Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards

About

Vanessa Jackson, on first reading, appears to take the most formal approach to painting, but her use of geometry and its three-dimensional function deny the supposed flatness of modernist space. Vanessa’s work explores the contradiction of a fully realised space at once pertaining to logic and completeness and uncertainty and unease. The ornamental and optical play of colour acts to both confirm and confuse our sense of perception, constantly shifting between concrete presence and the ambiguity of space beyond our grasp. Vanessa destabilises the very 'ground' we most desire, a sense of security and belonging. 

Education

1971 – 1975 
St Martin’s School of Art

1975 – 1978 
Royal College of Art

Select Exhibitions/Awards

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 UpTownDancing 13 Pedestrian Crossings, commissioned by HOLBA and the Royal Academy of Arts, London

2014 Rough Cut and Faceted, Marcelle Joseph Projects, London
Throwing Shapes, wall painting, Café Gallery Projects, Southwark
2008 Vertigo in Three Parts, wall painting, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2015 Simply Painting, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness
Distressed Geometry, Kunstraum Baden, Switzerland
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 Abstract Geometry, Rook & Raven Gallery, London

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

J. Paul Getty Museum, California
Royal College of Art Collection, London
The National Museum and Arts Gallery in Botswana

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