Vanessa Jackson
Vanessa Jackson RA (born 1953 Peaslake, Surrey) is a British painter who has done notable wall installation paintings. She was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2015.[1]
Education and career
Jackson studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art.
In 1985 and 1990, she undertook the Yaddo Residency in to New York. Jackson has an extensive career teaching fine art. She was Head of Painting at Winchester School of Art from 1988 to 1997, MA and research tutor at the Royal College of Art, and senior tutor at the Royal Academy Schools from 1998 to 2013. She is currently a member of the fine art faculty at the British School at Rome and is the Chair of the Edwin Austin Abbey Council, which provides awards for painters.[2]
In 1998-9, Jackson was included in the South Bank Centre's exhibition The Presence of Painting. Her oil on canvas painting So Much Depends was a prizewinner at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 1993-4.[3]
Jackson was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts 2 September 2015.[4]
Exhibitions
=== Solo exhibitions[5] =2017 A Light Here, Tintype Gallery* 2014 Rough Cut and Faceted, Marcelle Joseph Projects
- 2013 North House Gallery, Paintings and Prints, Manningtree.
- 2012 Studio 1.1 Gallery. 30 Day OlympiAINT.
- 2008 Vertigo in Three Parts, Wall Painting, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.
- 2010 Throwing Shapes, Wall Painting, CPG Café Gallery Southwark Park.
- 2006 Short Circuit since '79, survey show, Poussin Gallery, London.
- 2005 Studio1.1.Gallery, London.
- 2005 Keith Talent Gallery, London.
- 2003 Art Inc, Chelsea, NYC.
- 2002 InsideSpace Gallery, London.
- 1999 North House Gallery, Manningtree.
- 1994 The Eagle Gallery, London.
- 1992 Goodsway Gallery (Cubitt), London.
- 1990 The Winchester Gallery, Winchester.
- 1986 Gotham Book-Mart Gallery, New York.
- 1984 Vortex Gallery, London.
- 1981 AIR Gallery, London.
- 1978 Cottisloe Theatre, National Theatre, London.
Two-person exhibitions
- 2004 Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, with John Dougill.
- 1997 Harriet Green Gallery, London, with John Crossley.
- 1986 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, with Hamish McLennan.
Group exhibitions (selected starting in 2010)
- 2017 Women Artists in Conversation - with Gluck, Fine Art Society
- 2017 Surface Cutting curated by Eillen Cooper, Royal Academy of Arts
- 2016 Spore curated by Tom Owen and Grant Foster, Kennington Residency
- 2016 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- 2015 Infero, at Lloyds Club
- 2015 - 2016 Simply Painting, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Jim Mooney (touring to Thurso Art Gallery & The Peacock Arts Centre, Aberdeen)
- 2015 Distressed Geometry, Baden Kunstraum/Zurich, Switzerland
- 2015 O-N-T-O-L-O-G-Y ARTHOUSE1, London with Celia Cook and Brandon Taylor (with Sonia Delauney and Sol Le Witt)
- 2015 Royal Academy Summer Show 2015, invited by Michael Craig-Martin, Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2014 Abstract Geometry, Rook & Raven Gallery, with Vanessa Hodgkinson and Rupert Newman
- 2014 The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London
- 2013 2Q13, Women Artists, Women Collectors, Lloyds Club, curated by Marcelle Joseph Projects.
- 2013 The Perfect Death/Horizons, Lion and Lamb Gallery, organised by Phill Allen and VJ.
- 2013 AMERIKA, What America means to non Americans, Camberwell Space, curated by Alasdair Duncan.
- 2013 "Even Clouds..." Studio 1.1.
- 2013 The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London
- 2012 Ha Ha What Does This Represent, Standpoint Gallery, curated by Katrina Blannin and Francesca Simon, catalogue with essay by David Ryan.
- 2012 The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London
- 2011 Zig Zag curated by Katrina Blannin, Charlie Dutton Gallery.
- 2011 The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London
- 2010 "Throwing Shapes" curated by Rebecca Geldard, Coleman Gallery, London.
- 2010 The Royal Academy Summer Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London
Personal life
Jackson's husband was, the painter, John Dougill (1934 - 2015).[6][7]
References
- "Royal Academy of Arts Academicians". Royal Academy Website. Royal Academy. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- "Vanessa Jackson | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945, Volume 1, A to L. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 816.
- "Royal Academy of Arts Academicians". Royal Academy Website. Royal Academy. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- "Vanessa Jackson Biography". Vanessa Jackson. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- "Obituary - John Dougill". John Dougill. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
- Craddock, Sacha (2015-09-16). "John Dougill obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
External links
- 3 paintings by or after Vanessa Jackson at the Art UK site
- Two paintings by Vanessa Jackson in the New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge