Born in 1996, Jack Moyse is based in Swansea, Wales, and has an MA in photography from Plymouth College of Art. He holds a position at Teesside University, lecturing and leading their MA in Photography. His practice focuses on the lived disabled experience, providing insight into and exposure for those marginalised in the UK, and the oppressive systems they encounter.
The welfare state is failing. An acute risk of sounding neoliberal when making such statements is an irony not lost. Social securities systemic failings are the concern. Perspectives of a society hellbent on exploiting disabled people as a cost cutting exercise are of no interest.
Support mechanisms have been fettled away. Populism manipulates tales that portray benefit claimants as scroungers stealing from the pockets of taxpayers. Thus, the system corrodes, crippling any strength it has to provide aid. Insistence that benefits are a bloated expense is in reality an equivocation exposing the skewed rhetoric on the perception of its dependents.
Using the photographs strained relationship to the real, the constructions that make up these assaults and cuts are accessed. The incorporeal structures that society has determined to provide support are revealed to be decrepit.
Jack Moyse in conversation with Tudor Rhys Etchells at Cardiff Made 26.04.2025