations in physical and printed form bridge analogue photography and mixed-media sculpture practices. Work with the camera derives an exhilaration from viewfinder projections, taking images as taking objects in parallel, developing a collection from which to reduce new work.

Art objects that transform found domestic items and other material through deconstruction and rebuilding, branded with words repurposed, become the subject of documentation, reflecting in his output the cyclical systems and chain reactions that Clayton muses on in life/research.

Claytons Work is a playful transmission of imitations and reductions which explore material and technological potentials, referencing, among other things, sci-fi novels. In a practice dense with such intricate image loopholes, expansive allusions and recurrent entropy, the influence of American folk art might surprise, but underlying Clayton’s practice is a distillation of experience, with a comparably unconstrained approach to making art." - Tom Heatley (2020).