REALITY: Modern & Contemporary British Painting.
- Submitting institution
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Arts University Bournemouth, the
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Jackson_32062 Reality
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Walker Art Museum, Liverpool
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Jackson was selected to exhibit in 'Reality: Modern & Contemporary British Painting', held at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, in 2015. Amongst a distinguished cohort of British painters, that included Paula Rego, Alison Watt, Dexter Dalwood, John Keane, and Lucien Freud, Jackson was selected by peer review to show a number of recent works.
Jackson’s practice is centred on specific research questions relating to the significance and power of the painted image in the contemporary arena, namely how does painting respond to a world saturated with polychrome printed media and ephemeral digital images; what is its significance and its power in ‘the contemporary’?
Each work selected for the exhibition played a part in a discourse around revitalising the expressive potential of figuration by opening up the studio process and examining the development of the figurative mode as a resurgence of the ‘What is’ process in relation to the real.
The enquiry realised a number of outcomes, which included renewed confirmation of the emergence of a particular field of new figuration, a new realism, that has been developing in Britain for the last two decades. Jackson’s practice and the medium of painting draws on assemblage techniques to identify a contemporary culture which help reveal how contemporary identity is made up.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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